{"id":3668,"date":"2026-10-04T20:58:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T20:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.castelis.com\/?page_id=3668"},"modified":"2026-10-04T20:58:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T20:58:52","slug":"akamai","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.castelis.com\/en\/technology-partners\/akamai\/","title":{"rendered":"Akamai"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"castelis-hero-banner\" >\n            <div class=\"hero-image-bg\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.castelis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Infra1-e1776014449893.webp\" alt=\"Akamai: secure and accelerate your critical applications\">\n        <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"container\">\n                <div class=\"breadcrumbs-wrapper-homepage\"><\/div>\n\n        <div class=\"hero-content-wrapper\">\n            <div class=\"hero-content\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"hero-title\">Akamai: secure and accelerate your critical applications<\/h1>\n                \n                                    <div class=\"hero-description\">\n                        <p>Web application firewall, API protection, anti-DDoS, content delivery and network segmentation on one of the most distributed platforms on the market. Castelis integrates it, tunes the security policies and runs it.<\/p>\n\n                    <\/div>\n                \n                                    <div class=\"hero-cta-buttons\">\n                        <a href=\"#contact\" class=\"btn btn-primary\">\n                            <i class=\"fas fa-chevron-right\"><\/i>\n                            <span> Talk to an expert <\/span>\n                        <\/a>\n\n                                            <\/div>\n                \n                            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n\n        \n                    <div class=\"hero-bottom-section\">\n                <div class=\"hero-bottom\">\n                                                                                                <div class=\"hero-bottom-info\">\n                                <div class=\"info-content\">\n                                                                            <h3 class=\"info-title\">Application and API security<\/h3>\n                                                                                                                <div class=\"info-description\">\n                                            <span>WAF, bot management, anti-DDoS and an inventory of exposed APIs on a single platform.<\/span>\n                                        <\/div>\n                                                                    <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                                                                                        <div class=\"hero-bottom-info\">\n                                <div class=\"info-content\">\n                                                                            <h3 class=\"info-title\">Present in more than 700 cities<\/h3>\n                                                                                                                <div class=\"info-description\">\n                                            <span>Your security rules and your cache apply as close as possible to your users.<\/span>\n                                        <\/div>\n                                                                    <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                                                                                        <div class=\"hero-bottom-info\">\n                                <div class=\"info-content\">\n                                                                            <h3 class=\"info-title\">Integration and operations<\/h3>\n                                                                                                                <div class=\"info-description\">\n                                            <span>Rules tuned to avoid false positives, then monitoring and incident response up to 24\/7.<\/span>\n                                        <\/div>\n                                                    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class=\"content-title\">\n                    <span class=\"slash-prefix\">\/<\/span>\n                    <div>What is Akamai?<\/div>\n                <\/h2>\n                        \n                            <div class=\"castelis-content-text\">\n                    <p>Akamai is an internet infrastructure provider founded in 1998 and listed on the Nasdaq. Its business covers three areas: application security, content delivery and cloud computing.<\/p>\n<p>The company runs one of the most distributed platforms on the market. That is its main technical advantage: security rules and caching apply a few dozen kilometres from the user rather than in a distant data centre.<\/p>\n<p>Akamai makes sense wherever downtime is expensive:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Banking, insurance and financial services<\/li>\n<li>Retail with strong seasonal peaks<\/li>\n<li>Media and video platforms<\/li>\n<li>Healthcare and public services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n                <\/div>\n                        \n                            <div class=\"castelis-cta-wrapper\">\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.castelis.com\/en\/cybersecurity\/technical-security-audit\/\" class=\"btn btn-secondary\">\n                                                    See our technical security expertise\n                                                                        <\/a>\n                <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n        \n        \n        <div class=\"order-2 image-style-framed \">\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" \n                    src=\"https:\/\/www.castelis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/christina-wocintechchat-com-m-6Dv3pe-JnSg-unsplash.webp\" \n                    alt=\"What is Akamai?