Prolexic is available as always-on or on-demand, so you can choose the best solution for your business. Always-on is our most popular solution, with all inbound traffic routed through Prolexic. With on-demand, your traffic is only routed during an attack event by your network team. Akamai also offers a facilitated route-on service that can manage the solution for your team, if needed.
DDoS defense and network cloud firewall. In-cloud, on-prem, or hybrid
Experience comprehensive, reliable and flexible DDoS protection with Prolexic, the most trusted DDoS solution in the industry.
Akamai Prolexic offers DDoS protection always-on or on-demand for every environment, including cloud, on-prem (powered by Corero), and hybrid. With an unmatched 20+ Tbps “dedicated defense capacity” and 24/7/365 global SOCC service, even the largest and most complex DDoS attacks stand no chance.
Fight the biggest, baddest, bandwidth-busting assaults
How Prolexic works
New Features
Prolexic over Akamai Direct Connect
Prolexic Network Cloud Firewall
Prolexic over Akamai Direct Connect
Prolexic is now available over Akamai Direct Connect
Akamai Direct Connect provides direct, secure, private, and high-performance connectivity between a customer’s origin and Akamai. Prolexic over Akamai Direct Connect enables a high-capacity on-ramp to DDoS protection.
Prolexic Network Cloud Firewall
Go beyond DDoS with Prolexic Network Cloud Firewall
Prolexic Network Cloud Firewall is the first line of defense and sits at the edge of your network, outside all other firewalls. You can define and manage your own ACLs and firewall rules, or have Prolexic suggest ACLs for the proactive defense that goes beyond DDoS.
Features
- DDoS detection, mitigation, protection
- Available as a cloud service, as an on-premises solution (powered by Corero), or as a hybrid combining both
- For enterprises, network service providers, cloud and hosting providers, and SaaS/PaaS/IaaS platforms
- 1+ Pbps Akamai network capacity and Prolexic’s 32 anycast global scrubbing centers with 20+ Tbps of dedicated DDoS defense
- Flexible connectivity and integration options that protect hybrid origins
- Network-wide ACLs and firewall rules with Prolexic Network Cloud Firewall
- 100% platform availability SLA and industry-leading zero-second mitigation
- 24/7/365 support and a variety of optional managed SOC services
- Dynamic mitigation controls that scale capacity to stop attacks across IPv4 and IPv6 traffic flows
Customer Stories
DDoS Protection Use Cases
Learn how Akamai’s DDoS protection assists with these specific needs.
Strengthen defenses
Unify security postures
Optimize incident response
Value-added service
Flexible deployment
Low latency for high volume traffic
Network cloud firewall
Strengthen defenses
Strengthen defenses against DDoS attacks
Prolexic has proactive mitigation controls that stop more than 98% of the attacks instantly with a zero-second SLA and a proven ability to stop highly complex, record-breaking attacks without sacrificing quality of mitigation.
Unify security postures
Unify your security postures
Prolexic enables DDoS mitigation policies to be applied consistently, regardless of where applications are hosted, helping to unify your security posture.
Optimize incident response
Optimize incident response
We work with you to create custom runbooks and service validation exercises, and perform operational readiness drills to help ensure business continuity if an attack were to occur.
Value-added service
Add DDoS protection to your service portfolio
Network service providers, ISPs, hosters, cloud vendors, and companies offering SaaS, PaaS, or IaaS use Prolexic not only to protect their infrastructure and platforms, but also offer it as a value-added service to generate incremental revenue and enhance the competitiveness of their main offerings.
Flexible deployment
DDoS protection without the cost of traffic rerouting
Our flexible deployment model means you can bring your scrubbing service in-house and minimize or eliminate egress costs. Prolexic On-Prem is powered by on-prem veteran Corero — and yes, if an attack is so large that your links could be incapacitated, this can be combined to a hybrid solution with Prolexic’s cloud-based DDoS platform, which adds 20+ Tbps defense capacity, over 32 cloud scrubbing centers globally, and zero-second, 100% uptime SLAs.
Low latency for high volume traffic
Meet latency requirements for high-volume data traffic
Avoid added latency from traffic hauling and external scrubbing for data-intense real-time services like video, gaming, voice, or multimedia applications. Our hybrid solution lets you bring DDoS defense on-premises while still getting the benefits of Prolexic’s massive cloud-based defense capacity to fend off very large, sustained attacks.
Network cloud firewall
Extend your security beyond DDoS
Prolexic Network Cloud Firewall empowers you to extend your network security beyond just DDoS. The cloud firewall sits at the edge of your network, protecting all other specialized firewalls from malicious traffic before they even touch your network. You can define and manage your own access control lists (ACLs) and rules based on geographic and IP-based restrictions, or have Prolexic suggest ACLs for a proactive defense posture. This is particularly useful when a zero-day vulnerability is discovered, and you can easily take rapid and centrally managed control to protect your network assets.
Additionally, the network cloud firewall can be integrated through APIs with other security systems. This enables you to have greater visibility into how your rules are protecting your network, improves your flexibility to secure your digital infrastructure assets according to your specific needs, and enhances compliance by reducing human errors.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
All of Akamai’s scrubbing centers will provide DDoS protection for your traffic. Prolexic uses anycast routing to mitigate attack traffic closest to the source while applying the collective capacity of the global platform to mitigate the largest attacks. Prolexic On-Prem, powered by Corero, also offers scrubbing in-house, with the option to use cloud-based scrubbing for large sustained attacks that threaten to overload on-prem capacities.
Prolexic is now available over Akamai Direct Connect, which is a direct, highly secure, and private network interconnection between a customer’s origin and Akamai Prolexic infrastructure. This enables a seamless on-ramp to Akamai services, and supports 10 G and 100 G port connectivity. It also supports higher-capacity traffic throughputs than traditional Prolexic services. Businesses with high volumes of data packets can have their traffic delivered through GRE tunnels without the need of fragmentation or a maximum segment size (MSS) adjustment. Prolexic over Akamai Direct Connect provides 99.9% to 99.99% network connectivity uptime, as defined in the service-level agreement (SLA). The Prolexic DDoS platform comes with a 100% availability SLA, ensuring a customer’s digital infrastructure has nonstop access to the most effective DDoS protection.
For the Prolexic Routed GRE option, you need to have an assigned /24 or larger advertisable network block (IPv4) or /48 (IPv6), the ability to advertise your network traffic via BGP, and support generic routing encapsulation (GRE) with your origin-based network hardware. We also encourage all customers to set the maximum segment size of all packets to improve GRE tunnel stabilization for Routed GRE. For customers with less than a routable IPv4 /24 and/or IPv6 /48, fragmented IP space, or cloud-hosting provider, the Prolexic IP Protect option provides the same level of DDoS protection via IP anycast to route symmetric traffic through Akamai scrubbing centers.
With more than 225+ frontline responders across six global locations, the Prolexic fully managed service includes pre-, during, and post-mitigation attack review and analysis by our 24/7 SOCC to help optimize DDoS mitigation and incident response.
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