CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai
Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the world's largest and most
trusted cloud delivery platform, today announced significant
enhancements that are designed to improve website, app, and network
security without compromising the performance of digital
applications. With these additions, Akamai's cloud delivery
platform is architected to serve as a crucial foundation for
digital business, with security and agile deployment capabilities
supporting digital transformation, next-generation network
architectures, and increasingly popular DevOps workflows.
Today's modern enterprise organization is operating within a
digital landscape full of risk and uncertainty. To maintain
productivity, security and competitive differentiation,
organizations must take steps to evolve their overarching network
architecture.
"Akamai has spent the last twenty years building and improving
the largest, most reliable cloud delivery infrastructure on the
market," said Ashutosh Kulkarni,
Senior Vice President & General Manager, Web Security and
Performance, Akamai. "We understand that our customers are
operating in an increasingly competitive, fast-moving digital
environment. To help them drive differentiation and value with
their customers, the Akamai platform is providing automation, tools
and technology to securely move more applications to the cloud,
streamline the delivery of seamless web and mobile experiences, and
improve developer agility without compromising security or quality
across hybrid environments."
New Enhancements to Combat Security Risks, Including Those
From Bots
As businesses move their digital operations to
the cloud, systems are exposed to the risk of DDoS attacks,
application-level attacks, and the increasing number of threats
posed by bots. Akamai's 2017 State of the Internet Security Report
found that more than 40 percent of online login attempts are
malicious, and the Ponemon Institute reports breaches based on this
attack vector can, on average, cost a digital business $60 million per year.
New enhancements to the Akamai platform are designed to manage
the growing challenge posed by bots and mitigate the threats posed
by credential abuse. Akamai Bot Manager has added capabilities to
protect apps and APIs, including a client SDK for mobile
applications. For larger botnets that threaten to overwhelm
organizations' apps and infrastructure through volumetric DDoS
attacks, Akamai is deploying additional capacity to its scrubbing
centers to mitigate the ever-growing volume of DDoS attacks that
have been threatening digital businesses." Akamai offers secure
browsing and support for HTTPS everywhere with TLS 1.3 and
unparalleled visibility into evolving threats and threat actors via
enhanced security analytics.
Secure access in a Zero Trust era
As the traditional
corporate security perimeter dissolves and enterprise applications
move to the cloud, secure unified access and single sign-on have
become an imperative. Akamai's Enterprise Application Access is
designed to enable IT and security teams to move towards a Zero
Trust security architecture, while simplifying secure access and
reducing the attack surface associated with cloud migration, the
dissolving corporate perimeter, and an increasingly mobile
workforce.
Fast, secure web and mobile experiences
According to
data from Akamai's Retail Performance Report, a two-second delay in
web page load time increases bounce rates by 103 percent, and 53
percent of mobile browsers will leave a page that takes more than
three seconds to load.
As application architectures evolve and digital applications
become more complex, it is increasingly challenging for businesses
to ensure consistently high customer experiences. Akamai's
newly-deployed features have enhanced its platform's ability to
monitor, optimize, and validate application performance with the
addition of perceived performance, page construction, and
application delivery metrics to its mPulse real user monitoring
solution.
Once issues are identified, features inherent to several
solutions are designed to ensure the integrity of application
engagement and experience, including: the script management and
resource optimization features of the Ion acceleration solution,
digital asset optimization capabilities and support for the Brotli
compression algorithm, Image Manager optimization, and network
optimization capabilities in an enhanced mobile application
performance SDK.
"Customer experience is critical for our business and we are
excited to be working with Akamai to understand how web performance
is impacting and driving our key business metrics across our many
global sites," said John Paris,
Service Manager, Skyscanner. "We can now monitor and optimize the
digital experience using actionable insights from mPulse RUM that
help us prioritize fixes and enhancements that will deliver the
most business impact."
The intersection of DevOps and Security:
DevSecOps
Additional new platform features address the need
for infusing security into DevOps, as more enterprises work to find
that balance between accelerated development cycles and the mindset
that "security is everybody's responsibility". Akamai has added
support for scripting to automate application security using its
flagship web application firewall, Kona Site Defender, as well as
improved management and versioning support for API protection. In
addition, the Akamai API Gateway provides an integrated solution
architected to accelerate, secure, and manage APIs, including the
ability to expose, authenticate, and manage access to APIs to
maximize revenue and prevent misuse and abuse.
Quality at scale for OTT Content and
Advertising
Akamai continues to focus on bringing the
quality, performance and reliability of traditional broadcast
television to the Internet, while protecting pay-TV and OTT service
providers, broadcasters and consumers from a growing number of
cyber threats. Recent innovations in streaming media delivery,
monetization and security include: Media Services Live, featuring
liveOrigin™ functionality, which significantly drives down latency
while maintaining exceptional video quality; its Broadcast
Operations Control Center real-time monitoring and issue detection
service; Dynamic Ad Insertion (DAI) capabilities to help scale
addressable advertising; and security solutions designed to help
ensure service and content availability.
"Building trust is at the core of Akamai's offerings. Not only
trust that we are delivering the highest possible performance for
web or media content, but also that the content is secure against
theft and disruption," said Rick
McConnell, President & General Manager, Web Division at
Akamai. "As our customers digitally transform their businesses and
meet the demands of their users for rich, high-quality content,
Akamai is committed to helping them deliver an exceptional and
secure experience."
To learn more about the Akamai Cloud Delivery Platform,
visit:
https://www.akamai.com/spring2018.
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. 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
platform features to operate as expected or to address intended
market needs, a failure of Akamai's network infrastructure, changes
in Akamai's investment priorities, 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.
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Whitman
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Tom Barth
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Media
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617-444-3019
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