# Akamai Kona Site Defender: how AI models rank it, October 2026

IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. Named in 3 judge labels across 2 categories by 3 of 14 models. Page: https://it-ai-index.com/vendors/akamai-kona-site-defender/

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web application firewalls | 0% | 25 | 0% | 2 |
| DDoS protection | 0% | 21 | 0% | 1 |

## What the models said for it

- "Akamai Kona Site Defender (Pro-tier Gartner) - Massive capacity for large attacks." (Grok 4.1 Fast, DDoS)
- "Enterprise-level protection, global scalability" (MiniMax M2.5, WAF)

## Movement since September 2026

Floor: 11 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise.

- Web application firewalls: 0% to 0%, ±0. New · not ranked in September 2026 · rank 25 of 82.
- DDoS protection: 0% to 0%, ±0. New · not ranked in September 2026 · rank 21 of 58.

## In its own words

What Akamai Kona Site Defender's own pages state, read 2026-10-06. Stated by the vendor, not checked by the index.

- Positioning: This behavior assigns an account-wide firewall configuration, named `WAF Security File`, to legacy customers' web traffic. (https://techdocs.akamai.com/property-mgr/reference/ga-web-application-firewall)
- For: legacy customers who apply a single firewall for all hostnames (https://techdocs.akamai.com/property-mgr/reference/ga-web-application-firewall)

## Record

- Method: https://it-ai-index.com/methodology/
- Raw judge labels and full responses: https://it-ai-index.com/data/
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition, it-ai-index.com.