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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: NASDAQ:) has launched Content Protector, a new security product designed to defend against scraping attacks while protecting an enterprise's legitimate traffic. This announcement was made today and marks the release of the first scraper-specific solution to the unique challenges posed by such attacks.
Scraping attacks are often carried out by bots and can serve both beneficial and malicious purposes in the digital commerce ecosystem. While these bots can help update product information and showcase products on comparison sites, they also pose risks such as reducing competitiveness, monitoring inventory hoarding, and facilitating counterfeiting. The persistent nature of scraping bots can result in poor website performance, poor user experience, and loss of consumer traffic.
Akamai's Content Protector takes a multi-layered approach to distinguish between malicious scraper bots and legitimate user traffic. protocol-level evaluation to verify connection reliability; application-level evaluation to check if business logic can be executed via JavaScript; user interaction analysis to distinguish between human and bot traffic; and use monitoring of user behavior to detect anomalous patterns that indicate anomalies. Bot's. It also provides a risk classification system that classifies traffic based on detected anomalies.
Rupesh Chokshi, senior vice president and general manager of application security at Akamai, emphasized that Content Protector is not just a security measure, but a business enabler. Aimed to protect your digital assets, improve site performance, and protect your brand reputation from the threat of counterfeit goods, thereby delivering direct business value and supporting your digital business growth with confidence. To do.
Akamai Technologies is known for its cloud services that power and secure online experiences for leading companies around the world. The Akamai Connected Cloud platform keeps threats at bay and brings applications and experiences closer to users.
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