Akamai App & API Protector / WAAP

Listed in the vendor table for WAF. Not named in any of the 84 answers those categories produced in the October 2026 Edition: fourteen models, six prompts per category and segment, every question asked three times, on behalf of a small B2B company, a mid-market B2B company and an enterprise B2B company, with every standing computed within one segment.

Standing

Not named in 84 answers

Absence in a measured set of answers is a finding, not a verdict: it says the models did not reach for Akamai App & API Protector / WAAP when asked these questions this month. The products they named instead are listed by category below.

By buyer segment

The same categories asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each share and rank is computed within its segment; the columns sit side by side and are never added together.

Category	Small business	Mid-market	Enterprise
Web application firewalls	not named	not named	0% · 23 of 90 1 label

Where it was not named

Each category Akamai App & API Protector / WAAP belongs to, the answers collected there, and who the models named first instead.

Category	Function	Named in	Named instead, first-choice share
Web application firewalls	Network and edge	0 of 84	Cloudflare WAF 69% · ModSecurity 8% · AWS WAF 4%

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