Akamai's Web Application Firewall (WAF) is a highly scalable edge defense service with the ability to detect and mitigate potential attacks in http and SSL traffic as it passes through Akamai's EdgePlatform, before they reach the customer's origin data centers.
| WAF's distributed architecture enables both instantaneous scaling
of defenses as needed, plus filtering of corrupt traffic as close to the
attack source as possible—to keep your data, applications and
infrastructure in the clear. |  |
Benefits
Operational and Technical Benefits- Enable automatic, on-demand scaling to handle massive attacks
- Mitigate attacks at the source, away from the origin datacenter
- Eliminate need to provision and architect for Web application firewall failover
- Offload and augment existing security architecture
Benefits to your business- Mitigate business risks and improve brand and customer confidence by bolstering site’s security triad – Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability
- Reduce attack traffic bandwidth costs and resource usage
- Reduce operational costs associated with constant security infrastructure maintenance and upgrades
- Reduce capital expenditures on security hardware and software
- Eliminate expenses from overprovisioning and business risk from underprovisioning Web application firewalls
- Promote compliance with mandatory PCI requirements
WAF is suitable for: