CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai
Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the world's most trusted
solution for protecting and delivering digital experiences, today
announces platform security enhancements to strengthen protection
for web applications, APIs, and user accounts. Akamai's machine
learning derives insight on malicious activity from more than 1.3
billion daily client interactions to intelligently automate threat
detections, time-consuming tasks, and security logic to help
professionals make faster, more trustworthy decisions regarding
cyberthreats.
In its May 9 report Top
Cybersecurity Threats in 2021, Forrester estimates that due to
reasons "exacerbated by COVID-19 and the resulting growth in
digital interactions, identity theft and account takeover increased
by at least 10% to 15% from 2019 to 2020." The leading global
research and advisory firm notes that we should "anticipate another
8% to 10% increase in identity theft and ATO [account takeover]
fraud in 2021." With threat actors increasingly using automation to
compromise systems and applications, security professionals must
likewise automate defenses in parallel against these attacks to
manage cyberthreats at pace.
New Akamai platform security enhancements include:
Adaptive Security Engine for Akamai's web application and
API protection (WAAP) solutions, Kona Site Defender and Web
Application Protector, is designed to automatically adapt
protections with the scale and sophistication of attacks, while
reducing the effort to maintain and tune policies. The Adaptive
Security Engine combines proprietary anomaly risk scoring with
adaptive threat profiling to identify highly targeted, evasive, and
stealthy attacks. The dynamic security logic intelligently adjusts
its defensive aggressiveness based on threat intelligence
automatically correlated for each customer's unique traffic.
Self-tuning leverages machine learning, statistical models, and
heuristics to analyze all triggers across each policy to accurately
differentiate between true and false positives.
Audience Hijacking Protection has been added to Akamai
Page Integrity Manager to detect and block malicious activity in
real time from client-side attacks using JavaScript, advertiser
networks, browser plug-ins, and extensions that target web clients.
Audience Hijacking Protection is designed to use machine learning
to quickly identify vulnerable resources, detect suspicious
behavior, and block unwanted ads, pop-ups, affiliate fraud, and
other malicious activities aimed at hijacking your audience.
Bot Score and JavaScript Obfuscation have been added to
Akamai Bot Manager, laying the foundation for ongoing innovations
in adversarial bot management, including the ability to take action
against bots aligned with corporate risk tolerance. Bot Score
automatically learns unique traffic and bot patterns, and
self-tunes for long-term effectiveness; JavaScript Obfuscation
dynamically changes detections to prevent bot operators from
reverse engineering detections.
Akamai Account Protector is a new solution designed to
proactively identify and block human fraudulent activity like
account takeover attacks. Using advanced machine learning,
behavioral analytics, and reputation heuristics, Account Protector
intelligently evaluates every login request across multiple risk
and trust signals to determine if it is coming from a legitimate
user or an impersonator. This capability complements Akamai's bot
mitigation to provide effective protection against both malicious
human actors and automated threats.
"At Akamai, our latest platform release is intended to help
resolve the tension between security and ease of use, with key
capabilities around automation and machine learning specifically
designed to intelligently augment human decision-making," said
Aparna Rayasam, senior vice
president and general manager, Application Security, Akamai. "Smart
automation adds immediate value and empowers users with the right
tools to generate insight and context to make faster and more
trustworthy decisions, seamlessly — all while anticipating what
attackers might do next."
For more information about Akamai's Edge Security solutions,
visit our Platform Update page.
About Akamai
Akamai secures and delivers digital
experiences for the world's largest companies. Akamai's intelligent
edge platform surrounds everything, from the enterprise to the
cloud, so customers and their businesses can be fast, smart, and
secure. Top brands globally rely on Akamai to help them realize
competitive advantage through agile solutions that extend the power
of their multi-cloud architectures. Akamai keeps decisions, apps,
and experiences closer to users than anyone — and attacks and
threats far away. Akamai's portfolio of edge security, web and
mobile performance, enterprise access, and video delivery solutions
is supported by unmatched customer service, analytics, and 24/7/365
monitoring. To learn why the world's top brands trust Akamai, visit
www.akamai.com, blogs.akamai.com, or @Akamai on Twitter. You can
find our global contact information at
www.akamai.com/locations.
Contacts:
Tim Whitman
Media Relations
617-444-3019
twhitman@akamai.com
Tom Barth
Investor Relations
617-274-7130
tbarth@akamai.com
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