Akamai Technologies extends protection to reduce attack surfaces

Akamai
Technologies,
the
cloud
company,
has
introduced
the
Akamai
Hunt
security
service.
The
service
is
designed
to
enable
customers
to
capitalise
on
the
infrastructure
of
Akamai
Guardicore
Segmentation,
Akamai’s
global
attack
visibility,
and
expert
security
researchers
to
Hunt
and
remediate
the
most
evasive
threats
and
risks
in
their
environments.

Akamai
also
released
Agentless
Segmentation,
helping
Akamai
Guardicore
Segmentation
customers
extend
the
benefits
of
zero
trust
to
connected
IoT
and
OT
devices
that
aren’t
capable
of
running
host-based
security
software.

As
organisations
embrace
digital
transformation
and
workforces
continue
to
evolve,
ransomware
and
other
advanced
attacks
are
still
a
threat
to
business
continuity
and
overall
brand
trust,
costing
more
than
$20
billion
in
2021
alone,
the
company
states.

To
combat
these
threats,
IT
administrators
must
take
new
approaches
to
safeguard
their
networks,
intellectual
property
and
employees
through
the
zero
trust
frameworks
and
microsegmentation
to
stop
lateral
movement
within
the
network.

Pavel
Gurvich,
Senior
Vice
President
and
General
Manager,
Enterprise
Security
at
Akamai,
says,
“Microsegmentation
is
proven
to
defend
against
ransomware
and
other
attacks
by
greatly
reducing
attack
surfaces
in
complex
and
dynamic
environments.

“These
new
offerings
for
Akamai
Guardicore
Segmentation
customers
will
extend
protection
to
devices
that
have
historically
been
difficult
to
secure
and
will
provide
the
extra
visibility
and
analysis
necessary
to
fend
off
the
most
evasive
threats.”

Akamai
Hunt
combines
the
infrastructure,
telemetry
and
control
of
Akamai
Guardicore
Segmentation
with
the
data
that
Akamai
has
by
delivering
much
of
the
world’s
internet
traffic.
Now
customers
can
eliminate
threats
in
their
environment,
virtually
patch
vulnerabilities,
and
improve
their
IT
hygiene.

Other
benefits
include
the
following:

• Unique
  dataset:
  Rich
  telemetry
  from
  the
  customer’s
  environment
  correlated
  with
  priority
  global
  threat
  data
  enables
  Hunt
  to
  find
  evasive
  threats
  and
  risks.
• Big
  data
  analysis:
  Massive
  data
  is
  correlated
  and
  queried
  for
  suspicious
  and
  anomalous
  activity
  that
  other
  tools
  miss.
• Expert
  investigation:
  Dedicated
  security
  experts
  investigate
  detections
  to
  ensure
  teams
  are
  not
  bogged
  down
  by
  false
  positives.
• Alerts
  and
  monthly
  reports:
  Detailed
  alerts
  provide
  the
  information
  required
  for
  mitigation,
  while
  monthly
  reports
  provide
  an
  executive
  overview.
• Guided
  mitigation:
  Hunt
  experts
  assist
  in
  the
  remediation
  of
  threats,
  patching
  of
  vulnerabilities,
  and
  hardening
  of
  IT
  infrastructures.
  Securing
  IoT
  and
  OT
  devices
  has
  traditionally
  been
  a
  challenge
  for
  most
  organisations.

With
Akamai
Agentless
Segmentation
organisations
are
now
able
to
reduce
their
attack
surface,
and
enforce
zero
trust
policies
on
devices
that
can’t
run
host-based
security
software.

Other
features
include:

• Continuous
  device
  discovery:
  Automatically
  discover
  new
  network-connected
  devices
  and
  execute
  predefined
  device
  onboarding
  workflows.
• Integrated
  device
  fingerprinting:
  Identify,
  assess,
  and
  categorise
  all
  connected
  devices
  to
  ensure
  that
  appropriate
  security
  policies
  are
  applied.
• Visualisation
  of
  enterprise
  assets:
  View
  IoT
  and
  OT
  devices,
  traffic,
  and
  interactions
  with
  endpoints,
  servers,
  and
  cloud
  assets
  throughout
  the
  enterprise.
• Agentless
  zero
  trust
  segmentation:
  Enforce
  agentless
  least-privilege
  segmentation
  policies
  and
  quarantine
  suspicious
  devices
  through
  direct
  integration
  with
  network
  control
  points.
• Roaming
  device
  awareness:
  Maintain
  device
  visibility,
  context,
  and
  control
  as
  devices
  move
  between
  different
  areas
  of
  your
  wired
  and
  wireless
  network
  infrastructure.

Akamai
Agentless
Segmentation
will
be
available
for
Akamai
Guardicore
Segmentation
customers
in
Q2
2023.

About Author

AndyC

Andy Curtis is an award-winning security consultant, researcher and public speaker. He has been working in the computer security industry since the early 1990s, having been employed by state and federal government, leading healthcare and banking providers across three continents. He has given talks about computer security for some of the world’s largest companies, worked with law enforcement agencies on investigations into hacking groups, and is a regular voice on TV and radio explaining IT security threats.

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