What Are Cybersecurity Solutions?

Cybersecurity solutions are products or services designed to protect digital systems and data from cyberattacks. These solutions include a wide range of security components such as firewalls, DDoS protection, microsegmentation, account takeover protection, API security, bot management, and web application security.

In the ever-changing world of IT security, relying on a patchwork of different solutions can weaken your security posture. The threat landscape is constantly evolving, and malicious actors are inventing new ways to attack your ecosystem every day. Building your defenses with a disparate collection of security technologies will often result in blind spots and confusion for your security teams — and vulnerabilities and weaknesses that hackers can exploit. To protect your IT infrastructure, applications, sensitive data, and users, you need a unified and comprehensive approach to cybersecurity.

Akamai can help. Our holistic cybersecurity solutions surround and protect your IT ecosystem with the largest globally distributed edge network in the world. Our unified platform of best-in-class defenses provides in-depth protection against security threats, along with simplified controls and automation that minimize the workload for administrators and increase the power of your endpoint security programs.

Akamai offers a broad array of cybersecurity solutions to protect your entire ecosystem — including clouds, apps, APIs, and users — without slowing your business down. Our solutions include:

• App & API Protector. Rely on one-stop, zero-compromise security for websites, applications, and APIs. Our technology dynamically adapts protections to evolving attacks, including the OWASP Top 10. Automated updates and self-tuning technology simplify application security administration.
• Prolexic. Stop the biggest, bandwidth-busting DDoS attacks with a proven platform that has blocked some of the largest attacks in history. Prolexic proactively reduces your attack surfaces, and a zero-second SLA stops attacks instantly. More than 200 frontline SOCC defenders help to strengthen security and incident response before, during, and after a cyberattack.
• Edge DNS. Ensure guaranteed, nonstop availability of web apps and APIs with a highly secure DNS service. Rely on our 100% uptime SLA — made possible by the world’s largest edge platform — for mission-critical DNS services.
• Client-side Protection & Compliance. Defend your websites from client-side threats with real-time visibility into vulnerabilities within all your scripts. Deploy fully automated protection to catch attacks in real time.
• Enterprise Application Access. Scale secure remote access for your workforce quickly with Zero Trust Network Access — without needing to rely on slow or clunky VPNs. Reduce the cost, complexity, and risk of remote enterprise access.
• Secure Internet Access. Safely connect users and devices to the internet with Akamai’s secure web gateway. Proactively protect against phishing and zero-day attacks. Deploy web security technology in minutes with the ability to scale globally.
• Akamai MFA. Prevent data breaches with phish-proof multifactor authentication (MFA). Increase the strength of your security tools with a solution built on the most secure MFA standard. Reduce administrative burden with self-service enrollment and an easy smartphone app experience.
• Bot Manager. Stop the most dangerous, evasive bots before they steal sensitive information and cause data loss, slow your website, and erode customer trust. Let the good bots in while stopping bad bots where they make first contact.
• Identity Cloud. Enable seamless, effortless user experiences while protecting customers and providing data security. Reduce friction during registration, authentication, and sign-ins while making it easy for customers to control their accounts from any device.
• Account Protector. Protect your customers from fraud by uncovering the subtle anomalies of imposters attempting to sign into legitimate accounts.

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation offers the simplest, fastest, and most intuitive way to enforce Zero Trust principles within your network — and to stop attacks like ransomware that rely on lateral movement.

As enterprise IT infrastructure has evolved from traditional on-premises data centers to cloud and hybrid cloud architectures, security teams can no longer rely on cybersecurity solutions designed solely to defend the perimeter. Cybercriminals have become incredibly adept at finding a way to breach defenses, then moving laterally within a network to find high-value targets.

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is a software-based segmentation solution that reduces risk without costly security hardware. This cybersecurity solution provides deep visibility into how applications communicate normally, enabling security teams to protect business-critical assets with next generation segmentation policies in just a few clicks. The broadest possible coverage allows you to protect critical assets in your segmented network no matter where they are deployed or accessed: in the cloud, on-premises, virtual servers, containers, or bare metal.

With this powerful segmentation technology, you can block lateral movement, detect attacks quickly, and minimize dwell time with breach detection capabilities that include reputation analysis, dynamic deception, and a threat intelligence firewall.

When your security teams need additional expertise and world-class cybersecurity solutions to stay ahead of online threats and cybercrime, Akamai Managed Security Service (MSS) can help you maintain a strong security posture.

Akamai MSS combines teams of experienced security experts and proven online defenses to offer security management solutions, monitoring, and mitigation in one fully managed service. Our MSS teams map security strategies to your business needs while integrating industry expertise and best practices, backed by the global scale of Akamai Connected Cloud.

Proactive monitoring provides visibility into online activity for early threat detection.

• Security event management enables quick response once threats are identified to mitigate attacks.
• Attack readiness is achieved by tuning security configurations periodically to defend against the latest threats.
• Advisory services provide security assessments and intelligence, solution recommendations, and information security trends.
• Unified insights and operational efficiencies from our global Security Operations Command Center (SOCC) provide visibility into existing and emerging threats to mitigate attacks faster.