\"\n                \/>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"castelis-cards-panel alignment-vertical bg-green heading-left\"  id=\"plateforme\" >\n    <div class=\"container\">\n                    <div class=\"cards-panel-header\">\n                                    <div class=\"cards-panel-heading\">\n                        <span class=\"slash-prefix\">\/<\/span>\n                        <h2>The Akamai products we implement<\/h2>\n                    <\/div>\n                                \n                                    <div class=\"cards-panel-description\">\n                        <p>The catalogue is broad. These are the building blocks we deploy most often, on their own or combined, depending on your actual exposure.<\/p>\n\n                    <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                \n                    <div class=\"cards-grid cards-grid-3\">\n                                    <div class=\"card-item\">\n                                                    \n                            <div class=\"card-icon\">\n                                                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.castelis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Icon-3.svg\" alt=\"App &amp; API Protector\" \/>\n                                                            <\/div>\n                            \n                                                            <h3 class=\"card-title\">App &amp; API Protector<\/h3>\n                                                        \n                                                            <p class=\"card-description\">Web application firewall, anti-DDoS, bot management and API security in a single service.<\/p>\n                                                        \n                                                        \n                                                                        <\/div>\n                                    <div class=\"card-item\">\n                                                    \n                            <div class=\"card-icon\">\n                                                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.castelis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Icon-3.svg\" alt=\"API Security\" \/>\n                                                            <\/div>\n                            \n                                                            <h3 class=\"card-title\">API Security<\/h3>\n                                                        \n                                                            <p class=\"card-description\">Discovery of exposed APIs, including undocumented ones, vulnerability detection and risk scoring.<\/p>\n                                                        \n                                                        \n                                                                        <\/div>\n                                    <div class=\"card-item\">\n                                                    \n                            <div class=\"card-icon\">\n                                                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.castelis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Icon-3.svg\" alt=\"Prolexic\" \/>\n                                                            <\/div>\n                            \n                                                            <h3 class=\"card-title\">Prolexic<\/h3>\n                                                        \n                                                            <p class=\"card-description\">Network-level anti-DDoS, for IP ranges and services that do not sit behind an HTTP proxy.<\/p>\n                                                        \n                                                        \n                                                                        <\/div>\n                                    <div class=\"card-item\">\n                                                    \n                            <div class=\"card-icon\">\n                                                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.castelis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Icon-3.svg\" alt=\"Akamai Guardicore Segmentation\" \/>\n                                                            <\/div>\n                            \n                                                            <h3 class=\"card-title\">Akamai Guardicore Segmentation<\/h3>\n                                                        \n                                                            <p class=\"card-description\">Mapping of flows between your servers, then internal segmentation against lateral movement.<\/p>\n                                                        \n                                                        \n                                                                        <\/div>\n                                    <div class=\"card-item\">\n                                                    \n                            <div class=\"card-icon\">\n                                                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.castelis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Icon-3.svg\" alt=\"Ion and Adaptive Media Delivery\" \/>\n                                                            <\/div>\n                            \n                                                            <h3 class=\"card-title\">Ion and Adaptive Media Delivery<\/h3>\n                                                        \n                                                            <p class=\"card-description\">Acceleration of websites and web applications, and adaptive video delivery at high volume.<\/p>\n                                                        \n                                                        \n                                                                        <\/div>\n                                    <div class=\"card-item\">\n                                                    \n                            <div class=\"card-icon\">\n                                                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.castelis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Icon-3.svg\" alt=\"Edge DNS and Global Traffic Management\" \/>\n                                                            <\/div>\n                            \n                                                            <h3 class=\"card-title\">Edge DNS and Global Traffic Management<\/h3>\n                                                        \n                                                            <p class=\"card-description\">Attack-resistant DNS and traffic distribution across data centres, with automatic failover.