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Akamai launches services to secure web

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BANGALORE, INDIA: Akamai Technologies, Inc., a provider in video, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, today announced that it has expanded its cloud-based suite of security capabilities with the introduction of its Web Application Firewall managed service. 

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Based on the open source ModSecurity Core Rule Set supported by Breach Security, the Akamai Web Application Firewall service is designed to protect against the most common and harmful types of attacks and exploitation techniques such as SQL Injection, Cross Site Scripting (XSS) and other Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Top-10 attacks.

The service provides customers with a unique approach to easily and economically defend their Web applications.  With no hardware to manage or maintain, customers manage their own security rule set through Akamai’s customer portal.  Additionally, the Akamai Web Application Firewall service helps enable Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard compliance, said a press release.

“While threats to network and information security will always exist, the complexity and scale of cyber attacks is exploding, forcing enterprises to face the daunting challenge of defending an increasingly porous perimeter,” said Tom Leighton, co-founder and chief scientist, Akamai. 

He further said that cloud-based security offers an innovative approach to helping organizations overcome the limitations of traditional perimeter solutions by adding a globally-distributed layer to their defenses.  They believe their service is also essential for cloud computing, as infrastructure is shared across multiple customers.  When leveraging shared computing resources, it is vital that your application does not become compromised by an attack directed at another enterprise.

“The Akamai Web Application Firewall service is designed to secure enterprises at the HTTP application layer by enabling both instantaneous scaling of defenses as needed, as well as filtering of corrupt traffic as close to the attack source as possible,” added Andy Ellis, chief security architect at Akamai.