Prolexic leads the industry in DDoS protection by providing a solution that is:
Flexible. Always-on or on-demand, Prolexic has options for every environment with Prolexic On-Prem (powered by Corero) and Prolexic Hybrid.
Comprehensive. Go beyond DDoS protection with Prolexic Network Cloud Firewall. It’s a firewall at the edge in front of your disparate firewalls and diverse origins.
Incoming traffic is routed to Prolexic — in-cloud, on-premises, or hybrid — to act as a shield against DDoS attacks.
Prolexic inspects traffic and applies proactive or custom mitigation controls designed to detect and stop attacks instantly.
Prolexic separates attack traffic from valid traffic and eliminates the potential of overload and outages in real time.
Only clean traffic is allowed to reach your systems, preventing denial of service and ensuring your users always get the fast load times they expect.
All DDoS mitigation is not created equal. See how many cloud service providers fall short, and what to look out for.
Akamai Prolexic is the industry’s largest DDoS platform, available in-cloud, on-prem (powered by Corero), or as a hybrid. Prolexic offers protection inline/ datapath, at the edge, or through several scrubbing centers in more than 32 global locations and a staggering 20 Tbps dedicated defense capacity.
All of Akamai’s scrubbing centers will provide DDoS protection for your traffic. Prolexic uses anycast routing to mitigate attack traffic closest to the source while applying the collective capacity of the global platform to mitigate the largest attacks. Prolexic On-Prem, powered by Corero, also offers scrubbing in-house, with the option to use cloud-based scrubbing for large sustained attacks that threaten to overload on-prem capacities.
Prolexic is available as always-on or on-demand, so you can choose the best solution for your business. Always-on is our most popular solution, with all inbound traffic routed through Prolexic. With on-demand, your traffic is only routed during an attack event by your network team. Akamai also offers a facilitated route-on service that can manage the solution for your team, if needed.
For the Prolexic Routed option, you need to have a /24 subnet mask, a router that can do generic routing encapsulation (GRE), and hardware. We also encourage all customers to set the maximum segment size of all packets to improve GRE tunnel stabilization. For customers with less than a routable IPv4 /24 and/or IPv6 /48, fragmented IP space, or cloud-hosting provider, the Prolexic IP Protect option provides the same level of DDoS protection via IP anycast to route symmetric traffic through Akamai scrubbing centers.
With more than 225+ frontline responders across six global locations, the Prolexic fully managed service includes pre-, during, and post-mitigation attack review and analysis by our 24/7 SOCC to help optimize DDoS mitigation and incident response.
With Akamai’s capacity and intelligence, we can mitigate attacks that sometimes exceed 400 gigabits per second and recover almost immediately.
Arash Haghighi, Senior Manager of IT Infrastructure and Security
Learn how Akamai’s DDoS protection assists with these specific needs
Prolexic has proactive mitigation controls that stop more than 98% of the attacks instantly with a zero-second SLA and a proven ability to stop highly complex, record-breaking attacks without sacrificing quality of mitigation.
Prolexic enables DDoS mitigation policies to be applied consistently, regardless of where applications are hosted, helping to unify your security posture.
We work with you to create custom runbooks and service validation exercises, and perform operational readiness drills to help ensure business continuity if an attack were to occur.
Network service providers, ISPs, hosters, cloud vendors and companies offering SaaS, PaaS, or IaaS use Prolexic not only to protect their infrastructure and platforms, but also offer it as a value-added service to generate incremental revenue and enhance the competitiveness of their main offerings.
Our flexible deployment model means you can bring your scrubbing service in-house and minimize or eliminate egress costs. Prolexic On-Prem is powered by on-prem veteran Corero — and yes, if an attack is so large that your links could be incapacitated, this can be combined to a hybrid solution with Prolexic’s cloud-based DDoS platform, which adds 20+ Tbps defense capacity, over 32 cloud scrubbing centers globally, and zero-second, 100% uptime SLAs.
Avoid added latency from traffic hauling and external scrubbing for data-intense real-time services like video, gaming, voice, or multimedia applications. Our hybrid solution lets you bring DDoS defense on-premises while still getting the benefits of Prolexic’s massive cloud-based defense capacity to fend off very large, sustained attacks.
Want to see an insider’s view of the DDoS threat landscape?
Sign up for a personalized DDoS threat briefing with a security expert. We’ll walk you through:
Industry-specific threats and attack trends
Akamai’s DDoS insights backed by our team of 300+ security researchers
Mitigation strategies personalized for your organization’s attack surface
