- Recognizes authentic users based on detailed user profiles, including devices, networks, locations, and time of activity
- Detects anomalies from first account interaction based on the behavior profile of the entire user population
- Evaluates the reputation of the source based on past malicious activity observed across all Akamai customers
- Mitigates high-risk events in real time with advanced response actions at the edge
- Sophisticated bot detections catch and mitigate adversarial bots, even on the first interaction
- Real-time risk scoring
- Identifies risk across the entire account lifecycle journey
- Provides insights with fraud investigation and SIEM tools
- Tuning that’s unique to your organization
Prevent account abuse with advanced detections
Account Protector is a security solution designed to protect against account abuse across the lifecycle of an account, using machine learning and a rich dataset of risk and trust indicators to determine the legitimacy of a user request.
Trust is everything. Protect your customers from account abuse.
How Account Protector works
Features
Account Protection Use Cases
Learn how Akamai Account Protector assists with these specific needs.
Account opening abuse
Trust that a new account is being opened by a legitimate user and not by a fraudster using stolen or synthetic credentials, growing your digital business while reducing the cost and frustration of account abuse.
Account takeover
Protect customer accounts from being stolen and the painful aftermath of ATO by using Account Protector to recognize authentic users and mitigate fraudsters, ensuring trusted users have a great customer experience.
Sophisticated adversarial bot attacks
Secure user accounts from credential stuffing, inventory manipulation, and other automated attacks often launched in tandem with account opening abuse or ATO to steal valuable products, money, or other valuable assets.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Account Protector uses its global network effect to look at an entity’s accumulating history across all Akamai Account Protector customers to identify trust indicators and an accurate risk score for every user login, even if that user is visiting a particular site for the first time. The solution uses many attributes to create risk scores, including what is normal for the entire population of users for the business and what IPs are profiles that are obviously trying to do login abuse. Account Protector will provide value for your business even if your users are completely new or infrequent site visitors
Account Protector uses an adaptive model that will learn quickly that a user is a frequent traveler. Our risk model assesses the behavior of the entire user population. If travel is common in the entire user population (i.e., airline customers), the risk model will adapt accordingly. Because we look at so many attributes, traveling won’t automatically raise the risk score. Updating the browser won’t impact it either.
Account Protector provides visibility into user browsers, operating system, how many times they logged in and from where, and more, so you can make intelligent decisions.
Yes; using the Akamai SIEM Integration connector, you can pass user information to your SIEM for deeper insights into account abuse attacks.
Yes, Account Protector is GDPR compliant.
Account Protector includes all of Akamai Bot Manager’s capabilities. Its anti-bot technology uses AI and machine learning models and techniques to detect and mitigate bot traffic based on user behavior/telemetry analysis, browser fingerprinting, HTTP anomaly detection, automated browser detection, high request rates, and more. One of the decisions that can be made is that the risk score can go up because you’re identifying as a bot.
Akamai architects its products with the understanding that our customers cannot have any latency — their business depends on it. Account Protector, like all of Akamai’s products, is highly efficient, and the impact to your app/site performance should not be perceptible to users.
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