How Akamai Security Helps Protect Your APIs and Apps

Akamai provides all-in-one security and protection for APIs and applications. Preserve your application performance while shoring up your security with one of the world’s most trusted cloud service providers. Akamai has decades of proven experience keeping some of the world’s largest websites safe from attack. Akamai’s API and app security solutions provide the industry’s most comprehensive protection for your APIs and apps, including:

• DDoS attack prevention through API rate limiting and throttling
• Regulatory compliance with built-in security controls
• 24/7 real-time monitoring and reporting of API traffic and activity
• Advanced threat detection and response

The biggest threats against Apps and APIs

There are dozens of potentially malicious attack types, but two are most prevalent: DDoS attacks and malicious bots. Akamai’s customizable security solutions can help protect your applications and services from both threats. DDoS attacks can bring down even the most well-prepared website or application. Akamai’s DDoS attack prevention solutions utilize a global network of servers to absorb and deflect DDoS traffic before it ever reaches your applications. Even if your application is DDoS attacked, Akamai’s always-on DNS services will maintain your organization’s availability, so you don’t experience a disruption. Malicious bots can wreak havoc on websites and applications, stealing data, launching DDoS attacks and committing fraud. Even the least disruptive apps can throw off your traffic and your metrics and make it difficult for you to determine the success of your campaigns. Akamai’s bot management solutions detect and block malicious bots while allowing good traffic. And this is true even as bots become more intelligent and more complex. With Akamai’s API and app security solutions, you gain a holistic solution to potential APP and app security threats. You can maintain the security of your web apps, cloud apps and APIs without having to maintain an army of developers or expert security specialists. Akamai app security provides a complete inventory of easily customized solutions.

App and API protector

Akamai’s App and API protector provides a complete database of potential attacks—updated in real-time so you can track newly evolving threats. Akamai’s managed updates will keep your organization at the forefront of security news, while the system’s machine-learning self-tuning will adapt and evolve on-the-fly. Solutions include adaptive protections, advanced API discovery, DevOps integration, deep attack visibility, fast onboarding and advanced security management. As more and more businesses move their applications and data to the cloud, they are increasingly exposed to new risks. Cloud-native applications are particularly vulnerable to attacks, as they often lack the comprehensive security measures that are in place for on-premises applications. The Akamai App and API protector provides all-in-one protection.

Prolexic DDoS defense

Everything you need to detect and defend against DDoS attacks is available through Akamai’s Prolexic. Prolexic has blocked some of the largest DDoS attacks in history, will work to shore up your attack surfaces and provides incident response 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Services provided include high-capacity protection, unified security postures, intelligent defense stacks, positive security models, 100% SLA-supported platform availability and flexible delivery service. DDoS attacks can take many forms, but they all have one goal: to take your site or application offline by flooding it with traffic from multiple sources. Today, they’re exceptionally hard to defeat because they can mimic real traffic. With Prolexic, you can stop even the most sophisticated attacks with ease.

Page integrity manager

Identify potential client-side threats before they become a problem. The Page Integrity Manager identifies and acts against potentially malicious code, catches attacks in real time and can be deployed quickly and easily on an existing web application. Services include behavior detection, vulnerability-focused policies, flexible deployment, prioritized real-time alerts, policy management and intuitive reporting. Cloud applications have an expanded attack surface, constantly vulnerable to threats. Real-time alerts, policy management and reporting ensure that your organization is constantly aware of threats as they occur—and can address them before the issues become more serious.

Edge DNS

Secure web apps and APIs on the edge with Edge DNS. Edge DNS provides non-stop DNS availability through service-level agreements, with various tools to avoid disruption. Organizations can use a second DNS as a failover service and maintain 100% uptime even when under attack. Services include global IP anycast, secure implementation, DNSSEC, DNS as code, a trust-based model and availability first. In today’s modern world, your DNS is everything. Through Akamai’s Availability First services, you can secure your web applications from disruption and ensure non-stop DNS availability. Akamai won’t just help you avoid attacks but will help you maintain uptime and availability during an attack.

Managed security services

An all-in-one security service provided by world-class experts. Engage with Akamai’s managed security services for 24/7 monitoring by experts and continuous access to technology specialists. Gain a complete support team, shore up your security and align your strategies. Akamai has some of the most talented threat intelligence experts in the business. Services include rapid incident response, advisory services, nonstop optimization, operational readiness and rich reporting. As companies operate in increasingly complex landscapes, it becomes prohibitively expensive to manage a support team or security internally. If you need access to technology specialists or just someone to put out fires all day, Akamai can help.

Protect your APIs and apps with Akamai

With Akamai, you gain an out-of-the-box solution for securing sites, apps, APIs and your core infrastructure. Your organization will immediately gain in-browser, bot management, DDoS protection and secondary DNS services; everything your organization needs to stay up and ready in one place. Akamai’s comprehensive approach to security means that your APIs and applications are protected against all types of attacks, whether network-based, application-level or malicious insiders. Every solution can be customized to your organization’s infrastructure and needs—and everything is always cost-effective and scalable. Akamai has industry-leading expertise within the threat intelligence and detection industry. Through Akamai’s current, real-time intelligence, you can stay abreast of threats as they’re discovered—and mitigate them before they can impact your organization. However, while Akamai is a powerful tool, it’s one best used with an expert partner. Talk to veteran managed services providers like Red River to see how they can help you get the most out of Akamai. Today’s companies are built on their APIs and apps. Protect yours with Akamai and MSPs like Red River.