New Delhi [India], April 26 (ANI/PRNewswire): Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cloud company that powers and protects life online, today announced the availability of Brand Protector, a new solution that detect and disrupt phishing sites, fake stores, and brand impersonations. Brand Protector enables organizations to retain and grow customer loyalty while minimizing loss, drops in productivity and bad customer feedback. According to Google, over 50,000 new phishing websites are created every week. Akamai Brand Protector inspects trillions of digital activities a day across both internal and external sources to discover abuse of an organization's brand - often before an attack campaign launches. This shields businesses from revenue loss and increased risk by combating fake goods sales, phishing sites and unauthorized use of brand elements outside of its environment and across the internet. Brand Protector addresses the problem of fraudulent impersonations with a four-st
New Delhi [India], April 26 (ANI/PRNewswire): Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cloud company that powers and protects life online, today announced the launch of its Prolexic Network Cloud Firewall. This new capability of Akamai Prolexic allows customers to define and manage their own access control lists (ACLs) while enabling greater flexibility to secure their own network edge. Prolexic is Akamai's cloud-based DDoS protection platform that stops attacks before they reach applications, data centers and internet-facing infrastructure. DDoS threats are on the rise again, a trend that is being accelerated by the growing number of businesses and organizations that rely on online services to operate. An increasing availability of DDoS tools and services on the dark web makes it easier for attackers to launch these types of attacks. The growing number of internet-connected devices and the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) has created a larger attack surface for cybercrimi
SYDNEY, April 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cloud company that powers and protects life online, today announced the availability ofBrand Protector, a new solution that detect and disrupt phishing sites, fake stores, and brand impersonations. Brand Protector enables organizations to retain and grow customer loyalty while minimizing loss, drops in productivity and bad customer feedback. According to Google, over 50,000 new phishing websites are created every week. Akamai Brand Protector inspects trillions of digital activities a day across both internal and external sources to discover abuse of an organization's brand - often before an attack campaign launches. This shields businesses from revenue loss and increased risk by combating fake goods sales, phishing sites and unauthorized use of brand elements outside of its environment and across the internet. Brand Protector addresses the problem of fraudulent impersonations with a four-step approa
New Capability Expands Prolexic Protections with Firewall and Access Control Capabilities SYDNEY, April 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cloud company that powers and protects life online, today announced the launch of its Prolexic Network Cloud Firewall. This new capability of Akamai Prolexic allows customers to define and manage their own access control lists (ACLs) while enabling greater flexibility to secure their own network edge. Prolexicis Akamai's cloud-based DDoS protection platform that stops attacks before they reach applications, data centers and internet-facing infrastructure. DDoS threats are on the rise again, a trend that is being accelerated by the growing number of businesses and organizations that rely on online services to operate. An increasing availability of DDoS tools and services on the dark web makes it easier for attackers to launch these types of attacks. The growing number of internet-connected devices and the rise of
SINGAPORE, March 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ Akamai Technologies, Inc.(NASDAQ: AKAM), the cloud company that powers and protects life online, revealed that Akamai mitigated the largestDDoS attackever launched against a customer based in Asia. In a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, an attacker overwhelms its target with unwanted internet traffic so that normal traffic cannot reach its intended destination. Fig. 1: The attack was intense and short-lived, and was fully pre-mitigated On February 23, 2023, Akamai mitigated the attack which recorded traffic peaking at 900.1gigabits per second and 158.2 million packets per second. The attack was intense and short-lived, with most attack traffic bursting during the peak minute of the attack. Traffic patterns returned to normal after only a few minutes (Figure 1). The attack was distributed across Akamai's scrubbing network, with all 26 of Akamai'sfleet of scrubbing centerswitnessing some amount of attack traffic. However, this w