Who is Akamai?

Akamai is our selected DNS vendor for the MDBR service. The cybersecurity company operates Enterprise Threat Protector (ETP), a carrier-grade recursive DNS service which is integrated into the MDBR service. ETP is built on the global Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform and is a quick-to-configure, easy-to-deploy Secure Web Gateway (SWG) that requires no hardware to be installed and maintained.

ETP has multiple layers of protection that leverage real-time Akamai Cloud Security Intelligence and multiple static and dynamic malware-detection engines to proactively identify and block targeted threats such as malware, ransomware, phishing, and DNS-based data exfiltration. Every requested domain is checked against Akamai’s real-time threat intelligence, and requests to identified malicious domains are automatically blocked.

This intelligence is built on data gathered 24/7 from the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform, which manages up to 30% of global web traffic and delivers up to 2.2 trillion DNS queries daily. Akamai’s intelligence is enhanced with hundreds of external threat feeds, and the combined data set is continuously analyzed and curated using advanced behavioral analysis techniques, machine learning, and proprietary algorithms. As new threats are identified, they are immediately added to the Enterprise Threat Protector service, delivering real-time protection.