Akamai is a leading security provider with unparalleled visibility into internet activity. The company partners with service providers to secure business assets, web resources, and workers. Akamai’s subscriber-facing services grow revenues, enhance differentiation, and improve retention.
Protect the Business with Security Everywhere
When it comes to security, there are lots of factors to consider as attackers target everything and constantly alter the manner of their exploits to avoid detection. The picture gets even more complicated when applications are distributed to take advantage of cloud agility, economy, and scale. Additionally, enabling workers to stay connected from anywhere boosts productivity but also increases complexity.
It’s difficult to stay ahead; security models need to adapt. Akamai’s Intelligent Edge Platform—the largest and most distributed compute network—offers security where customers need it, when they want it. Akamai’s network touches every corner of the globe, with 4,200 points of presence (PoP) spanning 1,400 providers. It encompasses applications, infrastructure, and people, and enforces consistent security policies on a global scale. Akamai’s threat intelligence is updated constantly to ensure it responds to today’s dynamic threats.
Akamai protects web resources, data centers, and business applications regardless of where they’re located.
All types of devices, including phones and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, are supported irrespective of where they connect. Akamai can integrate with structured security architectures such as secure access service edge (SASE) and help achieve cost reductions by eliminating appliances and reducing operational overhead.
- Application Security: Stops user data theft, account takeover attacks, and audience hijacking that can directly impact the bottom line. It also prevents site scraping, content corruption, and bot attacks that can degrade the user experience and complicate site operations.
- Zero Trust: A strategic approach that removes implicit trust across users, devices, networks, data, and applications. Zero Trust doesn’t assume everything behind corporate firewalls is safe. It assumes a breach could occur at any moment and applies least-privileged access to every request, regardless of where it originates. Akamai’s solution provides secure access control, blocks malware and ransomware spread, and defends against phishing and web-based threats.
- Infrastructure Security: Protects operational technology against threats like distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks with laser precision to prevent resource exhaustion and site takedowns and shuts down domain name system (DNS) attacks that can disrupt services by taking critical domains offline.
Protect Subscribers with Effortless Security
Families and businesses are aware of the threats they face on the internet, and they’re looking for solutions. Utilizing Akamai Secure Internet Access services, internet service providers (ISPs) and mobile network operators (MNOs) are well-positioned to fulfill that demand. They can demonstrate a commitment to protecting their customers, generate additional revenue, enhance differentiation, and improve retention.
Purpose-built products designed for mainstream consumer and business markets deliver safe and secure internet. Private access solutions protect enterprise employees, applications, and data. Providers can convey their own brands and identity, and cloud options help maximize market reach and revenue potential.
Threat Intelligence Fueled by Extraordinary Visibility into Internet Activity
Attackers are agile, and Akamai’s threat defenses are too.
The company keeps up with the latest threats (so its customers don’t have to) with visibility into billions of attacks daily. Dedicated teams of researchers use specialized tools to analyze enormous volumes of live traffic destined for Akamai’s networks. Automation maximizes the efforts of human experts and ensures attacks that originate in faraway places can be identified and automatically blocked before they cause damage around the world.
Today’s exploits are diverse and sophisticated. Advanced algorithms developed by Akamai researchers are expanding the coverage of known threats and uncovering previously unknown attacks. Massive capacity and a unique vantage point means an extraordinary range of internet exploits can be deterred. These powerful protections are easy to activate and manage.
Recent examples include deterring more than 5.15 billion web application attacks and more than 6,800 DDoS attacks in Q4 2021, and blocking more than 71 billion malicious login attempts in Q2 2021.
Unmatched Commitment to Service Providers
Akamai has more experience with service providers than any other security vendor.
The company can protect businesses from harm while enabling subscriber-facing services that help grow revenue, enhance differentiation, and improve retention.
Providers serving more than 600 million fixed and mobile subscribers rely on Akamai security services. Akamai has sustained strategic partnerships with providers since 1999 and boasts a dedicated team of 1,900+ experts equipped with the strategic expertise to support its services and customers. Akamai’s engineering teams focus exclusively on provider products and markets, having ensured innovation and market leadership in this space for over 21 years.
