Akamai Technologies, Inc. (AKAM) recently announced notable additions to its flagship Akamai App & API (Application Programming Interface) Protector product. The cloud company, trusted to enhance online security, launched advanced protection against sophisticated application-layer distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.Layer 7 DDoS protections are enhanced to monitor and eliminate short DDoS attack bursts and apply client reputation scores for improved rate limiting. An additional URL Protection is al ...