Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is available
first to public-cloud customers via Microsoft Azure
Marketplace
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 27,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai Technologies, Inc.
(NASDAQ: AKAM), the cloud company that powers and protects life
online, today announced that it is extending its industry-leading
segmentation solution, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, to hybrid
cloud environments. Extending Akamai Guardicore Segmentation to the
cloud helps reduce attack surfaces and helps contain attacks
targeting cloud-native workloads. Network security professionals
can seamlessly manage segmentation across their public cloud
environments with the benefits of faster time to policy deployment,
single network governance across data centers, and reduced
management complexity — all through a single interface. Akamai
Guardicore Segmentation will be initially available for Microsoft
Azure deployments via Azure Marketplace, followed by Akamai
Connected Cloud beginning later this year.
Thirty-three percent of IT decision-makers (ITDMs) intended to
increase their use of distributed cloud services to improve
security and reliability, according to a recent
survey commissioned by Akamai and conducted by ClearPath
Strategies. However, nearly half (48%) of ITDMs claimed that
security tools were missing or underdeveloped for a distributed
cloud world, underscoring the need for better security tools to
protect workloads in the cloud.
While organizations of all sizes are implementing public cloud
strategies to innovate and realize new efficiencies, challenges
remain. Leveraging Akamai Guardicore Segmentation in the cloud
helps organizations address a lack of visibility into application
behavior, the need for multiple policies across cloud providers,
and governance issues between DevOps and SecOps teams.
"Public and multi-cloud environments are crucial to most
organizations' business operations, but they lack the native
visibility and security controls required to effectively lock down
a cloud. For clouds to be secure, security practitioners must be
able to see which applications, workloads, and traffic flows are
moving within the environment," said Pavel
Gurvich, Senior Vice President, General Manager, Enterprise
Security at Akamai. "Applying a microsegmentation policy in the
cloud can give security practitioners comprehensive visibility and
control across all cloud environments, from a single interface with
one set of controls, without the need for agents. We can protect
business-critical applications — whether they are on-premises, in
the cloud, or on legacy servers — while reducing the number of
security solutions that need to be managed."
Benefits of Akamai Guardicore Segmentation in the cloud
include:
- Comprehensive agentless cloud-native visibility and
enforcement enables administrators to visualize cloud workloads
using a near-real-time interactive map of true network flows,
understanding the application dependencies and bringing together
DevOps and SecOps teams in cloud network security governance.
- Hybrid enforcement engine leveraging multiple enforcement
points allows an organization to simply define the intent of
network policy and have the Akamai Guardicore Segmentation policy
engine take care of the rest, dynamically deciding which
agent-based and agentless enforcement points are used across the
data center.
- Integrated reputation analysis and threat intelligence
firewall capabilities are designed to reduce time to
detection and incident response time in the event of a breach.
- Scalable and secure solution ensures data does not leave
your cloud environment and solution architecture scales
automatically within it.
Learn more about Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and how it
can contain attacks within public cloud environments.
About Akamai
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Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and
secure their digital experiences — helping billions of people live,
work, and play every day. Akamai Connected Cloud, a massively
distributed edge and cloud platform, puts apps and experiences
closer to users and keeps threats farther away. Learn more about
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