<\/p>\n                                                        \n                                                        \n                                                                        <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"castelis-key-numbers\" >\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <div class=\"key-numbers-grid\">\n                            <div class=\"key-number-item\">\n                    <div class=\"key-number-value\">1998<\/div>\n                    <h3 class=\"key-number-label\">Akamai founded, listed on the Nasdaq under the ticker AKAM.<\/h3>\n                                    <\/div>\n                                    <div class=\"key-number-separator\">\/<\/div>\n                                            <div class=\"key-number-item\">\n                    <div class=\"key-number-value\">700<\/div>\n                    <h3 class=\"key-number-label\">Cities covered by the platform, according to figures published by the provider.<\/h3>\n                                    <\/div>\n                                    <div class=\"key-number-separator\">\/<\/div>\n                                            <div class=\"key-number-item\">\n                    <div class=\"key-number-value\">4.21<\/div>\n                    <h3 class=\"key-number-label\">Billion dollars in revenue in 2025, for more than 11,500 people worldwide.<\/h3>\n                                    <\/div>\n                                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"castelis-content-image frame-grey\"  id=\"pourquoi\" >\n    <div class=\"container align-items-center\"> \n        \n        <div class=\"order-2 content-wrapper \">\n            \n                            <h2 class=\"content-title\">\n                    <span class=\"slash-prefix\">\/<\/span>\n                    <div>When Akamai is the right choice<\/div>\n                <\/h2>\n                        \n                            <div class=\"castelis-content-text\">\n                    <p>Akamai is not a CDN you switch on to speed up a corporate website. It is a security platform you choose when the stakes go beyond performance. Four situations justify it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You expose a large number of APIs and you do not know exactly which ones, nor what they let through<\/li>\n<li>You face regular application attacks, credential theft or content scraping, and IP filtering is no longer enough<\/li>\n<li>You need to segment a large internal network to limit the spread of ransomware<\/li>\n<li>A few minutes of downtime translate directly into lost revenue<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The trade-off is a more demanding contractual model and a more technical rollout: too permissive, the rules do not protect; too strict, they block your own customers. That is the work we take on.<\/p>\n<p>For delivery and performance needs with usage-based pricing and European routing, bunny.net is better sized.<\/p>\n\n                <\/div>\n                        \n                            <div class=\"castelis-cta-wrapper\">\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.castelis.com\/en\/technology-partners\/bunny-net\/\" class=\"btn btn-secondary\">\n                                                    Compare with bunny.net\n                                                                        <\/a>\n                <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n        \n        \n        <div class=\"order-1 image-style-framed \">\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" \n                    src=\"https:\/\/www.castelis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/fotis-fotopoulos-DuHKoV44prg-unsplash-1.webp\" \n                    alt=\"When Akamai is the right choice\"\n                \/>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"castelis-methodology-timeline\"  id=\"demarche\" >\n    <div class=\"container\">\n                    <h2 class=\"methodology-heading\">\n                <span class=\"slash-prefix\">\/<\/span>\n                How we integrate Akamai for you\n            <\/h2>\n        \n        <div class=\"methodology-content\">\n            \n            <div class=\"methodology-left \">   \n                                    <div class=\"methodology-subheading\">\n                        <p>Four steps. The challenge is not switching the platform on, it is tuning the rules: we never move to blocking without first measuring what would be blocked.<\/p>\n\n                    <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"timeline-wrapper\">\n                        <div class=\"timeline-line\"><\/div>\n                        \n                                                    <div class=\"timeline-step\">\n                                <div class=\"timeline-step-number\">\n                                    <span>1<\/span>\n                                <\/div>\n                                \n                                <div class=\"timeline-step-content\">\n                                                                            <h3 class=\"timeline-step-title\">Mapping and scoping<\/h3>\n                                                                        \n                                                                            <p class=\"timeline-step-description\">Inventory of the domains, APIs and flows to protect, analysis of legitimate traffic and past attacks, definition of the perimeter.