Akamai Expands Offerings in Hybrid DNS Infrastructure Security

Bengaluru, India April tenth, 2024:Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cloud firm that powers and protects life on-line, at present introduced the launch ofAkamai Shield NS53, a product that protects on-premises (on-prem) Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure from useful resource exhaustion assaults. These assaults overwhelm servers to the purpose that they’ll not reply to legitimate DNS queries. The new providing enhancesAkamai Edge DNS, which is a complete cloud-based DNS answer, andAkamai Prolexic, the industry-leading distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) safety platform for Layer 3 and Layer 4 assaults.

Over the previous three years, there was a major enhance in the quantity and the dimensions of DDoS assaults on DNS infrastructure. In the fourth quarter of 2023, greater than 60% of the DDoS assaults mitigated by Akamai had a DNS part, emphasizing why the safety, availability, and reliability of crucial DNS infrastructure stays a excessive precedence for digital infrastructure safety leaders. If the DNS infrastructure of a enterprise or establishment goes down, their on-line presence additionally goes down, inflicting reputational harm and monetary losses.

“Akamai acknowledges the safety challenges confronted by our clients and our companions in a quickly evolving risk panorama, and we concentrate on providing sturdy DDoS safety for all key entry factors to their digital infrastructure, whether or not on-prem, in cloud, or hybrid,” stated Sean Lyons, SVP and GM of Infrastructure Security at Akamai. “Organizations are searching for a greater approach to handle the rising quantity of DNS/DDoS assaults they face yearly. With the launch of Shield NS53, clients can relaxation assured their servers can have no downtime, and so they can as a substitute concentrate on enterprise operations.”

Akamai processes greater than 11 trillion DNS requests each day and finds that roughly 40% of DNS queries for the highest 50 monetary companies clients are illegitimate NXDOMAIN queries, often known as DNS useful resource exhaustion assaults. Security leaders can now quickly and simply deploy Akamai Shield NS53 to guard their on-prem and hybrid DNS infrastructure from such assaults. This answer helps clients by:

• Acting as a protect between cybercriminals and demanding digital propertyto cease illegitimate DNS queries on the fringe of Akamai’s community whereas responding to legit queries both from cache or forwarding them to the client’s unique DNS server, thereby enhancing its safety, availability, and efficiency.

• Proactively constructing customized DNS safety insurance policies,which may be self-configured by clients utilizing the Akamai Control Center or APIs. Customers have full management over their dynamic coverage configurations and information, and may implement their insurance policies in actual time.

• Improving the efficiency and the ROI of present DNS infrastructureby performing as a bidirectional proxy service, decreasing latency and enhancing person expertise. Additionally, Shield NS53 improves and optimizes the overall price of possession and the ROI of consumers’ investments in their present on-prem or hybrid DNS infrastructure.

Akamai is leveraging its world accomplice ecosystem and intensive on-premises enterprise infrastructure safety experience to help clients in onboarding Akamai Shield NS53. The new answer is out there instantly from Akamai’s strategic companions resemblingCarahsoft in North America, and from further approved companions globally. Organizations can go to theAkamai Partner Directory to discover a accomplice for his or her area, orcontact us for assist.