When new suspicious behavior is detected, the security monitoring team will send a notification to your team via the Akamai Guardicore Segmentation portal. In addition, a threat notification is emailed immediately after a threat is detected.
Security monitoring for your environment
Detect and eliminate the most evasive security threats with Akamai Hunt, a managed threat hunting service. Led by Akamai’s expert team, it leverages Akamai Guardicore Segmentation data to identify risks, patch vulnerabilities, and fortify your infrastructure.
Real-time threat detection
How Akamai Hunt works
Features
- Context-rich threat intelligence
- Big data analysis
- Advanced detection algorithms
- Expert investigation and remediation assistance
- Instant alerts on active threats and exposed vulnerabilities
- Monthly executive-level threat reports
- Integration with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation
Learn how Akamai Hunt can help eliminate present security threats, virtually patch CVEs, and harden your IT environment.
Eliminate present security threats
Eliminate present security threats
Visibility of your network flows with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, combined and correlated with Akamai data and knowledge of threat actors and their techniques, make Akamai Hunt uniquely suited to identify any present threats that may exist in your environment. Once the threats are identified, we can quickly help you to remediate them without disrupting your business.
Virtually patch CVEs
Virtually patch CVEs
Akamai Hunt is able to identify vulnerabilities and determine if they are being exploited, or provide you with confidence that none exist. In the event that a formal patch is not viable for an existing vulnerability, we can virtually patch many threats through segmentation policy.
Harden your IT environment
Harden your IT environment
Akamai Hunt can easily find misconfigurations or other issues that can be fixed to reduce the likelihood of issues in your environment.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Akamai Hunt is a fully managed service that provides cybersecurity monitoring for the most evasive threats and risks in your environment, and mitigation assistance for vulnerabilities that are found.
To avoid alert fatigue, the Hunt team only alerts its customers about real threats, completely avoiding false positives. Every incident is thoroughly investigated by the Hunt team before it is sent to the customer. Armed with data collected from a global customer base, our experts maintain a baseline for a “healthy” data center and cloud applications communication, which helps us detect the most impactful threats.
No, Akamai Hunt is completely seamless, requiring no additional configuration or additional agent rollout. You can realize value from Hunt immediately after deploying the first batch of Akamai Guardicore Segmentation agents, regardless of whether you have completed your segmentation project.
Akamai Hunt combines the infrastructure, telemetry, and control of Akamai Guardicore Segmentation with the data that Akamai gathers by delivering much of the world’s internet traffic. Coupled with top talent in the areas of hunting, security research, algorithms, and analysis, the result is an outstanding ability to find the most evasive threats across customer networks.

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