<\/p>\n                                                                        \n                                                                            <div class=\"timeline-step-tags\">\n                                                                                            <span class=\"timeline-tag\">Audit<\/span>\n                                                                                            <span class=\"timeline-tag\">Scoping<\/span>\n                                                                                    <\/div>\n                                                                    <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"timeline-step\">\n                                <div class=\"timeline-step-number\">\n                                    <span>2<\/span>\n                                <\/div>\n                                \n                                <div class=\"timeline-step-content\">\n                                                                            <h3 class=\"timeline-step-title\">Deployment in monitoring mode<\/h3>\n                                                                        \n                                                                            <p class=\"timeline-step-description\">Security policies in logging-only mode, to measure what would be blocked before blocking anything.<\/p>\n                                                                        \n                                                                            <div class=\"timeline-step-tags\">\n                                                                                            <span class=\"timeline-tag\">Deployment<\/span>\n                                                                                            <span class=\"timeline-tag\">Observation<\/span>\n                                                                                    <\/div>\n                                                                    <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"timeline-step\">\n                                <div class=\"timeline-step-number\">\n                                    <span>3<\/span>\n                                <\/div>\n                                \n                                <div class=\"timeline-step-content\">\n                                                                            <h3 class=\"timeline-step-title\">Tuning and switch to blocking<\/h3>\n                                                                        \n                                                                            <p class=\"timeline-step-description\">False positives removed rule by rule, then blocking enabled gradually, domain by domain and API by API.<\/p>\n                                                                        \n                                                                            <div class=\"timeline-step-tags\">\n                                                                                            <span class=\"timeline-tag\">Tuning<\/span>\n                                                                                            <span class=\"timeline-tag\">Go-live<\/span>\n                                                                                    <\/div>\n                                                                    <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"timeline-step\">\n                                <div class=\"timeline-step-number\">\n                                    <span>4<\/span>\n                                <\/div>\n                                \n                                <div class=\"timeline-step-content\">\n                                                                            <h3 class=\"timeline-step-title\">Operations and incident response<\/h3>\n                                                                        \n                                                                            <p class=\"timeline-step-description\">Alerts watched, attacks analysed, rules adjusted continuously and incidents handled, up to 24\/7 on-call.<\/p>\n                                                                        \n                                                                            <div class=\"timeline-step-tags\">\n                                                                                            <span class=\"timeline-tag\">Monitoring<\/span>\n                                                                                            <span class=\"timeline-tag\">24\/7<\/span>\n                                                                                    <\/div>\n                                                                    <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                            <\/div>\n                \n                            <\/div>\n\n            \n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"castelis-content-image frame-black\"  id=\"castelis\" >\n    <div class=\"container align-items-center\"> \n        \n        <div class=\"order-2 content-wrapper \">\n            \n                            <h2 class=\"content-title\">\n                    <span class=\"slash-prefix\">\/<\/span>\n                    <div>What Castelis takes care of on Akamai<\/div>\n                <\/h2>\n                        \n                            <div class=\"castelis-content-text\">\n                    <p>Our teams design the security policies, deploy them and keep them alive. It is continuous work: a frozen rule degrades as your applications evolve.<\/p>\n<ul class='check-list'>\n<li>Writing the web application firewall policies<\/li>\n<li>Bot tuning, to tell an indexing crawler from a scraping tool<\/li>\n<li>API inventory and remediation of detected exposures<\/li>\n<li>Network segmentation configuration<\/li>\n<li>Akamai logs connected to our SOC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A security tool whose alerts nobody acts on does not protect anything. So we integrate Akamai into a detection and response chain rather than as an isolated component.<\/p>\n<p>More than 25 years of experience, more than 500 projects delivered and more than 80 people at Castelis, part of hunik group and its 7 specialist companies. Castelis is ISO 27001:2022 certified.