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Akamai vs Elisity

Akamai sells cloud computing, security and content delivery products. Elisity sells identity-based microsegmentation for the network a customer already runs. CISO Tribune files both under Microsegmentation. This page sets the two records side by side: what each sells, where it is based, who owns and funds it, the customers it names and its recent news, each fact numbered to its source.

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Akamai vs Elisity: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
AkamaiAkamai sells cloud computing, security and content delivery products.akamai.comElisityElisity sells identity-based microsegmentation for the network a customer already runs.elisity.com
What it sells
  • App & API Protector[1][4]A web application firewall solution that identifies vulnerabilities and mitigates threats across web and API architectures.
  • Bot Manager[3][5][6]Detects bot traffic and mitigates malicious bots at the edge.
  • Prolexic[9]Akamai's DDoS protection platform.
  • Firewall for AI[8]Protects enterprise AI apps and LLMs from prompt injection, data exfiltration and toxic output.
  • Edge DNS[9]A DNS service built on Akamai's edge network.
  • Account Protector[6]A security solution that protects against account abuse across the lifecycle of an account.
  • Akamai Functions[3]An edge native serverless platform that runs globally.
  • Elisity Cloud Control Center[1]The cloud-delivered console for visibility, policy and reporting.
  • Elisity IdentityGraphCombines network observations with context from identity, endpoint, CMDB, IoT and cloud tools.
  • Elisity Intelligence[1]Proposes device classifications, Policy Groups and policies with the evidence behind each suggestion.
  • Elisity Virtual Edge[1]Connects a customer's network infrastructure to Cloud Control Center.
  • Elisity Assistant[1]Answers plain-language questions about devices, traffic and policies inside Cloud Control Center.
Categories
Headquarters
Not stated on its pagesSan Jose, United States[2]
Founded
Not stated on its pages2019[2]
Ownership and funding
Not stated on its pagesNot stated on its pages
Named customers
Not stated on its pagesNot stated on its pages
Recent news
  • October 27, 2026Akamai launched Akamai Inference and Akamai Agent Sandbox, two AI stack products for its cloud platform.[13]
  • July 2, 2026Akamai completed its acquisition of LayerX, a secure enterprise browser provider.[14]
  • November 4, 2026Elisity announced that IonQ's acquisition of the company has closed.[10]
  • October 12, 2026Elisity announced it had entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by IonQ.[11]
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: listed, seen November 10, 2026[15]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
  • G2: Not stated on its pages
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
Who it fits
From its own pages, Akamai sells security for enterprise AI apps and LLMs through Firewall for AI. App & API Protector Hybrid is sold for on-prem, hybrid cloud and multi-CDN environments. Akamai describes organizations that keep some on-prem DNS nameservers and GSLBs for administrative or compliance requirements. Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is applied by an organization in the financial industry working toward Zero Trust. A water utility secured critical infrastructure with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation.Elisity also addresses manufacturers with connected IT and OT networks, and enterprises with users, devices and workloads to contain. Financial institutions that connect branch services, corporate systems and acquired environments are another group Elisity describes. Elisity positions its enforcement as running through supported network infrastructure rather than software agents on the assets being protected.
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November 6, 2026September 27, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Akamai and Elisity are both filed under Microsegmentation.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Akamai's primary category is WAF and WAAP; Elisity's is Microsegmentation.
  • Akamai is also filed under DDoS protection and Bot and abuse management. Elisity is also filed under Network access control.
  • Akamai lists App & API Protector, Bot Manager, Prolexic, Firewall for AI, Edge DNS and 2 more. Elisity lists Elisity Cloud Control Center, Elisity IdentityGraph, Elisity Intelligence, Elisity Virtual Edge and Elisity Assistant.
  • Elisity is headquartered in San Jose, United States.
  • Elisity was founded in 2019.

