Akamai Enterprise Application Access provides secure and seamless application access by eliminating public IP risks and integrating SSO capabilities. It supports global authentication and simplifies management across platforms.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| Akamai Enterprise Application Access | 2.4% |
| Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange Platform | 12.8% |
| Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks | 10.1% |
| Other | 74.7% |
Akamai Enterprise Application Access has provided a positive return on investment for the company.
Users have reported that Akamai Enterprise Application Access is stable and they have not experienced any performance issues.
Akamai Enterprise Application Access facilitates secure, adaptive control over applications with features like agentless simplicity and seamless scalability. It offers global coverage and ease of management through its consoles and LCSD responders, ensuring stable access by removing public IP threats. Organizations benefit from enterprise-grade protection through integrations with services like Gmail or Yahoo, streamlining authentication on a global scale. Deployment options include cloud or on-premise, enhancing application security with features such as WAF, content-caching, and VPN, which eliminates the need for open firewalls. However, improvements in cloud integration and pricing models could enhance user satisfaction.
What are the main features of Akamai Enterprise Application Access?In industries like finance, technology, and healthcare, Akamai Enterprise Application Access is often implemented to provide centralized authentication and secure access management. By supporting multi-cloud environments and offering cloud-based deployment, it enhances infrastructure flexibility and security, making it a preferred choice for organizations aiming to protect sensitive applications across diverse environments.
Akamai Enterprise Application Access was previously known as Soha.
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| Author info | Rating | Review Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Platform Manager at Globe Telecom | 4.5 | We use Akamai Enterprise Application Access for centralized authentication, valuing its SSO and auto-scaling features. Despite being expensive, it enhances user creation. Alternatives like Cloudflare were considered mainly due to pricing, but Akamai offers robust authentication. |
| Cloud Architecture Consultant at Metaage | 5.0 | We utilize Akamai Enterprise Application Access as a cloud perimeter and VPN solution, eliminating the need for on-premises devices to manage traffic. It's stable and convenient, but combining two agents into one would enhance user comfort. |
| Technical Management Director at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees | 5.0 | I rate Akamai EAA 10/10. It's simple, agentless, scalable, offers global coverage, and has a great enterprise cost model. While I desire a better cloud transition and a more modern GUI, it's a highly effective solution. |
| Presales Consultant Cybersecurity at Zones Corporate Solutions | 4.0 | I find Application Access stable and scalable, offering valuable enterprise tech protection with a good ROI. Setup is not challenging, but Akamai should provide more technical enablement sessions, despite decent support. |
Neutral
Our company uses the solution as a cloud perimeter and VPN. We don't need to use on-premises devices to open firewalls to inbound or outbound traffic.
The solution is very convenient and stable because you don't have to worry about attacks to public IPs or public networks.
The solution has two agents so should combine its enterprise application and security access into one agent. It is more comfortable for users if they don't have to install two agents.
I have been using the solution for one year.
The solution is very stable with no issues.
The solution is scalable because it is on the cloud. The Akamai server is used to provide service for the solution.
I have not needed technical support. I feel very comfortable implementing and using the EA solution.
The setup is very easy because you just need one private gateway or network to add an account and install the solution.
We implement the solution for customers. We just deployed for 1,000 users with no issues.
The license can be shared based on the number of active users. If you have 5,000 users but only 1,000 active users at one time, then you buy a license for 1,000 users.
I recommend the solution and rate it a ten out of ten.
We use Akamai Enterprise Application Access by customizing their DCS services to provide authentication. Additionally, we use it to bring WAF and content-caching capability.
Akamai Enterprise Application Access can be either on the cloud or on-premise. You can use it on the cloud to the applications. We provide the services. It's the on-premise solution, but we provide cloud services with the on-premise capability that we have. That's the next step that we're working on, to bring that solution to a cloud service provider (CSP).
The capability of Akamai Enterprise Application Access is what you're looking for, it's giving you the service that you're looking for. It's simple and doesn't use an agent. It uses LCSD responders, and they have a lot of services around the globe. That's the reason that we were very interested in using it because it has a lot of coverage. This is because it's under the GDS umbrella.
The simplicity and the console to bring in and register new applications. It's just really easy to manage. The integration is good and simple.
We need another approach to bring the solution to the cloud. In addition to Access Management, we would like to see if we can jump into Directories. I think ADs are going to go away and everything is going to be cloud-based and minimize the use of ADs because of the cost and some other dependencies to the cloud. Every time you buy AD it is more hardware, and everything's changing to software. The network's changing, the applications are changing, and for IT it is hard to keep up with it.
We have to have a solution towards as-a-service instead of buying more hardware and software licenses. There is culture and cost models change. If you provide enterprise services we have to stop telling the customers it's going to be perusers or the transactions. That's not good for the customers, It's good for the vendors. It's good, they're making money, but at the same time, you're pulling away from your customers. The more you keep having cost increases, the customer's going to look for another cheaper solution.
I have been using Akamai Enterprise Application Access for approximately five years.
We have not had any performance issue with the solution.
The solution is scalable. The capability, onboarding, migration are all scalable. The coverage is all over the world.
We have many access management services, and they have over 1,500 applications running.
We have different layers of support for our customers, such as levels one and two, but I still use their technicals support as the third layer. We have not had an issue with their support.
We used CA SiteMinder for 15 years before we started using Akamai Enterprise Application Access.
CA SiteMinder has a lot of agents, encryption, and development that we had to do in order to bring customers to the service. It was a legacy application or service, where it had to be changed to a new look and feel for customers.
The setup is not that complex. However, the GUI could improve and the customization could be more dynamic when it comes to the attraction of the way it looks, it looks basic. There should be more color or more of a dynamic image to the view of the console.
This is one of the only things I'm really criticizing them most of the time about because it's basic. For example, Adobe is showing colorful pages but not in this solution, it is just simple, flat colors, that they're not attractive to the customer, visually. They don't have the visual effect compared to other application services. However, the solution does what I want it to.
The price is great it is all-inclusive, they use an enterprise cost model. That's what we like compared to other users. This is one of the main attractions of Akamai Enterprise Application Access. It's already an enterprise cost model established with us for services.
There is a culture change that we have right now. Usually a lot of customers used to have Microsoft doing AD. We had to stay away from AD and agents when it comes to identity access management in order to simplify it and bring all the applications to the cloud or any services that need enterprise.
If someone wants to reach out to us to see how Akamai Enterprise Application Access work, they can reach out to me. The cost and the capability are great. It's new and that we probably have to do better advertising it. This is what I have to do because we have to advertise it better.
I rate Akamai Enterprise Application Access a ten out of ten.
Application Access is used to provide adaptive control over applications to ensure that they are proactively protected, multi-cloud flexibility, and monitoring of user locations.
Application Access's most valuable feature is the accessibility of enterprise tech protection.
The technical enablement sessions are quite limited, and Akamai could help by providing more of them.
I've been working with Application Access for over a year.
Application Access is stable.
Application Access is quite scalable, and the customer gets some flexibility wherein they can host some of the components on-prem.
Akamai's technical support is quite okay.
Positive
The initial setup isn't challenging so long as you have some understanding of how cloud hosting works. I estimate that implementation takes four to five weeks.
We used an in-house team.
We've had a good ROI from Application Access.
Licensing is based on user count.
I would rate Application Access as eight out of ten.
