Akamai Opens New Data Center in Japan to Counter Increasing Size of DDoS Attacks

December 16, 2014 - Akamai Opens New Data Center in Japan to Counter Increasing Size of DDoS Attacks

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. December 16, 2014 Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading provider of cloud services for delivering, optimizing and securing online content and business applications, today announced that it has opened a new data center in Japan as part of an on-going expansion of its global network.

When a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a client website is detected, all incoming site traffic is rerouted to one or more of Akamais global data centers. Malicious traffic is scrubbed before the remaining clean traffic is routed back to the clients network. Using this cloud-based approach, Akamai DDoS technicians can mitigate DDoS attacks and bring a clients website back online without significant business disruption.

This new state-of-the-art data center improves network performance for our clients in Japan while significantly increasing network capacity in the Asia Pacific region, said John Summers, vice president, Security Business Unit, Akamai Technologies. Locating another scrubbing center in Japan also enables more clients to access Akamais global DDoS mitigation network.

Operating high capacity, regional DDoS scrubbing centers that are located close to where DDoS attacks originate is a cornerstone of Akamais DDoS fighting strategy. Over the last 18 months, there has been an increase in DDoS attacks originating from the Asia Pacific region and this trend continued in Q3 2014, as noted in Akamais State of the Internet Report: Security, which was published on October 23, 2014.

The report noted that Q3 was another record-setting quarter for DDoS attacks and showed an 80 percent increase in average peak bandwidth compared to Q2 2014 and a 389 percent increase from the same period a year ago (Q3 2013). One factor that has contributed to this increase was a 321 Gigabits per second (Gbps) attack and 16 other attacks that each peaked above 100 Gbps.

The U.S. was the main source of DDoS attacks in Q3, accounting for 24 percent of all attacks. Countries with emerging and expanding infrastructures were next, including China with 20 percent, Brazil with 18 percent and Mexico with 14 percent. Korea came in fifth with 6 percent, followed by Germany with 6 percent, and Japan with 4 percent. Together, Brazil, Russia, India and China accounted for 43 percent of DDoS traffic. Countries located in Asia accounted for more than a third of the global DDoS attack traffic with 36 percent, which can be attributed to a surge in DDoS-related malware. A complimentary copy of the report can be downloaded from www.stateoftheinternet.com/security-report.

With the size of DDoS attacks continuing to grow, Akamai is continuing to add network capacity, said Summers. The new Japan data center opened in early October, is fully operational and has already mitigated DDoS attack traffic.

Akamai will continue to expand its network capacity by bringing two new regional data centers online in 2015, one in Asia Pacific (Japan) and one in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

About Akamai

Akamai is the leading provider of cloud services for delivering, optimising and securing online content and business applications. At the core of the Companys solutions is the Akamai Intelligent Platform , providing extensive reach, coupled with unmatched reliability, security, visibility and expertise. Akamai removes the complexities of connecting the increasingly mobile world, supporting 24/7 consumer demand, and enabling enterprises to securely leverage the cloud. To learn more about how Akamai is accelerating the pace of innovation in a hyperconnected world, please visit www.akamai.com or blogs.akamai.com, and follow @Akamai on Twitter.

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