Akamai continues to demonstrate its commitment
to helping customers achieve their Zero Trust goals
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 19,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai Technologies, Inc.
(NASDAQ: AKAM), the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that
powers and protects business online, today announced that it is
extending its industry-leading segmentation solution, Akamai
Guardicore Segmentation, to support agentless enforcement for cloud
native resources in Amazon Web Services (AWS), further expanding
its existing capabilities in cloud environments. In addition,
Akamai added new features to its Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)
product, Akamai Enterprise Application Access. These features aim
to enhance application performance while providing a superior user
experience.
Nearly one third (32%) of cybersecurity breaches involved
ransomware or extortion, according to the Verizon 2024 Data Breach
Investigations Report. The same report found that ransomware was a
top threat across 92% of industries. These statistics highlight the
need for organizations to implement a comprehensive Zero Trust
framework to defend against the rapidly growing threat
landscape.
Akamai Guardicore Segmentation available on AWS
While
organizations of all sizes are implementing public cloud strategies
to innovate and realize new efficiencies, challenges remain.
Leveraging Akamai Guardicore Segmentation in the cloud helps
organizations address a lack of visibility into application
behavior, the need to configure disparate security policies across
cloud providers, and governance issues between DevOps and SecOps
teams.
Akamai Guardicore Segmentation provides seamless
microsegmentation for multicloud and on-premises environments, now
complemented by agentless support for platform as a service (PaaS)
resources across Azure and AWS.
"We're giving Akamai customers the visibility and security
controls they need to protect their cloud environments — while
ensuring a smooth single-pane-of-glass experience — by seamlessly
delivering the applications and services users rely on," said
Ofer Wolf, Senior Vice President,
General Manager, Enterprise Security at Akamai. "Whether our
customers are on-prem, in the cloud, or leveraging IaaS or PaaS
capabilities, we're making sure they can focus on growing their
business and serving their customers, not stress about their Zero
Trust journey."
Benefits of Akamai Guardicore Segmentation in the cloud
include:
- Agentless cloud native visibility and enforcement
enables administrators to visualize cloud workloads using a
near-real-time interactive map of true network flows, understanding
the application dependencies and bringing together DevOps and
SecOps teams in cloud network security governance.
- A hybrid enforcement engine leveraging multiple enforcement
points allows an organization to simply define the intent of
network policy and have the Akamai Guardicore Segmentation policy
engine take care of the rest, dynamically deciding which
agent-based and agentless enforcement points are used across the
data center.
- Integrated reputation analysis and DNS firewall
capabilities are designed to reduce time to detection and
incident response time in the event of a breach.
- A scalable and secure solution ensures data does not
leave cloud environments and the solution architecture scales
automatically within it.
Learn more about Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and how it
can contain attacks within public cloud environments.
Akamai Enterprise Application Access updates
Thanks to
Akamai's unique global infrastructure, Enterprise Application
Access is well suited for global organizations seeking to provide
secure access for their entire workforce. Enterprise Application
Access runs using Akamai Connected Cloud's edge delivery and
distributed cloud compute capabilities, helping organizations
deliver fast and secure access to applications and services for
employees whether they are in the office or remote. Enterprise
Application Access can run as a stand-alone solution or on top of
the Akamai Guardicore Platform as part of the unified Zero Trust
suite with UI, policy, and agent or agentless capabilities.
"Proximity matters when it comes to delivering Zero Trust
Network Access that touches every employee in an organization,"
said Wolf. "With Enterprise Application Access, we're utilizing
Akamai Connected Cloud to help organizations deliver a fast and
seamless experience for users that gives them access to the
applications and services they need to do their jobs. Users expect
business applications to start quickly and respond efficiently.
Slow applications cause frustration and lead to an increase in IT
support calls. With Enterprise Application Access, we're helping to
eliminate that frustration."
According to the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for
Zero-Trust Networking 2024, published on July 15, 2024, "Cloud-based ZTNA offerings
improve scalability and ease of adoption for secure remote
access."* Deploying ZTNA infrastructure close to where applications
are hosted and users are working helps organizations ensure that
applications are fast and responsive, providing a superior end-user
experience. Organizations can help solve performance issues for
in-office users by eliminating hairpinning, ensuring consistent and
fast application access without additional hardware costs or
deploying additional software.
New features and benefits of Akamai Enterprise Application
Access include:
- Edge transport helps enable fast, responsive end-user
experiences by embedding performance optimization directly into the
application path. The new capability can deliver reliable, stable
performance for remote application access regardless of the end
user's or application's location; that includes environments with
degraded internet connectivity or when transferring files using the
SMB protocol.
- Local point of presence (PoP) allows organizations to
apply ZTNA policies locally for in-office users and ensures optimal
application performance by eliminating the need to route traffic to
an Enterprise Application Access cloud PoP. A local PoP can make
file downloads two to three times faster and noticeably improve
application speed compared to routing traffic to an Enterprise
Application Access cloud PoP.
Learn more about how Akamai Enterprise Application Access
enables organizations to provide fast and secure Zero Trust Network
Access for their workforce.
*GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner,
Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally, and
HYPE CYCLE is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its
affiliates and are used herein with permission. All rights
reserved
About Akamai
Akamai is the cybersecurity and cloud
computing company that powers and protects business online. Our
market-leading security solutions, superior threat intelligence,
and global operations team provide defense in depth to safeguard
enterprise data and applications everywhere. Akamai's full-stack
cloud computing solutions deliver performance and affordability on
the world's most distributed platform. Global enterprises trust
Akamai to provide the industry-leading reliability, scale, and
expertise they need to grow their business with confidence. Learn
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