{"id":50914,"date":"2023-03-07T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/3689700\/akamai-releases-new-threat-hunting-tool-backed-by-guardicore-capabilities.html#tk.rss_security"},"modified":"2023-03-07T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T12:12:00","slug":"akamai-releases-new-threat-hunting-tool-backed-by-guardicore-capabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/akamai-releases-new-threat-hunting-tool-backed-by-guardicore-capabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Akamai releases new threat hunting tool backed by Guardicore capabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Akamai on Tuesday launched Akamai Hunt, a visibility tool that uses the infrastructure of microsegmentation<\/a> platform Guardicore<\/a> to allow customers to identify and remediate threats and risks in their cloud environments.<\/p>\n

Akamai acquired Guardicore in October 2022 for about $600 million. Akamai Hunt combines Akamai\u2019s historic data with Guardicore\u2019s network segmentation and visualization capabilities to help identify and eliminate threats.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn earlier version of Hunt was available through Guardicore to a limited set of customers,\u201d Pavel Gurvich, senior vice president and general manager of Akamai\u2019s Enterprise Security Group said. \u201cNow, as part of Akamai’s integration of Guardicore\u2019s technology and telemetry, we have scaled, expanded, and enhanced the service to meet broader demand from customers with larger environments.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hunt combines in-house telemetry with global threat data<\/h2>\n

Hunt identifies threats and risks by analyzing telemetry data from Akamai customer\u2019s environment and cross-referencing it with high-priority global threat intelligence. It performs big data analytics on the combined data to query suspicious and anomalous activities<\/p>\n

\u201cThe acquisition also opened up access to a very large data set of attacks, seen through Akamai\u2019s global domain naming system (DNS<\/a>), web application firewall (WAF<\/a>) and distributed denial of service attack (DDoS<\/a>) footprints, that have improved Hunt\u2019s detection abilities,\u201d Gurvich said. \u201cIn addition to this new, massive scale, Akamai Hunt is built on an improved engine architecture that runs 100 times faster than before and handles the collection and analysis of events to reduce time to detection.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hunt has dedicated security experts to assist customer security operation centers (SOCs<\/a>) in the remediation of threats, patching of vulnerabilities, and hardening of IT infrastructures.<\/p>\n