New Capability Expands Prolexic Protections with Firewall and
Access Control Capabilities
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 25,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai Technologies, Inc.
(NASDAQ: AKAM), the cloud company that powers and protects life
online, today announced the launch of its Prolexic Network Cloud
Firewall. This new capability of Akamai Prolexic allows customers
to define and manage their own access control lists (ACLs) while
enabling greater flexibility to secure their own network edge.
Prolexic is Akamai's cloud-based DDoS protection platform
that stops attacks before they reach applications, data centers and
internet-facing infrastructure.
DDoS threats are on the rise again, a trend that is being
accelerated by the growing number of businesses and organizations
that rely on online services to operate. An increasing availability
of DDoS tools and services on the dark web makes it easier for
attackers to launch these types of attacks. The growing number of
internet-connected devices and the rise of the Internet of Things
(IoT) has created a larger attack surface for cybercriminals to
exploit. DDoS attacks are now increasingly being used as one of
multiple threat vectors in triple extortion attacks, typically in
combination with ransomware and data exfiltration.
Increasingly, nation state threat actors, hacktivists, and
similar highly organized collectives are currently using DDoS as
part of their attack portfolio against a growing number of very
diverse targets. In all of these scenarios, DDoS is often used as a
distraction to divert attention away from other types of attacks,
such as data exfiltration or network infiltration. Victims that
have no sufficient DDoS protection in place will typically spend
all their resources fencing off that one attack while not having
the attention span or bandwidth to fight other threats that were
launched in parallel.
Akamai Prolexic provides DDoS protection services to a wide
range of organizations, including businesses, governments, and
non-profit organizations. With a growing mitigation capacity of
currently 20 Tbps, Prolexic can fight off even the largest, most
complex threats, like recently record-breaking DDoS attacks in
Asia (+900 Gbps) and Europe (+700 Mpps).
The Prolexic network cloud firewall allows more efficient and
flexible defense against DDoS attacks and even expands Prolexic's
protection capabilities beyond DDoS.
While Prolexic's overall service and mitigation stacks are not
changing, the new offering allows customers to define and adjust
their own access control rules and provides analytics of existing
ones. Improvements include the ability to define proactive defenses
to block malicious traffic instantly, alleviate local
infrastructure by moving rules to the edge and to quickly adapt to
network changes via a new user interface.
"The feature most requested by our Prolexic customers is the
network cloud firewall," said Sean
Lyons, Senior Vice President and General Manager of
Infrastructure Security at Akamai. "We are expanding Prolexic's
leading DDoS protection capabilities and empowering customers to
define access control and firewall rules centrally and quickly, for
their entire networks advertised through the Prolexic global
footprint. This is a powerful tool in emergency situations, not
just DDoS attacks, but also in scenarios like zero day
vulnerabilities, where access can be shut down in an immediate, yet
targeted way. As we enforce rules at the edge of our customers'
networks, they don't have to worry about getting all internal
firewalls configured – which might just take too long."
Akamai Prolexic stops attacks with a cloud-based DDoS scrubbing
platform to protect applications wherever they are deployed,
whether in a data center, the public cloud, or a colocation
facility. It provides comprehensive protection against the broadest
range of DDoS attack types and defends against high-bandwidth
sustained attacks, as well as today's complex multi-vector attacks
that jump from application to application. Prolexic includes
proactive mitigation controls tailored to network traffic to stop
attacks instantly, backed by active mitigation performed by
Akamai's 24/7 global Security Operations Command Center (SOCC), and
provides customers a unique 100% uptime Service Level Agreement
(SLA).
About Akamai
Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies
worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital
experiences — helping billions of people live, work, and play every
day. With the world's most distributed compute platform — from
cloud to edge — we make it easy for customers to develop and run
applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats
farther away. Learn more about Akamai's security, compute, and
delivery solutions at akamai.com and akamai.com/blog, or
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Contacts
Jim Lubinskas
Akamai Media Relations
703.907.9103
jlubinsk@akamai.com
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