Akamai led in this 2025 Security Efficacy Testing Report, outperforming AWS, Azure, and Cloudflare in critical metrics. Tested against 1,360+ realworld attacks, Akamai protected against OWASP Web and API Top 10 threats, achieved 100% resiliency, and passed 100% of legitimate traffic. With seamless protection across WAF, bot management and APIs, Akamai continues to set the standard in modern WAAP performance.
Download the testing report to see these key results:
- Top performer in security efficacy: Akamai outperformed Cloudflare by 40% and AWS by 109%.
- 100% OWASP coverage: Only Akamai protects against attacks from every OWASP Web and API Top 10 category.
- Bot and Layer 7 DDoS defense: Only Akamai delivered perfect scores across all advanced threat vectors.
- Zero false positives: Akamai passed 100% of legitimate user traffic with no customer friction.
- Protocol coverage: Akamai provided full protection for SOAP, REST, gRPC, and GraphQL; others missed or failed key protocols.
- Resilient by design: Akamai maintained 100% efficacy during failovers, DDoS spikes, and outages.
