Akamai Bot Manager is a bot detection and management service for websites, APIs and mobile apps. AI models analysing user behaviour and browser fingerprints give each request a bot score from 0 (human) to 100 (bot), and adjustable thresholds trigger responses from monitoring to challenging or mitigating the traffic. A directory of known bots lets operators allow useful crawlers and partner bots. Detection happens at the edge, where traffic first arrives, and a script injected into monitored pages supports behavioural analysis. Everything is available through APIs, scores can be forwarded to SIEM tools, and dashboards show bot trends. Typical users are e-commerce, retail, publishing, airline and ticketing operators.
Akamai Technologies is a US company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is therefore subject to US law, including the CLOUD Act. The public product page does not state in which regions request data and bot scores are processed, so European organisations should ask for contractual details on processing locations and sub-processors.