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Akamai vs HUMAN Security

Akamai sells cloud computing, security and content delivery products. HUMAN Security sells the Human Defense Platform, which provides precise decisions to detect and disrupt sophisticated threats and to protect the customer journey. CISO Tribune files both under Bot and abuse management. 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 HUMAN Security: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
AkamaiAkamai sells cloud computing, security and content delivery products.akamai.comHUMAN SecurityHUMAN Security sells the Human Defense Platform, which provides precise decisions to detect and disrupt sophisticated threats and to protect the customer journey.humansecurity.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.
  • Human Defense Platform[3][5]Provides decisions to detect and disrupt sophisticated threats across the customer journey.
  • Ad Integrity Suite[3][6]Brings IVT, brand safety, and viewability intelligence together.
  • Brand Safety[6][7]Brand safety for digital advertising, offered within the Advertising Protection Package.
Categories
Headquarters
Not stated on its pagesNew York, United States
Founded
Not stated on its pagesNot stated on its pages
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]
  • July 7, 2026HUMAN Security announced that its Satori team identified and disrupted a connected TV device spoofing operation called NewsJunkie.[17]
  • March 26, 2026HUMAN Security announced the findings of its 2026 State of AI Traffic & Cyberthreat Benchmark Report.[16]
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: listed, seen November 5, 2026[18]
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.From its own pages, HUMAN Security sells mainly to brands, agencies, publishers and platforms in digital advertising, and to online retailers. The company says global organizations across industries use its client-side protection. HUMAN Security also addresses online merchants that must comply with PCI DSS requirements for payment page browser scripts. Retail media networks are named as a setting for its ad fraud protection. Marketing and commerce teams are named as the audience for its AI traffic visibility offer.
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November 6, 2026November 9, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Akamai and HUMAN Security are both filed under Bot and abuse management.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Akamai's primary category is WAF and WAAP; HUMAN Security's is Bot and abuse management.
  • Akamai is also filed under DDoS protection and Microsegmentation. HUMAN Security is also filed under Fraud prevention.
  • Akamai lists App & API Protector, Bot Manager, Prolexic, Firewall for AI, Edge DNS and 2 more. HUMAN Security lists Human Defense Platform, Ad Integrity Suite and Brand Safety.
  • HUMAN Security is headquartered in New York, United States.

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: HUMAN Security

What Human Defense Platform does[3][5]
The Human Defense Platform provides precise decisions to detect and disrupt sophisticated threats. HUMAN says its Decision Engine examines 2,500+ signals per interaction. Signals from across the customer journey are analyzed by 400+ algorithms and adaptive machine-learning models.
What Ad Integrity Suite does[3][6]
Ad Integrity Suite is part of HUMAN's Advertising Protection Package. HUMAN brings IVT, brand safety, and viewability intelligence together to help brands, agencies, and platforms measure media quality and qualify supply.
What Brand Safety does[6][7]
Brand Safety is part of HUMAN's Advertising Protection Package. The package is designed to maximize trust in the ad tech ecosystem.

Questions about Akamai and HUMAN Security

What do Akamai and HUMAN Security sell?
Akamai sells App & API Protector, Bot Manager, Prolexic, Firewall for AI, Edge DNS and 2 more. HUMAN Security sells Human Defense Platform, Ad Integrity Suite and Brand Safety.
Are Akamai and HUMAN Security in the same category?
They share Bot and abuse management. Akamai's primary category is WAF and WAAP and HUMAN Security's is Bot and abuse management.
Where are Akamai and HUMAN Security headquartered?
HUMAN Security is headquartered in New York, United States.
Who are Akamai and HUMAN Security sold to?
From its own pages, Akamai sells security for enterprise AI apps and LLMs through Firewall for AI. From its own pages, HUMAN Security sells mainly to brands, agencies, publishers and platforms in digital advertising, and to online retailers.
What have Akamai and HUMAN Security announced recently?
October 27, 2026: Akamai launched Akamai Inference and Akamai Agent Sandbox, two AI stack products for its cloud platform. July 7, 2026: HUMAN Security announced that its Satori team identified and disrupted a connected TV device spoofing operation called NewsJunkie.

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

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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

HUMAN Security full record

  1. [1]humansecurity.comHUMAN Security · humansecurity.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Privacy policyHUMAN Security · humansecurity.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]HUMAN SecurityHUMAN Security · undated page, accessed October 25, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]MediaGuard Reviews & Product Details - G2G2 · undated page, accessed October 25, 2026 · Tier C
  5. [5]The Human Defense Platform | HUMAN SecurityHUMAN Security · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Ad Integrity Suite - HUMAN SecurityHUMAN Security · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Brand Safety | Human SecurityHUMAN Security · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Ad Quality Defense for Digital Advertising | Human SecurityHUMAN Security · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Click Fraud | HUMAN SecurityHUMAN Security · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Agentic Commerce Security - Monitor & Control AI Agents | HUMAN SecurityHUMAN Security · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Agentic Visibility | HUMAN SecurityHUMAN Security · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Package Plans - HUMAN SecurityHUMAN Security · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Client-Side Security | HUMAN SecurityHUMAN Security · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Simplify PCI DSS Compliance with HUMAN Client-Side DefenseHUMAN Security · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  15. [15]E-commerce Cybersecurity Services | HUMAN SecurityHUMAN Security · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  16. [16]HUMAN Security’s 2026 State of AI Traffic & Cyberthreat Benchmark Report Signals a New Internet Era: Automation Growth Now Outpaces HumansHUMAN Security · published March 26, 2026 · Tier A
  17. [17]HUMAN Security Disrupts CTV Device Spoofing Operation “NewsJunkie”HUMAN Security · published July 7, 2026 · Tier A
  18. [18]HUMAN Security Reviews, Ratings & Features 2026 | Gartner Peer InsightsGartner Peer Insights · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier C

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