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Akamai Unveils Machine Learning That Intelligently Automates Application and API Protections and Reduces Burden on Security Professionals
Edge platform enhancements increase responsiveness and augment security decision-making CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai Technologies,
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[{"type":"text","content":"Edge platform enhancements increase responsiveness and augment security decision-making\n\n\nCAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the world's most trusted solution for protecting and delivering digital experiences, today announces platform security enhancements to strengthen protection for web applications, APIs, and user accounts. Akamai's machine learning derives insight on malicious activity from more than 1.3 billion daily client interactions to intelligently automate threat detections, time-consuming tasks, and security logic to help professionals make faster, more trustworthy decisions regarding cyberthreats.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nIn its May 9 report Top Cybersecurity Threats in 2021, Forrester estimates that due to reasons \"exacerbated by COVID-19 and the resulting growth in digital interactions, identity theft and account takeover increased by at least 10% to 15% from 2019 to 2020.\" The leading global research and advisory firm notes that we should \"anticipate another 8% to 10% increase in identity theft and ATO [account takeover] fraud in 2021.\" With threat actors increasingly using automation to compromise systems and applications, security professionals must likewise automate defenses in parallel against these attacks to manage cyberthreats at pace.\nNew Akamai platform security enhancements include:\nAdaptive Security Engine for Akamai's web application and API protection (WAAP) solutions, Kona Site Defender and Web Application Protector, is designed to automatically adapt protections with the scale and sophistication of attacks, while reducing the effort to maintain and tune policies. The Adaptive Security Engine combines proprietary anomaly risk scoring with adaptive threat profiling to identify highly targeted, evasive, and stealthy attacks. The dynamic security logic intelligently adjusts its defensive aggressiveness based on threat intelligence automatically correlated for each customer's unique traffic. Self-tuning leverages machine learning, statistical models, and heuristics to analyze all triggers across each policy to accurately differentiate between true and false positives.\nAudience Hijacking Protection has been added to Akamai Page Integrity Manager to detect and block malicious activity in real time from client-side attacks using JavaScript, ...