What it sells: Akamai

What App & API Protector does[1][4]
App & API Protector Hybrid extends security off the Akamai platform for on-prem, hybrid cloud and multi-CDN environments. Akamai's all-in-one approach consolidates WAF, API security, bot management and DDoS protection in a single solution. An open API is available for automating App & API Protector configuration changes in a CI/CD pipeline.
What Bot Manager does[3][5][6]
Bot Manager generates a score from 0 (human) to 100 (bot) and looks at all anomalies, starting with the very first request. Bot Manager provides visualization and reporting tools that show the impact various types of bots have on a business and its infrastructure.
What Prolexic does[9]
Prolexic is Akamai's DDoS protection platform. Edge DNS and Shield NS53 can be used with Prolexic to protect digital infrastructure across all layers, ports and protocols.
What Firewall for AI does[8]
Firewall for AI runs at the edge to inspect prompts and responses before they reach AI apps. Akamai Firewall for AI is model-agnostic and works with any LLM-based or AI-driven application. Incoming prompts are analyzed to detect and block threats like prompt injection attacks, jailbreaks and policy violations. Deployment options include the Akamai edge or a REST API.
What Edge DNS does[9]
Akamai Shield NS53 is a reverse proxy solution that protects on-prem and hybrid DNS infrastructure. Edge DNS provides an availability SLA with guaranteed 100% uptime.
What Account Protector does[6]
Account Protector uses a combination of user, device, IP, network, bot and reputation indicators to create a user risk score for each UUID. Block, alert and allow actions are performed based on the user risk score. Account Protector includes all of Akamai Bot Manager's capabilities. User information can be passed to a SIEM using the Akamai SIEM Integration connector.
What Akamai Functions does[3]
Rust, Go, JavaScript, Python and other languages that compile to WebAssembly can be used. Applications are packaged and deployed using open tooling like Spin and SpinKube, locally, in Kubernetes or directly to the edge. Bot Manager can be combined with Akamai Functions so that identified bots are routed to a function that generates bot-specific responses.

What it sells: Elisity

What Elisity Cloud Control Center does[1]
Elisity Cloud Control Center is the cloud-delivered console for visibility, policy and reporting. Each customer has a dedicated instance. Elisity uses AWS to host Cloud Control Center.
What Elisity IdentityGraph does
Elisity IdentityGraph combines network observations with context from identity, endpoint, CMDB, IoT and cloud tools to build one record per asset that policy can use. It brings AWS and Azure workloads in alongside users and devices.
What Elisity Intelligence does[1]
Elisity Intelligence proposes device classifications, Policy Groups and policies with the evidence behind each suggestion. Suggested policies start in simulation, and administrators decide what moves to enforcement. Elisity flags Allow policies that have carried no traffic over a review window.
What Elisity Virtual Edge does[1]
The Elisity Virtual Edge connects a customer's network infrastructure to Cloud Control Center. It sits outside the data path and programs policy into the data plane.
What Elisity Assistant does[1]
The Elisity Assistant answers plain-language questions about devices, traffic and policies inside Cloud Control Center. It uses live data from the customer's tenant and is scoped to each user's permissions.

Questions about Akamai and Elisity

What do Akamai and Elisity sell?
Akamai sells App & API Protector, Bot Manager, Prolexic, Firewall for AI, Edge DNS and 2 more. Elisity sells Elisity Cloud Control Center, Elisity IdentityGraph, Elisity Intelligence, Elisity Virtual Edge and Elisity Assistant.
Are Akamai and Elisity in the same category?
They share Microsegmentation. Akamai's primary category is WAF and WAAP and Elisity's is Microsegmentation.
Where are Akamai and Elisity headquartered?
Elisity is headquartered in San Jose, United States.
When were Akamai and Elisity founded?
Elisity was founded in 2019.
Who are Akamai and Elisity sold to?
From its own pages, Akamai sells security for enterprise AI apps and LLMs through Firewall for AI. Elisity also addresses manufacturers with connected IT and OT networks, and enterprises with users, devices and workloads to contain.
What have Akamai and Elisity announced recently?
October 27, 2026: Akamai launched Akamai Inference and Akamai Agent Sandbox, two AI stack products for its cloud platform. November 4, 2026: Elisity announced that IonQ's acquisition of the company has closed.

About Akamai

Akamai sells cloud computing, security and content delivery products. Akamai Cloud has added more GPU capacity, an in-memory database and Kubernetes updates. Akamai Inference and Akamai Agent Sandbox extend Akamai Cloud to serve, run and secure AI applications and agents from core to edge. Akamai Functions is an edge native serverless platform that runs globally.[2][3]

App & API Protector defends at the edge and blocks large-scale attacks, and App & API Protector Hybrid extends WAF defense to multicloud and on-prem environments. Akamai's all-in-one approach consolidates WAF, API security, bot management and DDoS protection in a single solution. Akamai Adaptive Security Engine delivers real-time, automated protection across edge, cloud and hybrid environments. The Behavioral DDoS Engine provides automated defense against volumetric attacks. An open API is available for automating App & API Protector configuration changes in a CI/CD pipeline. SMU turns to Akamai App & API Protector and Dynamic Site Accelerator for online shopping. Grupo Xcaret relies on Akamai for app and API protection, bot mitigation and site delivery.[4]

