CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 9, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cloud
company that powers and protects life online, today released a new
study showing Akamai Guardicore Segmentation delivered a total
benefit of US$9.6 million over three
years and paid for itself (i.e., payback period) in less than six
months for a composite organization based on interviewed customers.
Forrester's The Total Economic Impact™ Of Akamai Guardicore
Segmentation also found it delivered a 152% return on investment
(ROI) and saved more than US$2.9
million by reducing or eliminating legacy systems like
traditional firewalls.
Findings from the study include:
- Recouped US$4.1 million over
three years. Organizations that use Akamai Guardicore
Segmentation can minimize their attack surface, leading to reduced
downtime and an increase in revenue retention from 1.4% to 2% over
a three-year period, respectively.
- Incident management effort reduced by 70% by year 3.
With network microsegmentation with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation,
the composite organization's security operations (SecOps) and
network operations (NetOps) teams can detect and respond to
potential threats faster and more effectively.
- Streamlined operations require fewer cybersecurity
resources. With Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, the composite's
SecOps and NetOps teams easily visualize microsegmentation,
implement policy in a single dashboard, and simplify security
posture and validation. This resulted in an organization needing
33% fewer cybersecurity professionals, which led to savings of
nearly US$1.4 million over three
years.
- More than US$2.9 million saved
by reducing or eliminating legacy systems. With Akamai
Guardicore Segmentation, the composite organization manages its
existing firewalls more granularly by reducing its east-west
firewalls footprint, improves network visibility, and ensures
continued network and security
Study respondents also reported unquantified benefits, including
the ability to integrate Akamai Guardicore Segmentation with
existing security tools like security information and event
management (SIEM) and endpoint detection and response (EDR).
Respondents also noted advantages like using professional services
to identify additional use cases, improved job satisfaction for
cybersecurity professionals, and greater productivity for the IT
team.
Respondents reported that one of the features that they were
looking for in a microsegmentation solution was for it to be
deployed more quickly with out-of-the-box templates, especially
compared with firewalls, while having the flexibility of grouping
and labeling and allowing for the ability to customize policies
over time.
Customers chose Akamai Guardicore Segmentation to prevent
lateral movement of threats and reduce attack surface, enhancing
overall security. Customers found that with Akamai Guardicore
Segmentation they were able to improve the visibility into their
network traffic and interactions between systems to detect and
respond to potential threats more effectively. With Akamai
Guardicore Segmentation, customers were better able to protect
legacy systems critical for their operations but were previously
vulnerable to modern cyberthreats.
"By implementing Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, organizations
can reduce their incident management efforts, streamline operations
to require fewer cybersecurity resources, and improve visibility
and control — all while realizing a 152% return on investment,"
said Ofer Wolf, Senior Vice
President, General Manager, Enterprise Security at Akamai. "This
study emphasizes how Akamai is helping our customers contain
threats and stay ahead of attackers while protecting both their
systems and data."
Study methodology
Akamai commissioned Forrester
Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and
examine the potential ROI that enterprises may realize by deploying
Akamai Guardicore Segmentation. The purpose of this study was to
provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential
financial impact of Akamai Guardicore Segmentation on their
organizations.
To better understand the benefits, costs, and risks associated
with this investment, Forrester interviewed five representatives
with experience using Akamai Guardicore Segmentation. For the
purposes of this study, Forrester aggregated the interviewees'
experiences and combined the results into a single composite
organization that is a global organization in a highly regulated
industry with US$1 billion in annual
revenue and 5,000 employees at 10 global locations.
What customers who participated in the study are saying about
Akamai Guardicore Segmentation
- "The biggest benefit [of Guardicore] is having more security
resilience to avoid security incidents and cyberattacks. And that's
due to enhanced visibility." — Director of IT Security, Healthcare
Services
- "Is Guardicore worth it? It's all about compartmentalizing and
segmentation, which is key for any network. The benefits of
automated discovery and visualization are paramount. When you talk
about consistent deployment and less errors in deployment policies
around the globe, [it's] absolutely [worth it]. And when you talk
about effective breach remediation, which is absolutely paramount
and really being able to sleep at night knowing that we've done the
right thing, [it's] absolutely [worth it]." — Infosec Director,
Financial Services
- "We had a security breach in 2023. Post recovery, we needed to
increase the overall security posture of the organization. One of
[the goals was to enhance] network segmentation to prevent lateral
movement. That's what led us to select Guardicore." — Head of
Infrastructure, Enabling Software
- "What tilted things in favor of Guardicore? Legacy operating
system support was one of the big ones that some of the [competing
products] did not support. The other piece was the scalability and
visibility, as well as the ease of the learning period through
enforcement." — Infosec Officer, Specialty Manufacturing
Learn more about Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and how it
can help organizations on their Zero Trust journey.
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 more at
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