CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 4, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai
Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the world's largest and most
trusted cloud delivery platform, has released new research in a
report titled, "The State of Media Security." Based on a survey of
200 U.S. media technology influencers and decision makers conducted
by BizTechInsights, the report aims to evaluate and better
understand how media companies are securing their online
properties. Among key findings is that slow site performance and
downtime is the number one security-related concern among media
leaders.
The report also takes a deep dive into the most common types of
attacks media organizations' over-the-top (OTT) properties are
facing, the measures currently in place to combat those attacks,
top security challenges and concerns, and how they are addressing
the management of bots – which can account for up to 60 percent of
website traffic according to Akamai observations. Notable findings
include:
- Top security concerns go beyond protecting content.
While premium video content protection ranked high among
respondents' top concern when it comes to securing their online
video business (23 percent), the most-cited concern was slow
performance or downtime due to DNS attacks (26 percent). Other
areas of high importance included DDoS mitigation (13 percent),
managing the impact of bot traffic (15 percent), and enterprise
application security (20 percent). As the media threat landscape
continues to shift, so too are priorities for protecting their OTT
businesses.
- Attack vectors span a broad spectrum. When asked which
type of security breaches their organization has recently
experienced, the top responses were SQL injections (23 percent),
DNS attacks (21 percent), pirated content (20 percent) and
distributed denial of services (DDoS) attacks (17 percent). Other
attacks reported included account hacks, website defacement and
cross-site scripting. Media entities are increasingly facing a
broad spectrum of attacks that go beyond content piracy and present
a real danger to the business.
- DDoS defenses lag behind other industries. Respondents
reported employing a broad range of technologies for addressing
DDoS attacks, including a network firewall in the data center (31
percent), a dedicated DDoS mitigation "scrubber" (26 percent), data
center-based intrusion prevention system (17 percent) and ISP-based
DDoS mitigation (11 percent). Most surprisingly, only 14 percent of
media organizations report using cloud-based content delivery
network (CDN) DDoS mitigation – a measure that has become widely
adopted in other industries.
- Inadequate bot traffic management measures persist. A
surprising one-third (33 percent) of survey respondents reported
that they employ a manual process of investigating logs and
blocking individual IP addresses to address bot traffic, while 45
percent of respondents leverage an existing firewall, and one
percent don't do anything at all. Only one in five respondents (22
percent) leverage a purpose-built bot management solution,
revealing widespread risk of bot-based threats like credential
exploitation to circumvent attacks or steal content.
- Substantial web application defenses employed – but room for
improvement exists. An overwhelming 84 percent of media
organizations report using a web application firewall (WAF) --
either cloud-based, on-premises or a combination of the two -- to
defend against web application attacks. Sixteen percent rely on
application security audits and testing alone.
"Media companies are online businesses, operating websites and
maintaining a wide variety of proprietary and sensitive
information. They need to broaden their perspective on security and
look closely at approaches like zero trust architectures and
protecting enterprise applications to secure their content along
with everything around it," said Dave
Lewis, senior global security advocate at Akamai. "Steps are
being taken to address common threats like DDoS, bots and web
application attacks, but almost none of the media influencers we
surveyed are very confident their organizations are protected,
indicating that businesses have a long way to go on the security
front. At a broader level, it's going to take media companies
coming together as a community to establish forums, industry
standards and closer connections with government bodies to move the
confidence needle and create a more security-aware and protected
industry across the board."
Akamai is exhibiting at the 2018 NAB Show April 9th through April 12th at the Las Vegas Convention Center, where its media
and security experts will share best practices and strategies for
protecting online properties. Akamai's Dave
Lewis is also presenting on "Data Breaches: Barbarians in
the Throne Room," as part of the NAB Broadcast Engineering and
Information Technology Conference on Saturday, April 7th.
To learn more about how Akamai can help protect your media
business, visit them at NAB booth SL3324 or arrange an appointment
through Akamai's NAB site.
Additional Information
To download "The State of Media
Security," please visit: http://bit.ly/2Cf5tdp.
About Akamai Technologies
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.
Contacts:
Chris
Nicholson
Tom Barth
Media
Relations
Investor
Relations
617-444-2987
617-274-7130
cnichols@akamai.com tbarth@akamai.com
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