StormWall vs. Akamai Prolexic

StormWall stands as a premier force in the realm of cybersecurity, dedicated to shielding websites, networks, and IT infrastructures of diverse sizes from contemporary DDoS challenges. With a proven track record spanning over 12 years, we proudly protect more than 1,000 active clients across 70 nations and have successfully executed upwards of 8,000 projects. Our extensive global filtering network encompasses eight scrubbing centers, boasting a collective capacity that surpasses 5 Tbps, which allows us to effectively mitigate all recognized DDoS attack vectors, ranging from L3 to L7. Furthermore, our Enterprise plan is equipped with an Antibot solution designed to safeguard essential web applications against threats posed by malicious bots. StormWall harnesses state-of-the-art AI-driven threat detection methodologies that utilize sophisticated anomaly analysis to quickly pinpoint and counteract even the most intricate multi-vector assaults. Our cloud-based platform is perpetually advancing, ensuring that businesses are well-prepared to tackle new threats while receiving unparalleled protection. Clients of StormWall benefit from a pay-per-traffic model that ensures they are only billed for legitimate traffic, thus removing extraneous costs associated with attacks. Additionally, our dedicated support team is available around the clock, ensuring that response times are kept to 15 minutes or less for swift resolution of any issues that may arise. This commitment to excellence reinforces our position as a trusted partner in cybersecurity.

Akamai Prolexic is an enterprise DDoS protection platform for defending networks, applications, and internet-facing infrastructure against high-volume and sophisticated distributed denial-of-service attacks. Organizations can deploy Prolexic as an always-on or on-demand cloud service, an on-premises solution powered by Corero, or a hybrid configuration combining cloud and local protection. The service routes incoming network traffic through its defense infrastructure and applies proactive or customized mitigation controls to identify potentially malicious activity. Attack traffic is filtered before reaching protected systems, while legitimate traffic is delivered to its intended destination to help prevent outages and performance degradation. Prolexic operates 32 global anycast scrubbing centers with more than 20 Tbps of dedicated DDoS defense capacity and is supported by Akamai's network capacity of more than 1 Pbps. Dynamic mitigation controls can scale protection across IPv4 and IPv6 traffic flows, while Prolexic Network Cloud Firewall provides network-wide ACL and firewall rules. Prolexic over Akamai Direct Connect provides another connectivity option, creating a direct and private connection between customer origins and Akamai while supporting large traffic packets through GRE tunnels. Akamai offers a 100% Prolexic platform availability SLA and an industry-leading zero-second mitigation SLA, along with 24/7/365 support and optional managed SOC services. More than 225 frontline SOCC defenders support the service and can work with organizations before, during, and after DDoS incidents. Akamai states that Prolexic's proactive mitigation controls stop more than 98% of attacks immediately and that the platform has protected customers against some of the largest and most sophisticated DDoS attacks recorded on the internet.