Akamai Technologies, Inc. announced on October 16, 2024, the availability of its Behavioral DDoS Engine for the App & API Protector solution. This new capability leverages machine learning to provide automatic, proactive protection against application-layer distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The engine offers advanced detection and mitigation by analyzing anomalies and correlating multidimensional traffic data, ensuring robust defense against sophisticated and evolving DDoS threats.
The Behavioral DDoS Engine provides customized, hands-off protection tailored to specific traffic baselines and risk sensitivities, minimizing manual intervention. It optimizes detection with a unique scoring mechanism that reduces false positives and leverages global DDoS intelligence from the Akamai platform for automatic updates and modernized defense.
Additionally, Akamai introduced a new AI Assistant, embedded directly in its web security analytics. This feature allows users to quickly filter and query security insights across various data attributes, including attack types, IPs, countries, and threat scores, via an intuitive chat-based interface. This aims to streamline data exploration and improve investigation efficiency for security teams.
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