Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) today announced new AI-powered capabilities for Akamai Guardicore Segmentation designed to transform how organisations design and enforce security policies. The solution leverages AI to identify, analyse, and interpret application behaviour, then automatically generates accurate, enforcement-ready policies. Organisations can now dramatically speed up segmentation efforts, implement stronger controls with confidence, and remain resilient against rapidly evolving, AI-powered threats.
Modern business environments no longer stand still. Workloads evolve rapidly, and attackers exploit lateral movement faster than security teams can react. Unlike legacy microsegmentation tools that leave customers guessing and afraid to enforce controls, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation’s new features enable ongoing discovery, customer-specific intelligence, proof-driven enforcement, and continuous assurance, so organisations can safely reduce attack surface and sustain measurable risk reduction at scale.
New enhancements include:
- Continuous discovery: Allows for real-time understanding, faster time to visibility, and stronger foundations for Zero Trust.
- AI that understands applications: Automatically discovers application behaviour, generates and explains segmentation policies at scale, simulates impact, and validates readiness before enforcement — reducing manual effort and operational risk.
- Proof-driven enforcement: Greatly reduces the attack surface and increases the ability to scale Zero Trust without adding head count.
- Continuous risk containment: Deep analysis correlates exposure-aware detection with segmentation enforcement, enabling organisations to reduce blast radius by feeding AI-generated insights directly into policy actions.
- Delegated, application-owner workflows: Engages application owners directly through the App Owner Portal to accelerate approvals, reduce friction, and operationalise Zero Trust at enterprise scale.
“We analysed more than 500 segmentation projects to pinpoint common bottlenecks and identify what drives success across technology, processes, and human behaviour,” said Ofer Wolf, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Enterprise Security with Akamai. “Those insights guided the development of these enhancements to Akamai Guardicore Segmentation that apply AI-powered segmentation throughout the entire risk containment lifecycle — from continuous discovery and intelligent insight to runtime assurance, exposure analysis, and rapid response.”
Ofer Wolf, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Enterprise Security with Akamai
Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is tailored to organisations operating hybrid IT, cloud, Kubernetes, and AI workloads that must reduce lateral movement risk, ransomware, and impact while also meeting increasing audit, compliance, and data sovereignty requirements.
