Akamai announced significant additions to its flagship Akamai App & API Protector product, including advanced defenses against sophisticated application-layer distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The enhanced Layer 7 DDoS protections now precisely detect and mitigate short DDoS attack bursts and use client reputation scores for improved rate limiting. An additional new capability, URL Protection, ensures the availability of mission critical URLs, APIs, and microservices by smartly prioritizing legitimate traffic during highly distributed attacks. App & API … More
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