CAMBRIDGE,
Mass., Dec. 8,
2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai Technologies, Inc.
(NASDAQ: AKAM), the world's largest and most trusted cloud delivery
platform, today announced that it was among the select companies
that Forrester invited to participate in: The Forrester Wave™: DDoS
Mitigation Solutions, Q4 2017 evaluation. In this evaluation,
Akamai was cited as a Leader in DDoS Mitigation
Solutions.
According to the report, the distributed denial of
services (DDoS) mitigation solution market is growing because
S&R (security and risk) professionals understand that DDoS
attacks are a threat to their digital business. Forrester's
research has found that having a DDoS mitigation solution in place
is a best practice to protect internet-facing websites,
applications, and infrastructure.
"Akamai has historically demonstrated strong leadership in
the DDoS protection market," said Josh
Shaul, Vice President of Web Security, Akamai. "We have been
protecting customers from large and sophisticated DDoS attacks for
nearly two decades, introduced the first purpose-built DDoS
protection solution in the cloud, and have continued
to grow the most expansive DDoS mitigation platform in
the world that has mitigated some of the largest attacks seen
on the Internet - including a record-setting 623 Gbps attack in
September 2016."
The Forrester Wave report states that, "Akamai received
favorable feedback on its ability to detect new attack types while
yielding few false positives. Reference customers remarked on the
company's responsiveness, expertise, and ability to immediately
stop attacks."
In the Current Offering category, Akamai received the
highest scores possible in eight criteria, including
"Professional Services", "Service Delivery", and Threat
Intelligence". In addition, Akamai received the top scores possible
in the Strategy category in the "Development and technical
staffing", as well as the "Account management staffing" criterion –
the only evaluated company to receive the top score possible in the
latter criterion.
The report also states that, "DDoS attacks originate all
over the world. Cloud-based services need scrubbing capacity close
to the origin in order to stop attacks before they affect the
network." Akamai also received the highest scores possible in the
"Scrubbing centers" and "Security operations centers (SOCs)"
criteria, within the current offering category.
Akamai's scrubbing capacity exceeds 70 Tbps across
its CDN (Kona), DDoS scrubbing (Prolexic), and authoritative DNS
(Fast DNS) platforms. As part of Akamai's capacity planning
process, the company expects to continue to invest in growing its
platforms with a goal of continuing to be able to readily mitigate
the largest known attacks which are currently in the 1 Tbps
range.
Akamai maintains close proximity to origins of attack
traffic through the Akamai Intelligent Platform, which
has widespread distribution with Edge servers in over 2,400 data
centers, 1,300 cities, and 133 countries. Akamai received the
highest scores possible in the "Latency" and "Mitigation Capacity"
criteria.
"We believe Akamai's position as a leader in the Forrester
Wave™: DDoS Mitigation Solutions is not only the result of our
nearly two decades of superior DDoS protection services and
expertise, but also our customer-driven approach to remain at the
cutting edge of what is needed today – and our propensity to share
our vision and innovation with our customers in terms of how we
intend to protect them in the future," concluded Shaul.
Akamai also received the report's top score possible in
the "Planned Enhancements" criterion in the Strategy
category.
About Akamai
As the world's
largest and most trusted cloud delivery platform, Akamai makes it
easier for its customers to provide the best and most secure
digital experiences on any device, anytime, anywhere. Akamai's
massively distributed platform is unparalleled in scale with over
200,000 servers across 130 countries, giving customers superior
performance and threat protection. Akamai's portfolio of web
and mobile performance, cloud security, enterprise access, and
video delivery solutions are supported by exceptional customer
service and 24/7 monitoring. To learn why the top financial
institutions, e-commerce leaders, media & entertainment
providers, and government organizations trust Akamai please
visit www.akamai.com, blogs.akamai.com,
or @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 with respect to security solutions plans. 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, failure of the DDoS protection
services market to grow as expected, failure of Akamai services to
operate as expected or to address intended market needs, a failure
of Akamai's network infrastructure, and other factors that are
discussed in Akamai's Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports
on Form 10-Q, and other documents periodically filed with the
SEC.
Contacts:
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Tim
Whitman
Tom Barth
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Media
Relations Investor
Relations
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617-444-3019 617-274-7130
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twhitman@akamai.com
tbarth@akamai.com
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