What Is Threat Protection?

Whether your business operates data centers around the globe or in the cloud, engages customers over the web, or supports an increasingly mobile workforce, you rely on the internet to connect people, applications, and user experiences. Superior threat protection solutions are critical in a business landscape where security threats are constantly evolving and requirements are continually changing.

Akamai can help. Our deep visibility into worldwide internet traffic and conditions enables us to deliver superior threat protection on a robust and flexible platform. Our portfolio of security solutions delivers advanced threat protections for your internet-facing infrastructure, shielding you from the risk of a broad array of attack vectors.

When deploying threat protection, your solutions must defend every aspect of your organization from a rapidly evolving threat landscape.

• Customers. Protecting your customers’ personally identifiable information, transaction details, and account balances is essential for maintaining their trust.
• Data centers. The business-critical IT assets in your data centers must be protected from theft, corruption, ransomware, and denial-of-service attacks.
• Web applications. Vulnerabilities and weaknesses in your web applications are a prime attack vector for cybercriminals.
• APIs. APIs facilitate business agility, communication, and collaboration. They also significantly increase your attack surface when they are not adequately protected.
• DNS services. Denial-of-service attacks, forgery, and manipulation can compromise your Domain Name System (DNS) services, making it difficult for users to find your websites and applications.
• Users. Your employees are among the weakest links in your security chain, which is why they are often the target of phishing attacks, ransomware, and malware attacks.
• Enterprise applications and sensitive data. Providing secure access to enterprise applications and business-critical data is becoming more difficult as the traditional security perimeter disappears.

Akamai’s portfolio of cybersecurity solutions keeps your IT environment safe from cyberthreats — without compromising on performance. Our technology surrounds and protects your entire ecosystem, from cloud services and apps to APIs and users.

App & API Protector - Enjoy greater threat protection with better outcomes and less friction. Akamai App & API Protector delivers one-stop, zero-compromise security for applications, websites, and APIs. Dynamically adapt protections to evolving attacks and minimize effort with managed updates and self-tuning powered by machine learning. Stop volumetric DDoS attacks, automated botnets, zero-day attacks, and more.

Prolexic - Fight the biggest, bandwidth-busting DDoS assaults, SYN flood attacks, and Slowloris campaigns with Akamai Prolexic. Proactively reduce your attack surface with a zero-second SLA and strengthen incident response by relying on Akamai’s 200+ frontline SOCC defenders.

Client-side Protection & Compliance - Defend your site from client-side threats by monitoring scripts in real time and continuously analyzing first- and third-party URLs for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs). Reveal malicious code and vulnerability blind spots, catching attacks in real time with a proven threat protection solution.

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation - Visualize and segment assets in your on-premises data center, cloud-based, or hybrid cloud infrastructure. Real-time threat detection and response capabilities identify lateral movement and minimize dwell time in a segmented network. Software-based segmentation simplifies the process of reducing risk, improving network security, and implementing a Zero Trust framework without requiring costly security hardware.

Secure Internet Access - Keep users safe and maintain endpoint security with threat protection to mitigate zero-day malware and phishing. Protect your ecosystem with a multilayered defense that includes real-time intelligence, detection engines, data loss prevention technology, application control, and payload analysis.

Akamai MFA - Prevent employee account takeovers and data breaches with phish-proof multi-factor authentication. Rely on the strongest authentication standards available to stop bypass attacks.

Bot Manager - Outsmart the most sophisticated and elusive bots, letting good bots in while blocking bad bots at the point where they first make contact.

Account Protector - Keep fraudsters out with account takeover protection. Protect reputation and budgets while avoiding the financial strain of remedying stolen accounts. Thwart human-driven fraud coordinated with bot attacks and avoid the tedious work of managing alerts without lowering your security threshold.

Akamai advanced threat protection solutions are deployed on our global platform and powered by deep security expertise in threat intelligence. Our threat protection solutions provide:

• Global protection. The breadth of our cloud computing platform — the world’s largest — makes it easier to protect IT assets in your data centers, public cloud, and multicloud environments anywhere in the world.
• Real-time support. We offer a single point of contact for attack and remediation support, as well as real-time incident response.
• Integrated technology. Your security teams can streamline security and enhance mitigation with solutions that are designed to work easily together, all managed from a single pane of glass.
• Improved visibility. Our web-based portal delivers greater visibility into attacks and policy control. High-level dashboards let you drill down into granular details.
• Streamlined management. Rely on Akamai Managed Security Service to deploy appliances, install software solutions, and configure security technologies.
• Seamless upgrades. Deploy new security capabilities and solutions as they become available, without disrupting business or infrastructure.