Akamai Introduces Two New Managed Security Service Offerings

Akamai Technologies, Inc. today introducedtwo new managed security service offerings available as part of the Company’s Cloud Security Solutions.Managed Kona Site Defenderand Kona DDoS Defender are designed to provide customers with 24×7 monitoring and attack support through Akamai’s globally distributed Security Operations Center (SOC), staffed by more than 100 security experts at five locations worldwide. The Akamai global SOCteams, which average more than 10 years of collective web security experience and have earned crucial certifications such as CISSP, CISA, GPEN, GSEC, CEH, GSEC, GIAC, GWAPT, and MSIS,  helps protect online brands from the web’s most insidious attacks every day.

Backed by Akamai’sthreat research teams and Akamai Cloud Security Intelligence, the Akamai SOC provides a collective security model that can help organizations effectively respond to even the newest threats on the web, the company said in a press release.

Managed Kona Site Defender isan integrated web security service designed to augment an enterprise’s existing Kona Site Defender deployments with Akamai’s 24×7 SOC, resulting in more hands on protection against the latest DDoS and web application attacks. Managed Kona Site Defender offers emergency incident response with 24×7 monitoring and attack support as well as ongoing management of customers’ security configurations and WAF tuning, regular threat update reviews andsecurity drill facilitation.

Kona DDoS Defender isa managed DDoS protection service that combines the advanced DDoS mitigation technologies of the Kona product family with Akamai’s 24×7 SOC. Kona DDoS Defender provides automated protection for websites and web applications against today’s most common DDoS attacks as well as custom analysis and mitigation of the latest and most sophisticated attacks.