Akamai Bot Manager detects bot traffic, mitigates malicious bots at the edge and manages good bots. Bot Manager generates a score from 0 (human) to 100 (bot) and looks at all anomalies, starting with the very first request. Bot Manager provides visualization and reporting tools that show the impact various types of bots have on a business and its infrastructure. Account Protector is a security solution designed to protect against account abuse across the lifecycle of an account, using machine learning and a dataset of risk and trust indicators. Account Protector uses a combination of user, device, IP, network, bot and reputation indicators to create a user risk score for each UUID. Account Protector includes all of Akamai Bot Manager's capabilities.[5][6]

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is used to gain visibility across an environment and limit lateral movement. SBI Holdings is working to achieve Zero Trust with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation. A water utility secured critical infrastructure and protected essential services for 1.6 million people with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation. Samsung Life Insurance protects hundreds of applications and thousands of workload servers with Akamai.[2][7]

Akamai Firewall for AI protects enterprise AI apps and LLMs from prompt injection, data exfiltration and toxic output. Firewall for AI runs at the edge to inspect prompts and responses before they reach AI apps. Akamai Firewall for AI is model-agnostic and works with any LLM-based or AI-driven application. Edge DNS is built on Akamai's edge network. Akamai Shield NS53 is a reverse proxy solution that protects on-prem and hybrid DNS infrastructure. Edge DNS provides an availability SLA with guaranteed 100% uptime. Prolexic is Akamai's DDoS protection platform.[4][8][9]

NodeBalancers is a fully managed load balancing solution. NodeBalancers support TCP, HTTP and HTTPS load balancing via HTTP/1.1. CloudTest is a load testing platform. CloudTest is offered as a fully managed or self-service solution and supports websites, apps, APIs and CI/CD processes. Akamai Inference is a fully managed inference service for running AI models in production. Pay-per-token Serverless Inference and Dedicated Inference with reserved GPUs are available, separately or together. AI models are called through an OpenAI-compatible API while Akamai handles GPUs, serving, autoscaling and model lifecycle management.[3][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

Akamai on the record

Sources

Akamai full record

  1. [1]akamai.comAkamai · akamai.com · undated page, accessed November 6, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Cloud Computing, Security, Content Delivery (CDN) | AkamaiAkamai · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Akamai Functions | Serverless | WebAssembly | AkamaiAkamai · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]App & API Protector — Website Application Protection | AkamaiAkamai · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Bot Manager | Bot Detection, Protection, and Management | AkamaiAkamai · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Account Takeover and Identity Theft Protection | AkamaiAkamai · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Akamai Guardicore Segmentation for Hybrid Cloud | AkamaiAkamai · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Protection and Security for AI and LLM Applications | AkamaiAkamai · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]DNS security | Edge DNS | Shield NS53 | AkamaiAkamai · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]NodeBalancers | AkamaiAkamai · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]CloudTest | Real-Time Load Testing Tool | AkamaiAkamai · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Akamai Inference | AI Inference | AkamaiAkamai · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Akamai Launches AI Inference Service and Agent Execution Environment | AkamaiAkamai · published October 27, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Akamai Completes Acquisition of Secure Enterprise Browser Provider LayerX | AkamaiAkamai · published July 2, 2026 · Tier A
  15. [15]Akamai Cloud Computing Reviews & Product DetailsG2 · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier C

Elisity full record

  1. [1]Identity-based microsegmentation platform | ElisityElisity · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Elisity microsegmentation enables st lukes to secure 85 000 medical devices and unlocks clinical innovation in 46 days 302783594Elisity via PR Newswire · prnewswire.com · published May 28, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Identity-based microsegmentation | ElisityElisity · undated page, accessed October 24, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Supplemental Terms of Service for Data Protection | ElisityElisity · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Enterprise Microsegmentation | ElisityElisity · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Manufacturing and OT Microsegmentation | ElisityElisity · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Healthcare Microsegmentation for Medical Devices | ElisityElisity · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Financial Services Microsegmentation | ElisityElisity · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Zero Trust Microsegmentation | ElisityElisity · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Elisity joins IonQ to help customers move faster toward PQC readinessElisity · published November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Elisity announces acquisition by IonQ to advance Zero Trust for the quantum eraElisity · published October 12, 2026 · Tier A

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