Security News > 2020 > March > Akamai adds secure web gateway capabilities to threat service
Cybersecurity company Akamai has responded to consumer demand and announced on Tuesday that it was adding new tools to its Enterprise Threat Protector service that allowed customers to send all web traffic to a proxy.
Jim Black, product marketing manager for Akamai, explained in a blog post that the new secure web gateway capability would add a new level of security and visibility to the company's security offering while providing something that has historically been difficult to do.
Akamai has more than 250,000 servers in 1,500 networks and 150 countries, giving the company the ability to provide the kind of services needed to keep a cloud secure web gateway running well.
"These enhancements build on the Enterprise Threat Protector product capabilities that we have brought to market over the past three years. Enterprise Threat Protector, alongside our Zero Trust Network Access solution Enterprise Application Access, has already helped hundreds of enterprises start that Zero Trust transformation journey," Black wrote.
In addition to new secure web gateway capabilities, Black noted that Akamai added a cloud proxy to its services last year which gave customers more tools to examine URL traffic and investigate potentially malicious payloads.