The Akamai Guardicore Platform simplifies
enterprise security with broad visibility and granular controls
through one console
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 30,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai Technologies, Inc.
(NASDAQ: AKAM), the cloud company that powers and protects life
online, today announced the Akamai Guardicore Platform helps
businesses meet their Zero Trust goals. The Akamai Guardicore
Platform is the first security platform to combine industry-leading
Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) and microsegmentation to help
security teams stop ransomware, meet compliance mandates, and
secure their hybrid workforce and hybrid cloud infrastructure.
Ransomware groups have become more aggressive in their methods
of both extortion and vulnerability exploitation, and have evolved
their tactics and techniques at a rate that prescriptive security
tools just can't keep up with. In fact, according to an Akamai
report, the rampant abuse of zero-day and one-day vulnerabilities
led to a 143% increase in victims when comparing Q1 2022 with Q1
2023.
"Security teams are under more pressure than ever as they face
ransomware threats and manage stringent compliance standards, all
while trying to consolidate vendors and manage budgets," said
Pavel Gurvich, Senior Vice
President, General Manager, Enterprise Security at Akamai. "As
organizations are adopting Zero Trust, they are looking for
simplified experiences that offer broad visibility and granular
controls for all assets and access policies. Security professionals
can deploy the Akamai Guardicore Platform as a single console to
consolidate agents and implement Zero Trust principles across
varied infrastructures."
The Akamai Guardicore Platform simply and efficiently enables
Zero Trust through a fully integrated combination of
microsegmentation, ZTNA, multi-factor authentication, DNS firewall,
and threat hunting. Furthermore, the microsegmentation component
specifically is getting a host of impactful improvements aimed at
streamlining workflows and enhancing security posture. Among these
are multi-factor segmentation that recognizes authentication checks
as part of microsegmentation rules, essential policy that enables
quick implementation of researched and best practice–based
policies, and integration of worksites to allow scoped
delegation.
Benefits of the Akamai Guardicore Platform include:
- Best-in-class solutions working better together
For
the first time ever, industry-leading microsegmentation
and industry-leading ZTNA can be leveraged as individual
assets or in tandem for greater value. A single agent, console, and
vendor for Zero Trust means more businesses will reach Zero Trust
than ever before.
- Broad Zero Trust coverage
Enforce Zero Trust
principles on-premises and in the cloud, and secure workforces
remotely and in the office.
- Unified policy engine
Enforce policy for east-west
traffic and north-south access, without having to change syntax or
consoles, for the simplest and most effective means of acting on
Zero Trust.
- Lightweight, consolidated infrastructure
A single
agent with maximum value where needed. Agentless coverage
everywhere else. Deploy quickly at enterprise scale with negligible
impact on system performance and downtime.
- Broad and rich visibility
Administrators can view all
assets and users like nodes, and their communications and access
like edges on a graph. Zoom in and out for high-level views or deep
analysis. This makes building a Zero Trust policy that addresses
east-west traffic and north-south access far less complex.
- Modular flexibility
Leverage exactly the modules
needed while remaining ready to add more capabilities when the time
is right. These include microsegmentation, ZTNA, DNS firewall, and
more.
Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) for Zero
Trust
The Akamai Guardicore Platform leverages AI to
simplify user experience, vulnerability assessments, compliance,
and incident response.
Features and benefits include:
- AI assistant
The Akamai Guardicore Platform
introduces AI to allow security professionals to ask natural
language questions of their network instead of manually poring
through logs, to drastically expedite a variety of use cases like
compliance scoping and incident response.
- AI labeling
Network labeling has been notoriously
difficult, manual, and time-consuming. The Akamai Guardicore
Platform leverages AI to simplify the process, examine how assets
are behaving, and suggest labels. These suggestions come with a
confidence score and an explanation as to why the label was
chosen.
Learn more about the Akamai Guardicore Platform and how
organizations can achieve their Zero Trust goals. Join our
webinar on May 23 at
11 a.m. ET to discover how to
streamline Zero Trust adoption and enhance security across your
hybrid infrastructure.
About Akamai
Akamai powers and protects life online.
Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and
secure their digital experiences — helping billions of people live,
work, and play every day. Akamai Connected Cloud, a massively
distributed edge and cloud platform, puts apps and experiences
closer to users and keeps threats farther away. Learn more about
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