CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 14, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Recognizing the
crucial role data analytics play in more effectively fighting cloud
security threats, Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the
global leader in content delivery network (CDN) services, today
unveiled the foundation underpinning its award-winning Cloud
Security Solutions. Known as Akamai Cloud Security Intelligence, a
data processing engine within the Akamai Intelligent Platform, the
engine is used to continuously analyze more than two Petabytes of
data related to web security threats. Akamai uses the resulting
intelligence to not only continuously update and improve the Kona
Site Defender application security rule set, but also provides the
framework around which innovative offerings, such as the newly
available Kona Client Reputation solution are built.
In an increasingly hostile and complex online environment,
protecting web properties from potentially harmful activities can
be daunting. For security professionals, understanding the "true
intent" of web clients, as well as how to counter the ever-changing
nature of attack vectors, is crucial to protecting their
organizations' websites and applications. Through the ability to
analyze more than 20 Terabytes of daily web attack traffic
associated with hundreds of millions of unique IP addresses on an
hourly basis,, the Akamai Cloud Security Intelligence is designed
to provide more comprehensive insight into how malicious actors are
attacking web properties, which in turn can be used to inform the
direction of Akamai's Cloud Security Solutions.
Security professionals can benefit from the power of Akamai's
Cloud Security Intelligence through two newly introduced
offerings:
- Kona Client Reputation: Akamai's unprecedented view of
web traffic gives the Company access to more web client data than
any other security provider. That data, combined with a proprietary
query language and advanced heuristics and algorithms creates a
reputation "score" for every IP address that crosses the platform.
As important, this score can adapt over time, based on ongoing data
analysis of IP address activity. Potentially hazardous traffic is
classified as DDoS attackers, vulnerability scanners, web attackers
or web scrapers and further rated according to the likelihood of
danger associated with the client. The rating system is
specifically designed to give security professionals greater
insight and flexibility in defining which clients to block and
which to let through. Further, by injecting scores into request
headers, Kona Client Reputation data can feed into back-end
security systems. Internal testing of Kona Client Reputation shows
the solution is able to stop an average of up to eight times as
many malicious requests than using Kona Site Defender alone. Kona
Client Reputation is deployed as an add‑on option to Akamai Kona
Site Defender.
One organization already benefitting from Kona Client Reputation
is leading office supply retailer Staples. According to
Brian MacKinnon, a senior security
consultant, Ecommerce, at the company, "Client Reputation has been
critical in helping us make quicker and more informed security
decisions, improving our ability to effectively protect our sites
from attack and data theft. Akamai provides us new visibility about
malicious traffic at our fingertips and helps watch over us when
and where we're not looking."
- Improved Kona Rule Set: Responding to a consistently
evolving threat landscape requires the agility to quickly block
malicious activity without hampering legitimate traffic. Already
proven to deliver industry leading false positive and false
negative rates, the improved Kona Rule Set has been developed based
on ongoing analysis of more than two Petabytes of security-related
data delivered by Akamai Cloud Security Intelligence and conducted
by Akamai's threat research team. The resulting Kona Rule Set,
which is available to all Kona Site Defender customers at no
additional cost, has shown an approximately 30 percent decrease in
reporting false positives and false negatives, helping security
professionals ensure that more malicious traffic is being blocked
while at the same time allowing more legitimate traffic to
pass.
"Companies around the world have come to rely on Akamai's Cloud
Security Solutions to keep their web sites and applications not
only up and running, but also highly performant, in the face of
attack," explained John Summers,
vice president, Cloud Security, Akamai. "The Akamai Cloud Security
Intelligence data analysis engine provides a solid foundation from
which we're able to make our existing Akamai Cloud Security
Solutions even smarter and provide a framework upon which new cloud
security solutions can be built. The ultimate goal is to continue
delivering technology designed to keep our customers' online
businesses protected in the face of an ever changing threat
landscape."
About Akamai
As the global leader in Content Delivery
Network (CDN) services, Akamai makes the Internet fast, reliable
and secure for its customers. The company's advanced web
performance, mobile performance, cloud security and media delivery
solutions are revolutionizing how businesses optimize consumer,
enterprise and entertainment experiences for any device, anywhere.
To learn how Akamai solutions and its team of Internet experts are
helping businesses move faster forward, please visit
www.akamai.com or blogs.akamai.com, and follow @Akamai on
Twitter.
Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act
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expectations, plans and prospects of Akamai's management that
constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe
harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform
Act of 1995, including statements about future business plans and
opportunities. Actual results may differ materially from those
indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of
various important factors including, but not limited to, a failure
of Akamai's offerings or functionalities to operate as expected, a
lack of market acceptance of such service offerings and
functionalities, and other factors that are discussed in the
Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-
Q, and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
In addition, the statements in this press release represent
Akamai's expectations and beliefs as of the date of this press
release. Akamai anticipates that subsequent events and developments
may cause these expectations and beliefs to change. However, while
Akamai may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some
point in the future, it specifically disclaims any obligation to do
so. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as
representing Akamai's expectations or beliefs as of any date
subsequent to the date of this press release.
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