We’re excited to share that Orca now integrates with Akamai, a global leader in content delivery, cloud services, and cybersecurity. This integration brings visibility from Akamai Edge DNS into the Orca Platform to extend our external exposure capabilities and protect the APIs and subdomains that are part of an organization’s cloud native application.
What is Akamai Edge DNS?
Akamai delivers a variety of solutions to power and protect businesses online. Akamai Edge DNS is a globally distributed, highly scalable Domain Name System (DNS) service built for security and performance.
Modern DNS distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are highly sophisticated and operate at massive scale. This makes it incredibly challenging to protect global businesses that depend on the 24/7/365 availability of their DNS infrastructure. Since DNS translates human-readable domains into machine-readable IP addresses, a DNS outage means your online presence goes offline – impacting websites, APIs, and applications.
Akamai Edge DNS ensures resilience and speed, defending against a wide range of DNS attacks across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
Know what Akamai subdomains directly impact your cloud native app in a unified view in Orca
Orca’s patented SideScanning technology agentlessly inventories the web and API catalog for your cloud native applications—integrating with Akamai enriches this data by pulling in Akamai-registered domains and subdomains into a single unified inventory of cloud assets across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud.
Security teams can drill into the details of an Akamai domain and its API hierarchy to quickly gauge its purpose, exposure, and risk.
Security teams can also explore the graph to understand the relationships between Akamai domains and assets with other cloud service providers. The Orca Platform connects the dots between external exposure, network connections, workloads, identities, and sensitive data at risk. For example, in the image following, Orca shows how an Amazon EC2 instance is linked to an IP address hosted in AWS, but that connects to many Akamai domains, revealing a quick glimpse at the potential impact if the EC2 instance was compromised.
Reduce external exposure with Akamai and Orca
The Orca Platform brings API Security, cloud workload protection, and application security under one umbrella since attacks on cloud native applications often span across multiple domains and attack vectors. With this integration, Orca’s external scanner now probes all domains and subdomains discovered from Akamai, and security teams can now see alerts directly related with Akamai web and API endpoints, reducing investigation time to address misconfigurations, subdomain takeovers, and domain expiration.
These alerts can be sent through existing workflow automation to the teams responsible for remediation, whether the team uses a SIEM to aggregate telemetry or ticketing workflows through Jira, ServiceNow, or other issue management systems.
About the Orca Cloud Security Platform
Orca offers a unified and comprehensive cloud security platform that identifies, prioritizes, and remediates security risks and compliance issues across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, and Kubernetes. The Orca Cloud Security Platform leverages Orca’s patented SideScanning™ technology to provide complete coverage and comprehensive risk detection.
Learn More
Interested in discovering the benefits of the Orca Platform and how it can be integrated with tools like Akamai? Schedule a personalized 1:1 demo, and we’ll show how you can use Orca to identify, prioritize, and remediate risks in your cloud environment. If you already use both Orca and Akamai, follow the steps in the documentation to set up the integration.
