Proof points
- Proven coverage for PCI 6.4.3 and 11.6.1
- Proactive protection against eSkimming and data leakage from day 1
- Near-zero maintenance via automatic policies powered by over a decade of real-world threat intelligence
- Deploys in minutes through your tag manager
- Validated by CoalFire, VikingCloud, and Verizon
Used by leading global merchants and validated by top PCI assessors.
What Akamai Misses
- Reactive protection after an issue is found
- Manual policy assignment and script-by-script testing
- Potential gaps in PCI DSS 6.4.3 and 11.6.1 coverage
- High overhead due to messy, unstructured data
Akamai vs Source Defense
What Akamai Misses
Source Defense Advantage
Provides site-wide views, making it especially difficult to manage and generate evidence for payment-page-specific information
Easy-to-use PCI dashboard and ability to view all data and views relevant for payment pages only
Protection is reactive, not proactive; typically requiring manual policy selection, application, and validation to address newly observed issues.
Automatically enforced policies continuously, informed by over a decade of eSkimming and client-side focus and ongoing threat research
Each script file is managed individually, making it difficult to manage and differentiate between behaviors of different services from the same vendor
Auto-grouping of script files as services for easy management and identification of new behavior, ensuring integrity per service
Script isolation (sandboxing) is not supported
Script isolation is supported, providing a higher layer of protection without entirely blocking scripts
Dependent on other Akamai products for straightforward deployment, which can make implementation difficult if not bought as a bundle
Simple deployment, not dependent on other client-side solutions in place