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October 2019 - What's New in Security?
The October 2019 Release includes enhancements to Akamai security products with many new and updated capabilities. Highlights and capabilities that our customers have been particularly excited about include: The Bot Intelligence Console provides greater visibility into the bot landscape, allowing you to benchmark against your industry vertical or the platform as a whole, and see everything that Akamai knows about any individual bot. KRS Evaluation Mode makes it easier to
Tune Your WAF with Greater Confidence using KRS Eval ...
Tuning a web application firewall can be a daunting task. Security teams invest significant time and energy testing WAF rules in order to gain the confidence necessary to set them to deny. But as soon as the application changes or new or updated WAF rules are available, they have to do it all over again - only this time, without knowing if the rule changes will improve their security posture
What's New in Web Application Protector
Web Application Protector (WAP) is adding some exciting new capabilities in the October 2019 Release. Akamai designed WAP to provide automated protection for your websites and APIs from DDoS and web application attacks. As such, one of the primary objectives (besides providing best-in-class protections) has always been operational simplicity. We continuously improve our products, working closely with our customers that use them every day. This release introduces a redesigned and
Enhance Visibility into the Bot Landscape with Bot I ...
If you could have all the visibility that Akamai has into bot traffic, what would you do with it? That's been a common theme in conversations with many of our customers over the past year. Bot Manager provides a range of dashboards and reporting tools designed to help you better understand how bots are interacting with your websites and applications. But you've asked for more. You want to see how
Facilitated Route-On: A Better Approach to Hybrid DD ...
Hybrid DDoS has always been an interesting concept. From a vendor perspective, it's not hard to understand the motivations behind it. The vendors pushing hybrid DDoS are the same ones that have been selling DDoS mitigation appliances for years and were late to join the industry-wide shift to cloud. Hybrid DDoS allows them to continue selling their on-premises appliances, while buying time to build out and learn how to operate
October 2019 - What's New in Media?
Today, Akamai announced the October 2019 Release, which introduces new capabilities to our Media product line with a focus on helping customers accelerate their cloud transformation using the power of the edge. Within Media, the new enhancements are highlighted by: Scalable forensic watermarking support from the Akamai Edge, pre-integrated with leading third-party providers to provide a more effective way to trace piracy back to the source. The new Access Revocation
Quickly Extend Live Streams with VOD Clipping
Time is always of the essence to extend compelling video content such as sporting events and concerts and make the most of media rights windows. This is especially true for catch-up TV, highlight creation, time-shifting 24/7 simulcast streams, and social sharing. At Akamai, we are continually making improvements that make it easier to extend content monetization, including a service that simplifies video-on-demand (VOD) clip creation from live streams in an
Pixel Perfect. Enhanced Optimizations Focused on Cus ...
I remember the days when brands captivated users online with dancing aliens (LowerMyBills.com) and Elf Yourself advertising campaigns (OfficeMax). In this new digital era, however, customers are smarter, more powerful, and dictate more than ever how and when they interact with brands. More important than price or product, customer-centric business models are the new competitive differentiator. Positive customer experiences are not only critical for corporate branding but can significantly impact
Faster On-Boarding for Performance and Security Prod ...
As part of our October release, we are making our onboarding experience much faster and simpler. These benefits are extended to new customers looking to onboard and protect new hostnames on Akamai - as well as existing customers looking to spin up, test, and protect new functionality within their site or applications.