Akamai identified as a WAF leader

Akamai Technologies recently announced that it was cited as a leader in The Forrester Wave – Web Application Firewalls, Q2 2018 evaluation. Akamai received the top-ranked scores in the Current Offering and Strategy categories among the select companies that Forrester invited to participate in the evaluation.

According to the report, malicious attackers are constantly aiming to breach applications, and WAFs are a key part of an effective, layered prevention strategy. Security pros require a WAF that will automatically protect web applications, stay ahead of zero-day attacks, and protect new application formats such as APIs and serverless architectures.

“Akamai has, for several years, been providing effective protection for many of the internet’s most valuable web sites and applications from exploitation by cyber criminals,” said Josh Shaul, Vice President of Web Security, Akamai. “I’m delighted to see the recognition as a leader from Forrester of, in our opinion, our market leading defensive capabilities and what we consider to be the independent validation that Akamai’s capabilities have significant differentiation from other vendors in the web application firewall space.”

The Forrester Wave report states that, “Even in a utopian world, where development teams remove all known vulnerabilities and weaknesses from their applications’ source code, threats will continue to exist in the form of zero-day attacks… Akamai offers very strong zero-day attack coverage and strong attack detection, with sound attack response and management UI.” In the Current Offering category, Akamai was the only vendor to receive the top score possible in the “Zero-day attacks” criterion.