Fast DNS is General Availability

Fast DNS is a cloud-based authoritative DNS solution that augments or replaces a customer’s existing DNS infrastructure. Fast DNS improves DNS resolution times, especially for websites on an Akamai delivery product, and has the scale to absorb the largest DDoS attacks targeting the DNS infrastructure. Additional unique capabilities include:

• Tenant distribution. No two Fast DNS customers share the same NS delegation set. This protects all customers when one customer experiences a massive DNS DDoS attack against the shared infrastructure.

• Roles and permissions. Provides configuration access controls to limit who can view and edit configurations.

• Total Solution. Provides exceptional functional capabilities, such as automatic IP throttling, IPv6 support, log delivery, reporting, primary and secondary DNS, SLAs, vanity name servers, alias zones, Zone Apex Mapping, and RESTFul API and optional DNSSEC support.

Previously, to protect an endpoint, an API definition had to be created manually on the API Definitions page. Now, this is possible in the Bot Manager user interface via a new wizard available in the “Bot Detection Methods (Behavioral)” area.

Previously, the “Allow” action’s description read “Log request, halt further evaluation, and bypass Network Layer, Rate Controls and Reputation.” This was inaccurate, as only rate controls and client reputation are bypassed. The description has been updated.

To alleviate confusion, the “Disable” action for all bot categories has been renamed “Skip,” the selection of which causes client requests to skip the category and move to the next evaluation. Any current security configurations with categories using “Disable” will automatically be changed to the “Skip” action.

The User Agent dimension displays the top user agents used by bots that have triggered Bot Manager detection.

This enhancement allows you to create filters on the URL dimension that match a “starts with” condition. This is helpful if you would like to filter the contents of pages that begin with the match condition (e.g., “www.example.com/prod”) or of an entire subdirectory (e.g., “www.example.com/product/”).

These notifications appear on the Security Configuration management and Bot Manager pages.

This consists of checkboxes and menus, allowing for selection of multiple entries and application of a menu option:

• Add selected entries to the filter

• Exclude selected entries from the results

• Add items to a network list (If appropriate, KSD customers only)

Changes have been made to the Security Configurations page.

• Pagination is now implemented; 10 security configurations are displayed per page, and pagination controls are available at page bottom.

• Inactive security configurations can now be hidden from view using an “Inactive configurations (#): Shown/Hidden” toggle added at the top, right-hand corner of the page. The “Shown” position displays all configurations; the “Hidden” position hides configurations not act- ive on either the Edge Staging or Production networks.

• By default, the page is now sorted by the security configuration name column in ascending order.