Introduction to Akamai Hunt
Akamai Hunt is a robust managed threat hunting service designed to detect and remediate the most evasive security risks within your network environment. Spearheaded by cybersecurity experts from Akamai's threat intelligence and analytics teams, this service leverages data gathered from the Akamai Guardicore Segmentation solution to proactively search for threats, identify vulnerabilities, and fortify your infrastructure. By employing cutting-edge machine learning and AI technologies, the Hunt team is able to collect and correlate data from your environment and Akamai's platform to surface any suspicious activity, analyze the data to detect threats, and provide detailed real-time alerts for insights and mitigation. This comprehensive approach ensures that ongoing and emerging security events are promptly identified and addressed, minimizing dwell time and reducing mitigation time for critical incidents.
Real-Time Threat Detection and Mitigation
One of the key features of Akamai Hunt is its real-time threat detection capability. By continuously monitoring your network environment, the Hunt team is able to uncover ongoing attacks and provide rapid insights through instant notifications of critical incidents. This proactive approach to security monitoring empowers your team to focus on other IT priorities with the assurance that potential threats are being actively monitored and addressed. Additionally, Akamai Hunt offers context-rich threat intelligence, big data analysis, advanced detection algorithms, instant alerts on active threats and exposed vulnerabilities, expert investigation and remediation assistance, and monthly executive-level threat reports, ensuring that your organization stays ahead of evolving cyber threats.
Integration with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation
Akamai Hunt seamlessly integrates with the Akamai Guardicore Segmentation solution, allowing for enhanced security monitoring and threat detection. By leveraging the combined capabilities of these two products, organizations can detect breaches, harden against ransomware, apply granular software-defined segmentation, mitigate network level access, and deliver granular application access based on identity and context. The integration of Akamai Hunt with Guardicore Segmentation enables customers to reduce their attack surface, prevent lateral movement, and enforce Zero Trust principles inside a hybrid cloud infrastructure, thereby enhancing overall network security.
Customer Stories and Use Cases
For organizations seeking to enhance their cybersecurity posture, Akamai Hunt offers a range of customer stories and use cases that illustrate the practical applications of this threat hunting service. Through these real-world examples, businesses can learn how Hunt can help eliminate present security threats, virtually patch CVEs, and harden IT environments. By providing visibility into network flows, correlating data with threat intelligence, and facilitating quick remediation of identified threats, Akamai Hunt equips organizations with the tools and insights needed to bolster their defenses against cyber threats.