Protecting Websites from Attack with Secure Delivery Networks

Author

Gillman, David ; Yin Lin ; Maggs, Bruce ; Sitaraman, Ramesh K.

Author_Institution

Akamai Technol., FL, USA

Volume

48

Issue

4

fYear

2015

fDate

Apr. 2015

Firstpage

26

Lastpage

34

Abstract

Secure delivery networks can help prevent or mitigate the most common attacks against mission-critical websites. A case study from a leading provider of content delivery services illustrates one such network´s operation and effectiveness. The Web extra at https://youtu.be/4FRRI0aJLQM is an overview of the evolving threat landscape with Akamai Director of Web Security Solutions Product Marketing, Dan Shugrue. Dan also shares how Akamai´s Kona Site Defender service handles the increasing frequency, volume and sophistication of Web attacks with a unique architecture that is always on and doesn´t degrade performance.

Keywords

Web sites; security of data; Web attacks; Website protection; content delivery services; mission-critical Websites; secure delivery networks; Computer crime; Computer security; Firewalls (computing); IP networks; Internet; Protocols; Akamai Technologies; DDoS attacks; DNS; Domain Name System; Internet/Web technologies; Operation Ababil; SQL injection; WAF; Web Application Firewall; XSS; cache busting; cross-site scripting; cybercrime; distributed denial-of-service attacks; distributed systems; floods; hackers; secure delivery networks; security;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MC.2015.116

Filename

7085639