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Financial Services Solutions

Protect your data, customers, and resources as threats evolve

Rely on the platform trusted by global financial services institutions

Cyberattacks cost the financial services industry an average of 50% more than all other industries combined. Akamai’s real-time visibility into global threats can help to secure your infrastructure, data, and applications, no matter the device, network, or location in the world.

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Benefits for financial services institutions

Manage rapid change

Trust in a platform that can adapt to emerging industry trends to deliver secure, reliable services.

Gain visibility

Cut through complexity with situational awareness and visibility across your infrastructure, applications, and users.

Better serve customers

Achieve greater visibility to fight fraud and emerging cyberthreats while delivering the experiences that today’s customers expect.

Segmentation Impact Study: Financial Services Industry

Segmentation Impact Study: Financial Services Industry

Discover the power of microsegmentation in containing ransomware, improving resilience, and reducing costs for financial services organizations.

API Security Risks in Financial Services

API Security Risks in Financial Services

See why 96% of financial firms faced API security incidents. Gain insights into AI-linked threats, misconfiguration risks, and cost-saving security strategies.

Customer stories

Featured solutions

Secure your applications

Keep your apps and APIs protected, even as increased API usage expands your attack surface.

API Security

Discover, monitor, and audit API activity using real-time analytics to respond to threats and abuse.

App & API Protector

Leading security protection for applications and APIs at the edge.

Prolexic

Protect your infrastructure from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

Edge DNS

Akamai DNS protects on-prem, cloud, and hybrid DNS while ensuring high availability and performance.

Client-Side Protection & Compliance

Assist with your PCI compliance and protect your website against JavaScript attacks.

Defend your infrastructure

Secure systems with Zero Trust, whether on-prem, cloud, or hybrid, while easing compliance and risk management.

Akamai Guardicore Platform

One Zero Trust platform for coverage, visibility, and granular control.

Prolexic

Protect your infrastructure from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

Edge DNS

Akamai DNS protects on-prem, cloud, and hybrid DNS while ensuring high availability and performance.

App & API Protector

Leading security protection for applications and APIs at the edge.

Akamai Hunt

Find and remediate the most evasive security risks with a managed threat hunting service.

Secure Internet Access Enterprise

Proactively detect and block malware, ransomware, phishing, and data exfiltration attacks.

Protect your customers

Flag suspicious activity, improve customer trust, and protect valuable relationships.

Akamai MFA

Mitigate employee account takeover with phish-proof multi-factor authentication based on FIDO2.

Prolexic

Protect your infrastructure from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

Bot Manager

Advanced bot management designed to detect and mitigate sophisticated bad bots but allow good bots.

Uphold your reputation

Detect and disrupt fake websites, cyberattacks, data breaches, ransomware, phishing, malware, spoofing, and trademark piracy attempts.

Prolexic

Protect your infrastructure from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

Brand Guardian

AI-powered detection and disruption of brand abuse at internet scale.

Bot Manager

Advanced bot management designed to detect and mitigate sophisticated bad bots but allow good bots.

Akamai Cloud

Compute, storage, networking, database, and container management cloud services

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Cyberattacks cost the financial services industry an average of 50% more than all other industries combined, creating an urgent need for advanced security solutions.

Financial institutions can utilize real-time visibility into global threats to secure their infrastructure, data, and applications, regardless of the device, network, or location in the world.

Most financial firms (96%) have faced API security incidents, driven by AI-linked threats and misconfiguration risks that expand the corporate attack surface.

Firms can rely on a trusted platform that adapts to emerging industry trends to deliver secure, reliable services while cutting through complexity with comprehensive situational awareness.

Microsegmentation provides deep visibility across hybrid environments, which is essential for containing ransomware, reducing mitigation costs, and simplifying compliance management.

Financial institutions must achieve greater visibility to fight fraud, flag suspicious activity, and mitigate emerging cyberthreats while maintaining smooth digital experiences.

Organizations should deploy capabilities that detect and disrupt fake websites, data breaches, ransomware, phishing, malware, spoofing, and trademark piracy attempts.

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