New Capabilities Designed to Improve Cloud Security, Accelerate Time to Value, and Streamline Operations for Cloud Applications
Akamai, the intelligent edge platform for securing and delivering digital experiences, recently announced enhancements designed to help businesses accelerate their cloud migration strategy. The new features protect content, apps, and APIs, accelerate web and mobile experiences, and help make development teams more agile as they move to the cloud. Rick McConnell, President and General Manager of Akamai’s Web Division had this to say
“Eighty-five percent of companies today have a hybrid cloud strategy, but many have begun to realize that the cloud brings significant challenges to security, operations, and cost management. Cloud migration introduces complexity that can slow app deployments, cause cost overruns, and expose businesses to previously unknown security risks. With enhancements to our platform, Akamai surrounds and extends client infrastructures, leveraging the edge and advanced security to alleviate cloud challenges.”
Enhancing Security
Akamai has expanded its portfolio of adaptive security capabilities that are architected to enhance protections while enabling businesses to deliver excellent user experiences. New offerings can intelligently serve or block access to content with a fully integrated Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Domain Name System (DNS) proxy detection service.
To fight the growing threat of increasingly sophisticated bots, Akamai has continued to develop technologies designed to improve visibility into malicious botnet activities on customer sites as well as those targeting other businesses. In addition to enhanced detections in the company’s bot management solution, Akamai has also improved self-serviceability, enabling customers to finetune their own settings for advanced bot detection and deploy agile defenses against fast-evolving automated threats. Akamai also now supports automated protections of API traffic, new attack groups across its web application firewalls, and advanced throttling capabilities in its API Gateway solution.
Accelerate Time to Value
Akamai has also launched new capabilities designed to help organizations innovate faster and gain greater agility. Automating adaptive acceleration capabilities including HTTP/2 performance optimizations and loading font libraries can improve user experiences. To further improve security, Akamai is now making TLS 1.3 delivery standard.
To learn more about the March 2019 updates to the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform, visit akamai.com/march2019.
