CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 11, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai
Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the world's largest and most
trusted cloud delivery platform, today announced that Info Security
Products Guide, the industry's leading information security
research and advisory guide, will honor Bot Manager Premier, as the
Gold winner 'Best Solution for Finance and Banking' and the 'Best
Solution for Online and eCommerce' in the 14th Annual 2018 Info
Security PG's Global Excellence Awards®. Akamai's bot management
solution was also named as the runner-up and Silver winner as the
'Most Innovative Security Service of the Year'.
These prestigious global awards recognize cybersecurity and
information technology vendors with advanced, ground-breaking
products, solutions, and services that are helping set the bar
higher for others in all areas of security and technologies.
Winners will be honored in San
Francisco on April 16, 2018
during the Global Excellence Awards annual red carpet awards dinner
and presentation.
"Being recognized by Info Security Products Guide in three
distinct and prestigious categories is a testament to our
customer-driven approach and properly understanding the varying bot
management needs and requirements across our different customer
types, as validated by our winning two very different and demanding
vertical market categories," said Ashutosh
Kulkarni, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Web
Security and Performance business units at Akamai. "I would also
like to extend a tip of the hat to our world class team of
engineers who work tirelessly to remain innovative in our approach
to bot management, recognizing that this complex security and fraud
management challenge requires addressing vastly different use cases
from credential stuffing, to web scraping, to good bot management,
and requires comprehensive protection for both transactional and
non-transactional web pages."
Bot Manager Premier is designed to help organizations manage the
impact of bots across their entire digital environment, including
websites, mobile applications and web APIs by offering:
- Advanced bot detection including behavior anomaly analysis
designed to thwart credential abuse, gift card balance checking and
other forms of web fraud aimed at login and transactional web
pages.
- A mobile protection module including a mobile SDK to enable
mobile app and API bot management.
- Advanced and conditional actions to give organizations the
power to manage different types of bots (e.g., scrapers, content
aggregators, etc.) in the manner that best meets their unique
business requirements.
Bot Manager Premier combines the visibility and scale of the
globally-distributed Akamai Intelligent Platform with bot-specific
capabilities to identify, categorize, manage, and report on bot
traffic. Bot Manager Premier identifies bots as they connect to
websites through a nearby Akamai Edge server, using a combination
of Akamai's visibility into worldwide bot activity, custom bot
signatures, and the real-time detection of unknown bots.
Organizations have the flexibility to manage identified bots
individually or create categories of bots, assigning different
management policies based on the desired interaction with each bot
or bot category. Bot Manager Premier helps organizations better
understand their bot traffic through the Security Center dashboard
and built-in Bot Activity and Bot Analysis reports.
According to the Frost & Sullivan Global Bot Risk Management
(BRM) Market Analysis, Forecast to 2022 (published January 31, 2018), what makes Akamai unique is
that "Akamai gains tremendous insight into attack trends from its
massive CDN network. The Akamai Intelligent Platform includes
230,000+ servers in over 1,600 partner networks in over 130
countries, with over 60 Tbps of capacity for delivering web
traffic. Akamai uses this vantage point to develop a holistic
understanding of bots, including types, characteristics,
activities, and trends. As a result, Akamai is better able to
identify bots. Additionally, Akamai gained advanced machine
learning technologies and user behavior and biometrics-based
detections from its acquisition of Cyberfend. These advanced
technologies, combined with Akamai's broad threat intelligence data
sources, provide the company with an important advantage in its
ability to identify and understand bot-related threats."
Earlier this week, Akamai was recognized by Frost & Sullivan
as a Market Leader in Bot Risk Management Solutions where
Chris Rodriguez, Senior Industry
Analyst, Frost & Sullivan said, "Akamai's wide range of bot
detection techniques, categories, responses, and flexible policies
allow customers to better manage their bot ecosystem, prioritizing
beneficial bots, throttling overly aggressive bots, and taking
defensive action against undesirable or malicious bots. Frost &
Sullivan believes, given the company's current innovative BRM (Bot
Risk Management) products and continued investment in product
research, that Akamai is poised for strong growth in the future as
well."
To learn more and see the award-winning Bot Manager Premier in
action, please visit the Akamai booth #N3625 in Moscone Center
North during the RSA Conference in San
Francisco, April 16-19,
2018.
About Akamai
As the world's largest and most trusted
cloud delivery platform, Akamai makes it easier for its customers
to provide the best and most secure digital experiences on any
device, anytime, anywhere. Akamai's massively distributed platform
is unparalleled in scale with over 200,000 servers across 130
countries, giving customers superior performance and threat
protection. Akamai's portfolio of web and mobile performance, cloud
security, enterprise access, and video delivery solutions are
supported by exceptional customer service and 24/7 monitoring. To
learn why the top financial institutions, e-commerce leaders, media
& entertainment providers, and government organizations trust
Akamai please visit www.akamai.com, blogs.akamai.com, or @Akamai on
Twitter.
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617-444-3019
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