WebDefend Global Event Manager

The WebDefend Global Event Manager (GEM), developed in collaboration with Akamai Technologies, Inc., is the first web application security management solution that defends against global application security threats by enabling customers to make distributed cloud and data center defense-in-depth architectures operational. The WebDefend Global Event Manager allows customers to simultaneously monitor events from Akamai WAF service in the cloud, WebDefend appliances, and ModSecurity sensors.

The WebDefend Global Event Manager enables Breach and Akamai work in concert across customers’ web environments in real-time to accurately detect and block attacks, prevent unauthorized data leakage, improve performance and identify and remediate web application coding errors.

Key Features

The distributed cloud and data center defense-in-depth solution provides enterprises and leading web properties with the following break-through capabilities:

Defense in Depth

Visualize and monitor the security, compliance, and health of their entire web application environment, from the Akamai Edge in the cloud to the origin in the customer data center.

Optimize Application Performance

Continuously optimize the balance between web application performance and security by implementing distributed detection and blocking of malicious traffic with maximum efficacy, minimizing attack-related consumption of communication and processing resources across the entire web application environment.

Automation

Automatically generate combined cloud and data center web application reporting for trending, audit and compliance purposes.

Detailed Event Reporting

Deliver integrated web application security events to security operations centers, security event and incident management solutions, governance, risk and compliance solutions, and managed security service providers.