Akamai Technologies has expanded its cloud-based suite of security capabilities with the introduction of its Web Application Firewall managed service. Implemented on EdgePlatform, the service provides an edge defense system for blocking web application attacks in the cloud.
According to Akamai, the Web Application Firewall service, based on the open source ModSecurity Core Rule Set supported by Breach Security, is designed to protect against attacks and exploitation techniques such as SQL Injection, Cross Site Scripting (XSS) and other Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) attacks.
The company said that the new service enables customers to manage their own security rule set through its customer portal. In addition, it also helps to enable payment card industry data security standard compliance.
Andy Ellis, chief security architect at Akamai, said: “The Akamai Web Application Firewall service is designed to secure enterprises at the HTTP application layer by enabling both instantaneous scaling of defenses as needed, as well as filtering of corrupt traffic as close to the attack source as possible.
“Attacks vary in degree from small and devious, to large and brute-force; and Akamai’s Web Application Firewall is the right architecture to address both. We’ve defended customers from application layer attacks on the magnitude of over 100Gbps, demonstrating that massive distribution at the edge is critical as malicious activity grows in size and complexity.”
