CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai
Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the intelligent edge platform
for securing and delivering digital experiences, today announced
enhancements focused on maximizing security, quality, and
reliability from the cloud to the digital touchpoint. With these
new features, the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform enables
organizations to optimize and secure the critical point where they
monetize and differentiate their services and push the boundaries
of digital experiences.
"The edge is both where a business and its customers meet and a
place where valuable insights can be gained and shared globally at
lightning speed," said Rick
McConnell, President and GM of Akamai's Web Division. "As
enterprises respond to the ongoing expansion of mobile usage and
heightened customer expectations, enhancements to the Akamai
Intelligent Edge Platform are designed to accelerate their digital
transformations and improve customer experiences while maximizing
security and digital trust."
Moving to the cloud creates security, performance, quality and
cost issues for organizations. Akamai's services can help
organizations focus on productivity, profitability and core
business operations rather than building out and maintaining their
own infrastructure. New capabilities of the platform further
address security, media delivery, and web performance challenges by
utilizing distributed workloads and intelligence closest to the
digital touchpoint where the user interacts with data and
applications.
Enhancing Security without Compromising Customer
Experience
In order to realize the full return on their
cloud investments, organizations must mitigate the threats that
come with an expanded attack surface, including bot, DDoS and web
application attacks, threats targeting customer digital identities,
and content piracy. To address these challenges, Akamai platform
enhancements include:
- Increased insight into bot activity: A new bot
intelligence console for Akamai's Bot Manager aggregates data from
across Akamai's customer base to provide greater context, letting
users benchmark their bot traffic against other customers as well
as the platform as a whole. With insight provided by more than
11B bot requests daily, organizations
can see intelligence on specific botnets, including how individual
attacks fit into broader attack campaigns against entire
industries.
- Extended access security with device posture:
Enhancements to Enterprise Application Access (EAA) enable
continuous verification of authorized enterprise resource access,
key to a zero trust security framework, based on various signals
sent and collected by the global Akamai platform and the billions
of devices and users connected to it.
- Enhanced agility with WAF rule evaluation mode: IT and
security teams can tune and keep WAF protections up to date with
less time and overhead. As Akamai continuously updates WAF rules in
Kona Site Defender to protect against the latest threats, customers
can easily see how new and updated rules will impact their
organizations before publishing the rule.
- Real-time content protection to stop piracy: A set of
platform enhancements address content piracy, which continues to
grow as a major security challenge for media and entertainment
streaming companies. Scalable forensic watermarking support,
pre-integrated with leading third-party providers, leverages the
edge to provide a more effective way to trace piracy back to the
source. In addition, a new edge-based Access Revocation API is
designed to allow content providers to shut down pirated streams in
near real-time.
"Akamai customers recognize the increasingly important role that
the edge can play in improving the experience of employees and
consumers as they use web and cloud-based applications," said
Ari Weil, Vice President of Product
Marketing at Akamai. "Security stands out among the many computing
needs bolstered by edge functionality. Edge-based security responds
to threats in real-time, enables secure, perimeter-less
environments, and captures insight close to the end user."
To learn more about the October
2019 updates to the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform, visit
akamai.com/october2019.
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.
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, inability of the
newly-introduced solutions to operate as expected or to address
intended market needs, customers not realizing the desired benefits
from solutions they purchase, 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.
Contacts:
Stephanie Fallon
Media Relations
617-444-3984
sfallon@akamai.com
Tom Barth
Investor Relations
617-274-7130
tbarth@akamai.com
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