Akamai
Centralized Protection
Akamai delivers centralized protection for applications, APIs, and infrastructure on a unified platform, enabling organizations to efficiently manage and control security.
Real-Time Defense
Detects and mitigates threats instantly using global threat intelligence and real-time traffic analysis, ensuring systems remain secure against evolving attacks.
Comprehensive Security Platform
Integrates security across access, applications, and network infrastructure, helping organizations reduce risk and maintain continuous operations.
Zero Trust Access
Akamai enables organizations to implement a modern Zero Trust model, where no user or device is trusted by default. Every access request is continuously verified based on identity, device posture, and risk context, rather than relying solely on network location.
Enforce Zero Trust access control to ensure that only authorized users and trusted devices can access critical systems.
- Authenticate and control access based on identity, device, and context
- Apply the principle of “never trust, always verify”
- Prevent lateral movement in the event of a breach
- Support ZTNA, MFA, and microsegmentation on a unified platform
Unified App & API Security
Akamai provides a unified security solution for web, mobile, and API applications, enabling organizations to effectively defend against increasingly sophisticated and rapidly evolving cyber threats. The platform integrates WAF, DDoS Protection, Bot Management, and API Security to deliver a multi-layered defense model from the Edge to the backend.
Key solutions include:
- App & API Protector (WAAP) – Comprehensive protection for applications and APIs with WAF, DDoS mitigation, and access control
- Advanced API Security – Advanced API discovery, monitoring, and protection, including shadow APIs
- Bot Manager – Mitigates malicious bots, preventing credential stuffing and scraping attacks
- Account Protector – Safeguards user accounts against takeover and fraud
- API Protection – Controls and secures API traffic in real time
- DDoS Protection – Mitigates Layer 3–7 attacks at global scale
- Client-side Protection & Compliance – Prevents data leakage at the browser level and ensures compliance
- Brand Protector – Detects and mitigates brand impersonation and phishing threats
- Content Protector – Protects digital content from theft and abuse
Infrastructure Security
Akamai protects enterprise IT infrastructure at a global scale through its distributed Edge platform, enabling attacks to be mitigated at the perimeter before reaching internal systems. Solutions such as DDoS Protection, DNS Security, and Network Firewall ensure system availability and performance under all conditions.
Key solutions include:
- Global DDoS Defense – Mitigates large-scale DDoS attacks, ensuring system stability and availability
- DNS Integrity Protection – Protects DNS infrastructure from threats such as spoofing, cache poisoning, and malicious queries
- Network Cloud Firewall – Controls and secures network traffic with flexible cloud-based security policies
- Fake Domain Takedown – Detects and removes fraudulent domains, reducing phishing and brand abuse risks