CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai
Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the global leader in content
delivery network (CDN) services, today introduced two new managed
security service offerings available as part of the Company's Cloud
Security Solutions. Managed Kona Site Defender and Kona DDoS
Defender are designed to provide customers with both proven
security technology and world‑class security expertise to protect
their websites and web applications from malicious activity,
keeping them online and providing high performance, even in the
midst of an attack.
For many enterprises, protecting against the wide ranging and
constantly evolving security threats targeting web applications and
websites requires more than just technology. Dedicated and
specialized security expertise, able to identify and respond to the
latest threats while maintaining availability and protecting
sensitive data, is just as important. Faced with competing business
objectives and limited IT budgets, many IT organizations simply do
not have the time, resources, or expert staff necessary to provide
the best possible security for their websites and web
applications.
For such organizations, Akamai is now making available two new
offerings – Managed Kona Site Defender and Kona DDoS Defender.
These newly introduced services are designed to provide customers
with 24x7 monitoring and attack support through Akamai's globally
distributed Security Operations Center (SOC), staffed by more than
100 security experts at five locations worldwide. The Akamai global
SOC teams, which average more than 10 years of collective web
security experience and have earned crucial certifications such as
CISSP, CISA, GPEN, GSEC, CEH, GSEC, GIAC, GWAPT, and MSIS, help
protect online brands from the web's most insidious attacks every
day.
Backed by Akamai's threat research teams and Akamai Cloud
Security Intelligence, the Akamai SOC provides a collective
security model that can help organizations effectively respond to
even the newest threats on the web. Akamai's managed security
services are designed to decrease response time and increase
mitigation quality for all customers by institutionalizing
mitigation techniques and lessons learned beginning with the first
time a single customer is attacked.
Akamai's new managed security services include:
- Managed Kona Site Defender: An integrated web security
service designed to augment an enterprise's existing Kona Site
Defender deployments with Akamai's 24x7 SOC, resulting in more
hands on protection against the latest DDoS and web application
attacks. Managed Kona Site Defender offers emergency incident
response with 24x7 monitoring and attack support as well as ongoing
management of customers' security configurations and WAF tuning,
regular threat update reviews and security drill
facilitation.
- Kona DDoS Defender: A managed DDoS protection service
that combines the advanced DDoS mitigation technologies of the Kona
product family with Akamai's 24x7 SOC. Kona DDoS Defender provides
automated protection for websites and web applications against
today's most common DDoS attacks as well as custom analysis and
mitigation of the latest and most sophisticated attacks.
"Web attacks are increasing in frequency, scale and
complexity, and a successful attack can result in denial of
service, the theft of user data, or significant financial loss, all
of which can create serious implications for the business," stated
John Summers, vice president, Cloud
Security, Akamai. "To build robust, long-term security strategies,
enterprises need to consider going beyond simply employing the
right security technology. Access to experts who are able to keep
up with the changing threat landscape and provide round the clock
support to identify and thwart potential attacks is a critical
element to that successful security strategy."
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
This release contains information about future
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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