Akamai Hunt and Akamai Agentless Segmentation
Help Customers Reduce Attack Surface and Time to
Remediation
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 7,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai Technologies, Inc.
(NASDAQ: AKAM), the cloud company that powers and protects life
online, today introduced the Akamai Hunt security service. The
service enables customers to capitalize on the infrastructure of
Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, Akamai's global attack visibility,
and expert security researchers to Hunt and remediate the most
evasive threats and risks in their environments. Akamai also
released Agentless Segmentation, helping Akamai Guardicore
Segmentation customers extend the benefits of Zero Trust to
connected IoT and OT devices that aren't capable of running
host-based security software.
As organizations embrace digital transformation and workforces
continue to evolve, ransomware and other advanced attacks are still
a threat to business continuity and overall brand trust,
costing more than $20
billion in 2021 alone. To combat these threats, IT
administrators must take new approaches to safeguard their
networks, intellectual property and employees through the Zero
Trust frameworks and microsegmentation to stop lateral movement
within the network.
"Microsegmentation is proven to defend against ransomware and
other attacks by greatly reducing attack surfaces in complex and
dynamic environments," said Pavel
Gurvich, Senior Vice President and General Manager,
Enterprise Security at Akamai. "These new offerings for Akamai
Guardicore Segmentation customers will extend protection to devices
that have historically been difficult to secure and will provide
the extra visibility and analysis necessary to fend off the most
evasive threats."
Akamai Hunt
Akamai Hunt combines the infrastructure, telemetry and control
of Akamai Guardicore Segmentation with the data that Akamai has by
delivering much of the world's internet traffic.
Now customers can eliminate threats in their environment,
virtually patch vulnerabilities, and improve their IT hygiene.
Other benefits include:
- Unique Dataset: Rich telemetry from the customer's
environment correlated with priority global threat data enables
Hunt to find evasive threats and risks.
- Big Data Analysis: Massive data is correlated and
queried for suspicious and anomalous activity that other tools
miss.
- Expert Investigation: Dedicated security experts
investigate detections to ensure teams are not bogged down by false
positives.
- Alerts and Monthly Reports: Detailed alerts provide the
information required for mitigation, while monthly reports provide
an executive overview.
- Guided Mitigation: Hunt experts assist in the
remediation of threats, patching of vulnerabilities, and hardening
of IT infrastructures.
For more information about Akamai Hunt join the Akamai
webinar on March 23 at
12:00 p.m. ET or click here.
Akamai Agentless Segmentation
Securing IoT and OT devices has traditionally been a challenge
for most organizations. With Akamai Agentless Segmentation
organizations are now able to reduce their attack surface, and
enforce Zero Trust policies on devices that can't run host-based
security software. Other features include:
- Continuous Device Discovery: Automatically discover new
network-connected devices and execute predefined device onboarding
workflows.
- Integrated Device Fingerprinting: Identify, assess,
and categorize all connected devices to ensure that appropriate
security policies are applied.
- Visualization of Enterprise Assets: View IoT and OT
devices, traffic, and interactions with endpoints, servers, and
cloud assets throughout the enterprise.
- Agentless Zero Trust Segmentation: Enforce
agentless least-privilege segmentation policies and quarantine
suspicious devices through direct integration with network control
points.
- Roaming Device Awareness: Maintain device visibility,
context, and control as devices move between different areas of
your wired and wireless network infrastructure.
Akamai Agentless Segmentation will be available for Akamai
Guardicore Segmentation customers in Q2 2023.
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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Media Contact:
Craig Sirois
214-405-2335
csirois@akamai.com
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