DDoS mitigation and protection technology launched by Akamai

Akamai has announced the launch of a true-time web security monitoring and attack mitigation technology.

Named the Kona Site Defender, the cloud-hosted technology is in the Akamai services platform that the corporate manages on behalf of the user. It said that this is often offered as a sizable-scale intelligent security solution.

According to the corporate, the service is designed to offer protection to companies by shielding their websites, applications and associated data within the face of accelerating and more complex attacks. Akamai said Kona Site Defender is designed to guard enterprises from multi-vectored distributed denial of service (DDoS) and alertness-layer attacks.

Speaking to SC Magazine, Joel Reid, regional sales manager for enterprise at Akamai, said this was an evolution of its security capabilities, an always-on solution that permits organisations to have the advantages of the Akamai security technology in front of the appliance.

He said: “You can get scale without acceleration technologies and may use this to realize security advantages at the application layer; it's all in the single product.”

The platform monitors the velocity of requests coming from individual IP addresses and gathers statistics on each, allowing users to dam any address it truly is behaving in an abusive way, comparable to sending too many requests per second or causing too many origin errors.

Reid said: “This is a differentiator, where we're very with regards to the top-user. We will be able to mitigate an attack where we see attacks and block a countryside.”

Also featured is a sophisticated security monitor that offers real-time knowledge of a domain or application being attacked, in addition to the aptitude to retrieve detailed information on who's attacking, what they're attacking, which defence capabilities triggered the attack declaration and what specifically was seen within the requests that triggered site defences.

John Summers, vice-president of the protection business at Akamai, said: “With the introduction of Kona Site Defender, we're offering what we believe is find out how to reply to an ever-changing and, in lots of ways, ever-more-hostile online environment.”