<\/p>\n\n                <\/div>\n                        \n                            <div class=\"castelis-cta-wrapper\">\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.castelis.com\/en\/cybersecurity\/managed-soc\/\" class=\"btn btn-secondary\">\n                                                    Discover our managed SOC\n                                                                        <\/a>\n                <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n        \n        \n        <div class=\"order-1 image-style-framed \">\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" \n                    src=\"https:\/\/www.castelis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/christina-wocintechchat-com-m-6Dv3pe-JnSg-unsplash.webp\" \n                    alt=\"What Castelis takes care of on Akamai\"\n                \/>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"castelis-tech-stack\"  id=\"tech-stack\" >\n    <div class=\"container\">\n                    <h2 class=\"tech-stack-heading\">\n                <span class=\"slash-prefix\">\/<\/span>\n                Related technologies\n            <\/h2>\n        \n                    <div class=\"tech-stack-description\">\n                <p>Akamai fits into a wider detection and response chain, which we assemble according to your architecture and your compliance obligations.<\/p>\n\n            <\/div>\n        \n                    <div class=\"tech-stack-tools\">\n                                                            <span class=\"tech-tool\">Akamai<\/span>\n                                                                                <span class=\"tech-tool\">Microsoft Sentinel<\/span>\n                                                                                <span class=\"tech-tool\">Splunk<\/span>\n                                                                                <span class=\"tech-tool\">QRadar<\/span>\n                                                                                <span class=\"tech-tool\">CrowdStrike<\/span>\n                                                                                <span class=\"tech-tool\">MISP<\/span>\n                                                                                <span class=\"tech-tool\">Kibana<\/span>\n                                                                                <span class=\"tech-tool\">bunny.net<\/span>\n                                                <\/div>\n        \n                    <div class=\"tech-stack-info\">\n                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.castelis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Icon-6.svg\" alt=\"Icon\" class=\"info-icon\">\n                                <span class=\"info-text\">Stack adapted to your architecture and your compliance obligations.<\/span>\n            <\/div>\n        \n            <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"castelis-faq\"  id=\"faq\" >\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <h2 class=\"faq-title\">\n            <span class=\"slash-prefix\">\/<\/span>\n            <div>Frequently asked questions<\/div>\n        <\/h2>\n    <\/div>\n        \n            <div class=\"faq-accordion\">\n                                            \n                <div class=\"faq-item active\">\n                    <div class=\"container\">\n                        <button \n                            class=\"faq-question\" \n                            type=\"button\"\n                            aria-expanded=\"true\"\n                            aria-controls=\"faq-faq-0\"\n                            onclick=\"this.closest('.faq-item').classList.toggle('active'); this.setAttribute('aria-expanded', this.getAttribute('aria-expanded') === 'true' ? 'false' : 'true');\"\n                        >\n                            <h3>What is Akamai?<\/h3>\n                            <i class=\"faq-icon\"><\/i>\n                        <\/button>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <div \n                        class=\"faq-answer\" \n                        id=\"faq-faq-0\"\n                        role=\"region\"\n                    >\n                        <div class=\"container\">\n                            <div class=\"faq-answer-content\">\n                                <p>Akamai is an internet infrastructure provider founded in 1998. Its platform, present in more than 700 cities, covers application security (firewall, anti-DDoS, API protection, network segmentation), content and video delivery, and cloud computing. Security rules and caching apply as close as possible to the user rather than on your origin server.<\/p>\n\n                            <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                                            \n                <div class=\"faq-item \">\n                    <div class=\"container\">\n                        <button \n                            class=\"faq-question\" \n                            type=\"button\"\n                            aria-expanded=\"false\"\n                            aria-controls=\"faq-faq-1\"\n                            onclick=\"this.closest('.faq-item').classList.toggle('active'); this.setAttribute('aria-expanded', this.getAttribute('aria-expanded') === 'true' ? 'false' : 'true');\"\n                        >\n                            <h3>What is the difference between Akamai and a standard CDN?<\/h3>\n                            <i class=\"faq-icon\"><\/i>\n                        <\/button>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <div \n                        class=\"faq-answer\" \n                        id=\"faq-faq-1\"\n                        role=\"region\"\n                    >\n                        <div class=\"container\">\n                            <div class=\"faq-answer-content\">\n                                <p>A CDN caches your content to serve it faster. Akamai does that, but its core value lies elsewhere: web application firewall, API inventory and protection, fine-grained bot management, network-level anti-DDoS and internal network segmentation. You choose Akamai for the security of an application estate, not only for the speed of a website.<\/p>\n\n                            <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                                            \n                <div class=\"faq-item \">\n                    <div class=\"container\">\n                        <button \n                            class=\"faq-question\" \n                            type=\"button\"\n                            aria-expanded=\"false\"\n                            aria-controls=\"faq-faq-2\"\n                            onclick=\"this.closest('.faq-item').classList.toggle('active'); this.setAttribute('aria-expanded', this.getAttribute('aria-expanded') === 'true' ? 