Advanced Programmatic Management
Akamai's Kona Site Defender offers advanced programmatic management tools and resources to help you maximize the security of your applications. With features like Cloud Manager, API access, and CLI deployment, developers can easily deploy and manage virtual machines, configure networking settings, and control user accounts efficiently. This user- and mobile-friendly interface makes it simple to monitor and safeguard your applications against potential threats.
Custom Image Creation
One of the key features of Akamai's Kona Site Defender is the ability to create custom images for your applications. This feature allows you to easily create, store, and deploy one image across multiple machines, streamlining the process of managing your infrastructure. By leveraging custom images, you can ensure consistency across your application environment, making it easier to maintain security standards and optimize performance.
Infrastructure as Code Support
In addition to custom images, Akamai's Kona Site Defender supports infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform and Ansible. By using the Linode Terraform Provider and Ansible Collection, developers can declaratively manage their cloud infrastructure, provision and configure resources across multicloud environments, and automate routine tasks efficiently. This approach to infrastructure management offers scalability, reliability, and repeatability, ensuring your applications are secure and well-managed.
Monitoring and Alerting Capabilities
With Kona Site Defender, monitoring and analyzing the performance of your applications is made easy. The platform provides performance graphs and transfer usage tracking directly from Cloud Manager, allowing you to stay informed about the health and efficiency of your applications. Moreover, custom alerts can be set up to notify you when specific thresholds are reached, ensuring proactive management of potential issues and vulnerabilities.
Collaborative Security Features
Akamai's Kona Site Defender also offers robust collaborative security features to accelerate your business processes. By leveraging user permissions and collaboration tools, teams can work together securely and efficiently to protect applications and data. This collaborative approach ensures that security measures are in place across the development and deployment lifecycle, enabling organizations to enhance their security posture and streamline operations.