CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 7, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai Technologies,
Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) today unveiled both a new product, Web
Application Protector, and important new capabilities in its
existing Kona Site Defender solution. Together, the new
product and enhanced capabilities are intended to provide online
businesses with a choice of tools that can be used to defend
against an ever‑changing threat landscape. Web Application
Protector is designed to provide customers with low-touch and
virtually maintenance-free protection from DDoS and web application
attacks. The enhancements in Kona Site Defender are focused on
providing greater protection for attacks targeted at Application
Programming Interfaces (APIs)
Doing business on the web is inherently dangerous. Organizations
face the risk of DDoS attacks that can render their web sites and
applications unavailable, leading to loss of business and damage to
reputation. Application layer attacks may lead to theft or
destruction of customer or corporate data, creating significant
difficulties for the business. Configuring and maintaining a Web
Application Firewall to protect against these attacks can be
difficult, time-consuming, and expensive. As a result, and despite
the overwhelmingly apparent need for having effective web security
strategies in place, many organizations continue to leave their web
sites and applications exposed to attack. Even companies that
believe they have deployed sufficient web security solutions may
expose APIs to drive web and native mobile applications that are
vulnerable to DDoS and parameter-based attacks.
The introduction of Web Application Protector makes available
important protection for web properties against attacks, without
requiring increasingly scarce security personnel or expensive
security services to configure or maintain protection. Web
Application Protector includes rules that are updated continuously
by Akamai to protect customer sites without requiring customer
intervention or approval.
Further, as APIs deliver an increasing percentage of Internet
traffic, and are a crucial component of delivering native mobile
applications, Akamai has bolstered its flagship web security
solution, Kona Site Defender, with new API protections. These new
capabilities are designed to protect individual APIs against
exploits of known vulnerabilities such as SQL injection as well as
Denial of Service by an excessive rate of calls and slow POSTs.
Kona Site Defender offers an additional layer of protection for
APIs with a positive security model this is designed to easily
identify and block any abnormal access that may be attempting to
exfiltrate data or otherwise cause harm or havoc. For security
professionals who want to analyze security events generated on
Akamai platform and correlate them with security events generated
from other sources in their enterprise security information and
event management (SIEM) systems, Kona Site Defender now features
SIEM integration. This integration is offered as either an out of
the box integration with major SIEM solutions or via an open
API.
One organization protecting their business with Akamai is
LiveChat, an online customer service software provider. According
to Maciej Malesa the company's CIO,
"Akamai's approach to web security is, in a nutshell, extremely
well thought out. From the underlying platform, to the
capabilities, to the analytics, Akamai's Web Security Solutions
give me what I need to keep our web sites and applications safe and
accessible for our
users."
Specific features and capabilities in the new Web Application
Protector include:
Application Layer Protections: The Akamai Threat Research
team automatically updates application firewall "protection groups"
which eliminates the need for customers to manage individual rules.
New protection capabilities will be added without requiring
configuration changes. Core protections against SQLi, XSS, RFI,
LFI, CMDi attacks are included.
DDoS Protections: The solution is implemented
as a reverse web-proxy that will automatically drop all
non-HTTP and HTTPS traffic regardless of volume (at peak the Akamai
Intelligent Platform has carried over 46 Tbps of traffic).
Additional application layer rate controls, slow POST protection,
and DoS protection group controls round out the DDoS protection
capabilities.
Custom Rules: Web Application Protector allows customers
to deploy up to 10 custom rules, providing the flexibility to
address any application specific issues that can benefit from
cloud-based protections.
Designed for Self-Service – Turnkey solution designed for
ease of use provides the ability for most customers to fully manage
the deployment and ongoing protection themselves without any
dedicated resources.
"Change is the only constant in the threat landscape, and anyone
doing business on the web needs to be prepared to adjust," stated
Josh Shaul, vice president, Web
Security Product Management, Akamai. "Our Web Security
Solutions are designed specifically to give customers and partners
the tools they need to protect their web sites and applications
from the myriad threats facing them every day."
About Akamai
As the global leader in Content Delivery
Network (CDN) services, Akamai makes the Internet fast, reliable
and secure for its customers. The company's advanced web
performance, mobile performance, cloud security and media delivery
solutions are revolutionizing how businesses optimize consumer,
enterprise and entertainment experiences for any device, anywhere.
To learn how Akamai solutions and its team of Internet experts are
helping businesses move faster forward, please visit
www.akamai.com or blogs.akamai.com, and follow @Akamai on
Twitter.
Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act
This release contains information about
future expectations, plans and prospects of Akamai's management
that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe
harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform
Act of 1995, including statements about future business plans and
opportunities. Actual results may differ materially from those
indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of
various important factors including, but not limited to, a failure
of Akamai's offerings or functionalities to operate as expected, a
lack of market acceptance of such service offerings and
functionalities, and other factors that are discussed in the
Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-
Q, and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
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SOURCE Akamai Technologies, Inc.