'false' : 'true');\"\n                        >\n                            <h3>Akamai or bunny.net: how to choose?<\/h3>\n                            <i class=\"faq-icon\"><\/i>\n                        <\/button>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <div \n                        class=\"faq-answer\" \n                        id=\"faq-faq-2\"\n                        role=\"region\"\n                    >\n                        <div class=\"container\">\n                            <div class=\"faq-answer-content\">\n                                <p>If you need to accelerate websites and web applications with usage-based pricing and the option of staying in Europe, bunny.net is the better answer and goes live within hours. If you need to protect a large number of APIs, counter repeated application attacks or segment a large internal network, Akamai is the right tool. We deploy both and we tell you which one matches your situation.<\/p>\n\n                            <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                                            \n                <div class=\"faq-item \">\n                    <div class=\"container\">\n                        <button \n                            class=\"faq-question\" \n                            type=\"button\"\n                            aria-expanded=\"false\"\n                            aria-controls=\"faq-faq-3\"\n                            onclick=\"this.closest('.faq-item').classList.toggle('active'); this.setAttribute('aria-expanded', this.getAttribute('aria-expanded') === 'true' ? 'false' : 'true');\"\n                        >\n                            <h3>How long does an Akamai rollout take?<\/h3>\n                            <i class=\"faq-icon\"><\/i>\n                        <\/button>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <div \n                        class=\"faq-answer\" \n                        id=\"faq-faq-3\"\n                        role=\"region\"\n                    >\n                        <div class=\"container\">\n                            <div class=\"faq-answer-content\">\n                                <p>It depends on the number of domains and APIs to protect and on how complex your traffic is. Switching the platform on is quick; what takes time is the observation phase and tuning the rules to remove false positives before moving to blocking. The initial scoping gives you a firm schedule before any commitment.<\/p>\n\n                            <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                                            \n                <div class=\"faq-item \">\n                    <div class=\"container\">\n                        <button \n                            class=\"faq-question\" \n                            type=\"button\"\n                            aria-expanded=\"false\"\n                            aria-controls=\"faq-faq-4\"\n                            onclick=\"this.closest('.faq-item').classList.toggle('active'); this.setAttribute('aria-expanded', this.getAttribute('aria-expanded') === 'true' ? 'false' : 'true');\"\n                        >\n                            <h3>Does Akamai replace a SOC?<\/h3>\n                            <i class=\"faq-icon\"><\/i>\n                        <\/button>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <div \n                        class=\"faq-answer\" \n                        id=\"faq-faq-4\"\n                        role=\"region\"\n                    >\n                        <div class=\"container\">\n                            <div class=\"faq-answer-content\">\n                                <p>No. Akamai detects and blocks at application and network level, and produces a large volume of logs and alerts. Someone still has to analyse them, qualify the attacks and adjust the rules. We connect Akamai logs to our managed SOC so that detection leads to an actual response.<\/p>\n\n                            <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                                            \n                <div class=\"faq-item \">\n                    <div class=\"container\">\n                        <button \n                            class=\"faq-question\" \n                            type=\"button\"\n                            aria-expanded=\"false\"\n                            aria-controls=\"faq-faq-5\"\n                            onclick=\"this.closest('.faq-item').classList.toggle('active'); this.setAttribute('aria-expanded', this.getAttribute('aria-expanded') === 'true' ? 'false' : 'true');\"\n                        >\n                            <h3>Do we need to be an Akamai customer already to work with you?<\/h3>\n                            <i class=\"faq-icon\"><\/i>\n                        <\/button>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <div \n                        class=\"faq-answer\" \n                        id=\"faq-faq-5\"\n                        role=\"region\"\n                    >\n                        <div class=\"container\">\n                            <div class=\"faq-answer-content\">\n                                <p>No. We work on an existing Akamai environment that is badly tuned or underused, as well as on a full rollout. In both cases we start by mapping your actual exposure before recommending any tooling.<\/p>\n\n                            <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"castelis-contact-form\"  id=\"contact\" >\n    <div class=\"container\">   \n                    <div class=\"contact-tag hashtag-title\">CONTACT<\/div>\n        \n                    <h2 class=\"contact-heading\">Let&#039;s talk about securing your applications<\/h2>\n        \n        \n        <div class=\"contact-wrapper\">\n            \n            <div class=\"contact-form-side\">\n                                    <div class=\"contact-form-container\">\n                        \n\t\t\t\t\t\t<script>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\twindow.hsFormsOnReady = window.hsFormsOnReady || [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\twindow.hsFormsOnReady.push(()=>{\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\thbspt.forms.create({\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tportalId: 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