Akamai: WAAP and DNS Solutions for High-Level Web Security

Protect Your Infrastructure with the Power of Akamai's WAAP and DNS Solutions

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Achieve Unmatched Security, Performance, and Availability with Akamai Edge DNS

Rely on a highly scalable and flexible DNS security solution that provides:

  • Comprehensive Security. Protect your DNS infrastructure against increasingly large, frequent, and sophisticated attacks, whether in the cloud, on-premises, or in hybrid environments.
  • Unmatched Performance. Leverage the world’s most distributed platform to offload origin traffic, ensure 24/7 availability, and reduce page load times.
  • Intuitive Management. Automatically configure and manage your DNS zones, and apply your own dynamic policies in real time.

Enhance the security and performance of your DNS using our powerful edge platform.

Ensure uninterrupted DNS availability.

Rely on a 100% uptime SLA (Service Level Agreement) and a resilient architecture for critical DNS.

Protect your on-premises and hybrid DNS assets

Safeguard and optimize your DNS investments on-premises and in hybrid environments.

Achieve peace of mind with secondary DNS

Strengthen DNS availability using internet-facing secondary zones.

How Edge DNS works

CONFIGURE

CONFIGURE

Customize your primary and secondary DNS zones through APIs or tools like Terraform, via the Akamai Control Center.

PROTECT

PROTECT

Leverage optional DNSSEC features to prevent attacks caused by DNS spoofing.

DEPLOY

DEPLOY

Provision, delegate, and update your zones, whether in the cloud or on-premises, via the Akamai Control Center to get up and running.

Protect Your On-Premises and Hybrid DNS Infrastructure

Akamai Shield NS53 is a reverse proxy solution designed to safeguard on-premises and hybrid DNS infrastructures, including GSLBs, firewalls, and name servers, against resource exhaustion attacks. Clients can self-configure, manage, and enforce their own dynamic policies in real-time.

Mitigate NXDOMAIN DNS Queries at the Edge

Protect your DNS infrastructure from NXDOMAIN attacks in real-time with dynamic, self-configurable security policies.

Enjoy Flexibility and Ease of Use

Self-configure and manage your security policies, rate controls, APIs, and zone transfers with an intuitive and user-friendly interface.

Boost Performance with Global Anycast

Reduce latency and enhance user experience with cached responses, global IP anycast, and the NAMES network offered by Akamai.

WAAP Solutions

WAAP solutions provide protection against growing threats.

WAAP stands for Web Application and API Protection, a class of security technologies designed to safeguard web applications and APIs from increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks.

Enhanced Security for Applications and APIs with Less Effort

Adapt Defenses to the Latest Threats

Dynamically adjust protections to counter evolving attacks, including those targeting OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities and sophisticated DDoS attacks.

 

Automate Updates and Self-Tuning for Simplified Security

Reduce the effort required for application security and development with Akamai-managed updates and self-tuning powered by machine learning.

 
 

Empower Developers and Security Teams

Streamline application security with popular DevOps tools and deploy seamlessly within a CI/CD pipeline.

 
 

How the App & API Protector Works

DIRECTION

DIRECTION

A core technology, the Adaptive Security Engine, learns attack patterns and adapts to emerging cybersecurity threats.

DEFENSE

DEFENSE

All requests are inspected in real-time to protect against DDoS attacks, web application and API threats, and malicious bots.

ADAPTATION

ADAPTATION

The automated defense of the Behavioral DDoS Engine safeguards your organization from sophisticated volumetric attacks.

Features

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  • Adaptive protections automatically deploy the latest defenses for applications and APIs, including zero-day and CVE protections.
  • Proactive self-tuning eliminates the time-consuming manual patching of security vulnerabilities in web services.
  • DDoS protection blocks network attacks at the edge and defends against application-layer threats, enabling secure and rapid web application innovation.

DDoS Protection

Robust, behavioral DDoS defense for all layers—whether in the cloud, on-premises, or within hybrid architectures.

Defend Against Modern, Sophisticated Attacks

Today’s businesses face the constant threat of sophisticated and well-orchestrated DDoS attacks. Akamai’s DDoS protection, built on dedicated infrastructure, safeguards your internet-facing applications and systems while ensuring a fast, highly secure, and always-available DNS.

With Akamai, you can stop DDoS attacks and malicious traffic in the cloud before they reach your applications, data centers, and infrastructure—without relying on multiple firewalls.

Enhance Security for Applications and APIs with Less Effort

Ensure Business Continuity

Operate with confidence, knowing your DDoS defense is backed by dedicated infrastructure.

Optimize Protection for Your Use Cases

Maintain a fast, always-available DNS with segmented resources in non-overlapping clouds.

Gain Full Control Over Traffic Before It Reaches Your Servers

Stop attacks in the cloud and free up internal resources.

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

Eliminate Network Risks with Industry-Leading Micro-Segmentation

Prevent Lateral Movement with Granular Controls

Safeguard your organization’s critical assets with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation.

  • Fast. Utilizes software-based segmentation to prevent attackers from accessing your most sensitive information, outperforming slower infrastructure-based approaches.
  • Simple. Easy to deploy and manage, empowering IT teams with the visibility and control needed to apply Zero Trust principles across data centers, multi-clouds, and endpoints.
  • Intuitive. Blocks malicious lateral movement within your network by enforcing precise segmentation policies based on comprehensive visual insights of your environment.

A Better Way to Achieve Zero Trust Segmentation

Reduce Your Attack Surface

Leverage a software-based micro-segmentation approach to minimize risks without the need for expensive security hardware.

Prevent Lateral Movement

Use a unified platform to detect lateral movement and threats in real-time throughout the cyberattack kill chain.

 
 
 

Protect Critical IT Assets

Easily enforce Zero Trust principles in hybrid cloud ecosystems to secure critical assets against ransomware.

How Akamai Guardicore Segmentation Works

MAPPING

MAPPING

Sensors, data collectors, and logs map your network to provide a unified view of assets and infrastructure.

CREATE

CREATE

Simplify security policy creation with predefined templates and workflows, with no limitations on allow/deny rules.

VIEW

VIEW

View past or real-time activity at the user and process level to quickly identify potential violations.

Features

ResourcesDiscover now and understand the real reasons why you should buy this product!

  • Granular micro-segmentation down to individual processes and services.
  • Simplified forensic analysis with near real-time and historical visibility.
  • Broadest platform coverage for both legacy technology and modern systems.
  • Customized threat-hunting services powered by Akamai Security Research.

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