Akamai Technologies, cloud optimization services provider, rolled out a new suite of cloud defense solutions targeted at protecting companies from increasingly sophisticated and costly Web attacks.
With cyber crime costing global businesses approximately one trillion dollars each year, Akamai is introducing new capabilities for enterprises and cloud computing service providers to further solidify the perimeter defense around their network infrastructure for dynamic web sites and mission-critical business applications.
Tom Leighton, chief scientist and co-founder, Akamai, said, “Companies understand the benefits of the Cloud and continue to push business-critical data and operations there; however, the need to protect these assets from the growing frequency and sophistication of Web attacks increases dramatically as a result.”
The new DDoS defense architecture helps customers to prepare for, monitor, manage and mitigate the impacts of malicious DDoS attacks. In addition to the Akamai network’s ability to absorb large-scale attacks and offer fail-over service, Akamai’s cloud-based solutions include:
- Ability to cloak web infrastructure from the public Internet
- IP blocking and rate limiting capabilities at the network layer
- Web application firewalling at Layer 7 (application layer)
- Scalable protection from Domain Name System (DNS) attacks and DNSSEC
- Blocking of traffic by geographic region
- Identification of suspected BOTs from real users to de-prioritize or block
- DDoS specialists to assess infrastructure and develop a run-time attack playbook
- 24/7 support with a response Service Level Agreement (SLA)
- Capped exposure to bursting fees related to an attack
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