The Akamai content delivery network (CDN) integrates with the Cequence Unified API Protection (UAP) platform to prevent account takeovers, API-based business logic abuse, and to analyze API transactions.

The Cequence UAP platform uses an ML-based approach to eliminate avenues of fraud caused by automated attacks targeted at web, mobile and API based applications. This document focuses on the SaaS based Cequence UAP solution which significantly reduces deployment overhead. On-premises Cequence UAP solutions are also available.

Traffic flow without Cequence UAP

Deployment options

Cequence supports integration with Akamai in two different Inline configurations and one Passive configuration. See the individual articles for details on deploying in those configurations.

Traffic flow with Cequence UAP - Inline Upstream Deployment

Traffic flow with Cequence UAP - Inline Hairpin Deployment

Traffic flow with Cequence UAP - Passive Deployment