LAS VEGAS, Oct. 11, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai Edge
2017 -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the world's
largest and most trusted cloud delivery platform, today introduced
Bot Manager Premier. As the latest addition to the company's Cloud
Security product family, Bot Manager Premier is designed to help
organizations manage the impact of bots across their entire digital
environment, including websites, mobile applications and web
APIs.
According to a recent survey conducted by the Ponemon Institute
on behalf of Akamai, 54 percent of respondents reported that
credential stuffing attacks are not only increasing, but also
becoming more severe. 68 percent indicated that they did not have
good visibility into credential stuffing attacks, while 70 percent
did not believe existing solutions were sufficient for preventing
and containing these attacks. Within this challenging environment,
Bot Manager Premier is designed specifically to help online
businesses address several advanced bot use cases as quickly,
efficiently and effectively as possible. These situations include
credential abuse, gift card/credit card balance checking, loyalty
program other forms of web fraud, as well as automated purchases of
travel reservations or limited availability consumer goods.
Bot Manager Premier introduces new behavior anomaly analysis
capabilities proven to have successfully detected many of the most
sophisticated bots in evidence. Incorporating technology from the
company's Cyberfend acquisition, Bot Manager Premier is able to
detect bot activity disguised as human interactions, even if the
bots continually modify behavior in an attempt to evade detection,
while targeting login and other transactional pages. At the same
time, Bot Manager Premier can effectively manage other bot
activity, such as scraping, content aggregation, and even "good"
bots that can affect other aspects of a company website.
Akamai's Bot Manager Premier is designed to meet the needs of
online businesses by offering:
- Advanced bot detection including behavior anomaly
analysis designed to thwart credential abuse, gift card balance
checking and other forms of web fraud aimed at login and
transactional web pages.
- Mobile SDK to better protect mobile apps and APIs from
bot activity.
- Advanced and conditional actions to give organizations
the power to manage different types of bots (e.g., scrapers,
content aggregators, etc.) in the manner that best meets their
unique business requirements.
"For businesses to be successful in today's environment, they
must interact with their customers online. But to do so, they must
expose login and other transactional pages that unfortunately can
be abused by robots that masquerade as humans online," explained
Josh Shaul, vice president, Web
Security, Akamai. "Our customers are telling us that Bot Manager
Premier is not only able to detect and stop the robots, but it is
also one of the few security solutions in their portfolios that can
deliver an easily measured return on investment. Akamai Bot Manager
clients can actually measure the reduction in fraud driven by
stopping credential abuse and account takeovers. By effectively
combining proven, advanced detection capabilities with highly
flexible management options, Akamai gives businesses a vital tool
to address their myriad bot problems."
To learn more and see Bot Manager Premier in action, please tune
into the broadcast of the Akamai Edge 2017 keynote, taking place at
12:00 p.m. PT, Wednesday, October 11, 2017.
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 Bot Manager
Premier 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.
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