Power Digital Growth with App & API Protector
Why settle for good enough?
When you need to improve your security stance, you face a lot of tough trade-offs. Increased security, when implemented poorly, can come at the cost of innovation, speed, deliverability, and customer satisfaction. And when you choose ease-of-use and simplicity over functionality you put your organization at risk of downtime, malware, and other malicious attacks. You shouldn’t have to settle for “good enough” security.
Robust protection for CISOs
Akamai App & API Protector minimizes the trade-offs and gives you the robust protection that CISOs require, the ease of use that security teams need, and the ability to keep powering the digital growth that your executives want.
Akamai designed its next-level web application and API protection (WAAP) solution with a rich set of capabilities, while also making it easier to manage. Unlike other solutions that offer ease of use at the expense of strong protections, App & API Protector starts strong and gets even stronger by auto-tuning according to your organization’s unique traffic patterns.
We think this is a key reason that App & API Protector was recently recognized as a Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for WAAP, in addition to being designated a Magic Quadrant™ Leader for WAAP.
Holistic security solution
App & API Protector offers a holistic security solution that serves the needs of security teams, developers, and business leaders. With protection that’s managed by us – and constantly evolving through machine learning – you and your teams gain hundreds of hours of time to focus on your organization’s top objectives.
Fortify applications and protect APIs
App & API Protector provides a set of powerful protections designed to produce the highest security outcomes by leveraging the most advanced and sophisticated technologies. Our technology, combined with one of the largest cloud security information databases and our new Adaptive Security Engine, secures applications and protects APIs from the most advanced threats.
Do more with less
APIs have become a dominant mechanism in the modern web that enable powerful web experiences, but may also expose back-end data and logic.
You need to protect all your websites, applications, and APIs from a broad range of threats, including volumetric distributed denial of service (DDoS), automated botnets, and injection and API-based attacks, among others. App & API Protector maximizes your security investment with a WAAP solution that includes bot visibility and mitigation, DDoS protection, SIEM connectors, web optimization, edge compute, API acceleration, and more.
Real results
Current customers tell us they’re seeing:
Protection against zero-day attacks powered by up-to-date threat intelligence and machine learning
2x increase in the number of attacks detected, plus additional ease of use with automated rule updates
5x reduction in false positive results with new multidimensional threat scoring
Protection for new or updated web applications and APIs and automatic discovery alerts to sensitive data leakage
An accelerated “shift left” with DevOps integrations for increased alignment and improved operational efficiency
Even more security
The optional Advanced Security Management module has automation and configuration flexibility for more complex application environments and advanced security needs. Although automatic updates are recommended, this option provides a manual mode of operation that enables granular actions and the ability to activate updates when desired. You can also evaluate new updates alongside current protections to understand improvements in accuracy before deployment.
The Advanced Security Management option also includes additional configurations, rate controls, policies, custom rules, positive API security, and access to IP reputation threat intelligence (Client Reputation).
Get started
Deploying a web application and API security solution while planning, implementing, or optimizing your information security strategy will provide your team with the ability to understand your unique risks, target security gaps, and detect threats. Don’t settle: Align your security goals with your business goals by starting your free trial now.
Not ready to try App & API Protector just yet?
Still not sure which WAAP security solution is right for you? You can use this checklist to assess vendor capabilities or to create a list of the requirements you need to implement an effective WAAP solution.
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As always, contact us to get answers to your specific questions about powering and protecting life online.
