Report states: "We're living in the golden age
of microsegmentation"
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 28,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai Technologies,
Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cloud company that powers and
protects life online, today announced it was named a Leader in The
Forrester Wave™: Microsegmentation Solutions, Q3 2024 report.
Forrester evaluated 11 total vendors in the microsegmentation space
based on 23 criteria grouped by current offering, strategy, and
market presence. Akamai received the highest scores possible in
flow and asset discovery, policy management, ZTNA integration,
incident response, pricing flexibility and transparency, supporting
services and offerings, revenue, and number of customers
criteria.
The report notes, "Today's solutions can quickly tighten your
security posture by blocking risky ports and applying other broad
horizontal security policies."
Forrester writes that "Akamai Guardicore shows off true
innovation with ZTNA integration and multifactor." The report goes
on to state that "Akamai Guardicore was a Leader in the previous
Forrester Wave on microsegmentation as well. Since then, the vendor
has released a steady stream of microsegmentation-related
innovations like multifactor segmentation, as well as integrations
with the parent company's ZTNA solution, DNS firewall, and threat
intelligence (Akamai Hunt)."
The Akamai Guardicore Platform simply and efficiently enables
Zero Trust through a single agent that fully integrates
microsegmentation, ZTNA, multi-factor authentication, DNS firewall,
and threat hunting. Furthermore, Akamai updated the
microsegmentation component with a host of improvements designed to
streamline workflows and enhance security postures, including new
AI-powered features designed to simplify the user experience. These
include 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.
"For us, being recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Wave is a
testament to our commitment to our customers, and validates the
hard work and dedication of our team," said Pavel Gurvich, Senior Vice President, General
Manager, Enterprise Security at Akamai. "We are honored to be
acknowledged as a leader in this evaluation and remain committed to
keep pushing the boundaries to help our customers achieve their
goals."
Read more about the Akamai Guardicore Platform and how
organizations can achieve their Zero Trust goals.
About Akamai Security
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business at every point of interaction, without compromising
performance or customer experience. By leveraging the scale of our
global platform and its visibility to threats, we partner with you
to prevent, detect, and mitigate threats, so you can build brand
trust and deliver on your vision. Learn more about Akamai's cloud
computing, security, and content delivery solutions
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