Akamai Technologies provides security, delivery, and cloud computing solutions in the United States and globally. It offers security solutions that include web application and application programming interfaces (API) protection solutions, which protect web, API, and mobile app traffic from attacks.
Its portfolio also includes Bot & Abuse portfolio, which provides solutions to help customers protect against threats, full account lifecycle protections including the ability to defend against account takeover and opening abuse, adversarial bot protection, protection against credential stuffing, inventory scalping, and hoarding, solutions designed to stop persistent scrapers from stealing content, API security, which discovers, audits, and monitors API, and microservice and application component protection that analyzes and protects application traffic that moves between application components, as well as cloud computing services, which include compute, storage, and cloud native and networking services; and Akamai App Platform, provides ready-to-run templates that address challenges in deploying, managing and scaling Kubernetes clusters at scale.
Additionally, it offers delivery solutions that include web and mobile performance solutions, which enables dynamic websites and applications Global traffic management, site acceleration, application load balancing, large-scale load testing, and real-user monitoring; and media delivery solutions
Including video streaming and video player services, game and software delivery, broadcast operations, authoritative domain name system, resolution, and data and analytics. Incorporated in 1998, Akamai Technologies is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.