Switch from Akamai. Name Your Price.
Get real browser-side protection, faster PCI DSS 4.0.1 evidence, and lower total cost with Source Defense.
Why switch from Akamai?
Akamai doesn’t know eSkimming – Source Defense does. We’re the number one name in eSkimming security trusted by the card associations, merchant acquirers, QSAs, and the worlds leading brands. The largest risks now occur inside the browser where customers enter data.
- Proven coverage for PCI 6.4.3 and 11.6.1
- Deploys in minutes through your tag manager
- Prevents eSkimming and data leakage in real time
- Validated by CoalFire, VikingCloud, and Verizon
What Akamai Misses
- No native control over third and fourth party scripts
- Gaps in PCI DSS 6.4.3 and 11.6.1 coverage
- Limited visibility into real session behavior
- Cost and complexity that do not address eSkimming
What you get with Source Defense
- Real time monitoring and policy control at the client side
- Automated inventory and authorization for every script
- Continuous tamper detection with alerting and evidence
- Fast deployment with minimal ongoing effort
Protect what Akamai cannot
See browser side risks in real time and give your team the evidence auditors expect.
| Source Defense Advantage | What Akamai Misses |
|---|---|
| Easy-to-use PCI dashboard and ability to view all data and views relevant for payment pages only | Only provides site-wide data, making it difficult to manage payment-page-specific information |
| Automatically recommends tried-and-tested policies based on Machine Learning using accumulated data from over a decade | Protection is reactive, not proactive, and requires manual application and individual testing before deploying to production |
| Auto-grouping of script files as services for easy management and identification of new behavior/ensuring integrity per service | Each script file is managed individually, making it difficult to manage and differentiate between behaviors of different services from the same vendor |
| Supported, providing a higher layer of protection without entirely blocking scripts | Does not support script isolation (sandboxing) |
| Simple deployment, not dependent on other client-side solutions in place | Dependent on other Akamai products for straightforward deployment, which can make implementation difficult if not bought as a bundle |
Make renewal simple
We will match or beat your current rate and deliver better protection. Switching includes waived setup fees, compliance validation reports, and a clear proof of value in under 48 hours.
“Deployment used a single tag in our tag manager. Development time was half a day and tuning took one day.”
About Source Defense
As a PCI Participating Organization and the pioneer in eSkimming security, Source Defense played a role in the development of new requirements for web security found in PCI DSS 4.0.
We’ve helped thousands of the world’s leading brands address these issues. We’ve also been educating merchants, QSAs, PSPs, eCommerce Platform providers and virtually every stakeholder in PCI compliance on the vulnerabilities in modern website design that make eSkimming attacks possible. We’ve made it our misison to provide guidance around ambiguity in the standard; advise on the pros and cons of approaches provided by the council and we recently launched a free assessment, monitoring and management solution for both merchants and their QSAs.
