Web Application Resources

This case study highlights how Douglas Omaha Technology Commission (DOTComm) utilized Akamai's Web Application Protector solution to resolve its unplanned site outages and improve its site's security posture.

Web applications have increasingly become the heart of an organization’s operations—from public safety to infrastructure, taxes, and voting. They represent a critical link between you and your constituents. While protecting these inbound applications is now an essential part of an agency’s responsibilities, the increasing volume and types of vulnerabilities and attacks—especially to the web layer—strain IT department resources. Akamai Web Application Protector (WAP) provides speed, availability, and security in a simple, cloud-based form from the leader in Web Application Firewalls.

Cyberthreats have evolved and accelerated. Have your defenses? Ransomware, student privacy breaches, and denial of service attacks are widespread. Critical vulnerabilities and attacks are increasingly targeting the web layer, overwhelming IT departments and budgets from small elementary schools to the largest universities. Akamai Web Application Protector is like instantly adding 1,000 security experts to your staff. Akamai, the world’s largest and most trusted cloud delivery company, provides contextual, accurate, and dynamic security without requiring a huge investment in hardware, software, or people.

Amid a surge in the remote workforce, escalating attacks and increased service demand, trust in the security and availability of your services and information is critical. Kona Site Defender includes a rich collection of predefined configurable application-layer firewall rules that are constantly updated by Akamai threat research. This intelligence — curated from both machine learning and human analysis — provides the most advanced and accurate detection.

With modern web pages relying heavily on scripts, bad actors are exploiting scripts as a new attack vector to steal sensitive customer information. Recent script-based attacks such as Magecart have increased in sophistication and are difficult to detect, let alone stop. Increasingly, these web-skimming attacks focus on stealing credit card information and account credentials, damaging your brand and subjecting your organization to substantial fines.With modern web pages relying heavily on scripts, bad actors are exploiting scripts as a new attack vector to steal sensitive customer information. Recent script-based attacks such as Magecart have increased in sophistication and are difficult to detect, let alone stop. Increasingly, these web-skimming attacks focus on stealing credit card information and account credentials, damaging your brand and subjecting your organization to substantial fines.