Akamai and Datadog Partner to Detect, Investigate, and Respond to Threats Across Applications and Workloads

Companies combine security information and event management (SIEM) technology with Zero Trust solutions to help increase enterprises' overall security posture.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cloud company that powers and protects life online, today announced a partnership with Datadog, the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, that will enable organizations to integrate Datadog Cloud SIEM with Zero Trust solutions Akamai Enterprise Application Access and Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise. The integration will help organizations increase their overall security posture, reduce risk, and expand the operational efficiency and effectiveness of security operations teams. This represents the next step in the Technology Partner Program that previously integrated Akamai's application and infrastructure security solutions.

An Akamai report found that the exploitation of zero-day and one-day vulnerabilities led to a 143% increase in total ransomware victims between Q1 2022 and Q1 2023. In addition, the report found that ransomware groups have been increasingly exfiltrating files as their primary source of extortion. This underscores the importance of improving network visibility and enforcing Zero Trust principles to keep systems, data, and people secure.

"As organizations move to implement a Zero Trust framework, it's important that they have the necessary visibility into the network needed to enforce policies and standards," said Pavel Gurvich, Senior Vice President, General Manager, Enterprise Security at Akamai. "Datadog and Akamai can help organizations accelerate their transition to Zero Trust and minimize the friction and complexity of legacy SIEM solutions."

"Visibility and the enforcement of Zero Trust principles are key to protecting organizations of any size, across application stacks and cloud providers," said Yash Kumar, Senior Director of Product at Datadog. "Together with Akamai, we can help security teams quickly ingest security event data, analyze it, and mitigate potential threats."

Benefits of the Akamai and Datadog partnership for customers include:

    --  Enhanced visibility. When coupled with Akamai's Zero Trust solutions,
        the Datadog SIEM provides continuous monitoring and allows security
        teams to scrutinize every transaction and access request to enhance
        threat detection capabilities.
    --  Improved threat detection and response. The Datadog SIEM analyzes vast
        amounts of data in real time to correlate events and identify potential
        incidents or anomalies. When coupled with Akamai's Zero Trust solutions,
        unusual behavior or unauthorized access will trigger an alert to enable
        rapid incident response and enhance the ability to mitigate potential
        threats.
    --  Contextual insights. Combining Datadog Cloud SIEM's log and event data
        with Akamai's Zero Trust solutions, organizations gain rich contextual
        insights into user and device behaviors. This context aids in
        determining the legitimacy of access requests and enables organizations
        to make better decisions when granting or denying access.
    --  Compliance and regulatory adherence. Datadog Cloud SIEM systems
        naturally help organizations meet compliance requirements with detailed
        logs, reports, and audits of security events. When combined with
        Akamai's Zero Trust solutions, compliance efforts are strengthened with
        continuous monitoring and control over access that aligns with various
        regulatory standards.
    --  Holistic risk management. The combination of Datadog Cloud SIEM and
        Akamai's Zero Trust solutions enables a more holistic approach -- from
        applications to the cloud to risk management -- and allows organizations
        to proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risks by continuously
        monitoring and analyzing network activities, which reduces the
        likelihood of a successful attack.

Learn more about how Akamai and Datadog are helping organizations increase their overall security posture.

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