Akamai Prolexic

Akamai Prolexic is a cloud-based distributed denial-of-service mitigation platform engineered to protect enterprise data centers, internet-facing subnets, and hybrid network infrastructures against the largest, most sophisticated volumetric DDoS attacks. Powered by over 36 Terabits per second of dedicated scrubbing capacity distributed across dedicated global scrubbing centers, Prolexic reroutes enterprise border gateway protocol (BGP) traffic away from targeted facilities to absorb, inspect, and filter out malicious traffic before it exhausts enterprise transit links.

The service provides automated, proactive mitigation powered by Akamai 24/7 global Security Operations Center (SOC) engineers, guaranteeing zero-second mitigation SLAs against known attack vectors. Key technical capabilities include Anycast-based routing, automated Layer 3 and Layer 4 packet scrubbing, state-exhaustion SYN flood mitigation, UDP amplification neutralization, GRE and IPsec tunnel connectivity, and real-time network traffic telemetry through the Akamai Control Center. By neutralizing volumetric floods in the cloud, Prolexic safeguards business continuity and prevents costly network outages.

Akamai Prolexic integrates natively with enterprise edge routers (Cisco, Juniper, Arista), BGP routing protocols, flow monitoring systems (NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX), and enterprise SIEM platforms. Core enterprise use cases include defending financial clearinghouses and trading networks against ransom DDoS attacks, maintaining uptime for critical online gaming platforms, protecting public sector infrastructure, and securing corporate VPN gateways from bandwidth starvation. Prolexic delivers carrier-grade DDoS resilience backed by industry-leading SLAs.