Akamai Technologies, Inc. engages in the provision of security, delivery, and cloud computing solutions in the United States and internationally. The company offers security solutions that include web application and application programming interfaces (API) protection solutions, which protect web, API, and mobile app traffic from attacks.
The Bot & Abuse portfolio provides solutions to help customers protect against threats. Akamai Account Protector offers full account lifecycle protections, including the ability to defend against account takeover and opening abuse, adversarial bot protection, protection against credential stuffing, inventory scalping, and hoarding. Akamai Content Protector provides solutions designed to stop persistent scrapers from stealing content. API security discovers, audits, and monitors APIs, while microservice and application component protection analyzes and protects application traffic that moves between application components.
The company also offers cloud computing services, which include compute, storage, networking, database, and container management services. The Akamai App Platform provides ready-to-run templates that address challenges in deploying, managing, and scaling Kubernetes clusters at scale.
In addition, Akamai offers delivery solutions that include web and mobile performance solutions, which enable dynamic websites and applications, as well as global traffic management, site acceleration, application load balancing, large-scale load testing, and real-user monitoring. Media delivery solutions include video streaming and video player services, game and software delivery, broadcast operations, authoritative domain name system resolution, and data and analytics.
Akamai Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
