Factual Product Summary
Prolexic from Akamai focuses on dDoS attack mitigation and traffic scrubbing. It is DDoS mitigation technology or service used for protecting availability during malicious traffic floods. Capabilities - DDoS attack detection: Identifies traffic associated with distributed denial-of-service activity. - Traffic scrubbing: Uses the documented filtering infrastructure to separate attack traffic from traffic that should be served. - Attack visibility and reporting: Provides information for assessing observed attack traffic and mitigation activity. - Mitigation orchestration: Supports applying the mitigation approach documented for the deployment. Use and operational context Prolexic is relevant to organizations safeguarding network or application availability when the requirement centers on protecting availability during malicious traffic floods. Scope the evaluation around the functions listed above and the assets or workflows that need coverage. A useful trial should use representative business conditions so the team can assess the quality of the results and the effort needed to act on them. Deployment and evaluation Deployment: Cloud service / SaaS. Before adoption, review traffic routing, attack coverage, mitigation activation and communication arrangements during an attack. Assign an owner for administration, document required permissions and identify how the product or service will fit the existing operating process. Buyer questions - What is the main purpose? Prolexic focuses on protecting availability during malicious traffic floods. - What should a proof of concept establish? Test the listed capabilities against representative assets and workflows, record useful results and unresolved gaps, and confirm who handles follow-up work. - What should be confirmed before purchase? Ask the vendor which edition or service scope includes the required features, which dependencies must be configured and what licensing or contract terms apply. Pricing has not been verified for this catalog.
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Deployment & Specifications
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- Cloud service / SaaS
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About the Vendor
Akamai offers a portfolio covering assessing suspicious login or account activity, understanding and protecting application interfaces, applying security rules to application requests, controlling communications and inspecting traffic and protecting availability during malicious traffic floods. The entries in this catalog include Account Protector, Akamai API Security, App & API Protector, Guardicore Segmentation and Prolexic. Account Protector focuses on account abuse detection and login risk assessment. Akamai API Security focuses on api discovery and behavioral threat detection. App & API Protector focuses on web application and api attack protection. When reviewing Akamai, compare the named products individually: a platform family, a specific module and a managed service can have different scopes and purchasing requirements. Selection should account for signal collection, risk thresholds, response integration and the effect of decisions on legitimate account holders. Portfolio detail - Account Protector: the catalog lists Account risk analysis, Account takeover protection, Credential abuse detection. - Akamai API Security: the catalog lists API inventory and discovery, API behavior analysis, API posture assessment. - App & API Protector: the catalog lists Web request filtering, OWASP attack coverage, Bot traffic controls. - Guardicore Segmentation: the catalog lists Workload communication segmentation, Network segmentation, Lateral movement controls. - Prolexic: the catalog lists DDoS attack detection, Traffic scrubbing, Attack visibility and reporting. For procurement, map each required capability to a named offering and confirm the edition, dependencies and delivery responsibility with the vendor. Product-level entries below provide the operational context and evaluation questions for that comparison.