MazeBolt Technologies Ltd. has released a native deployment of its RADAR validation platform for customers of Akamai Technologies Inc., giving enterprises that rely on Akamai for distributed denial-of-service protection a way to run continuous testing inside their own environments within hours and without taking services offline.
The release is aimed at configuration gaps that emerge as a company adds services, application programming interfaces and regions behind its DDoS protection. According to MazeBolt, Akamai setups are rarely tested independently against each of those changes, and a gap can remain hidden until an attack reaches a login page or a payment flow. Founder and Chief Executive Matthew Andriani said testing only a few times a year cannot keep pace now that artificial intelligence projects keep adding new services and APIs.
MazeBolt pointed to Akamai's own State of the Internet report, published in March, which found that Layer 7 DDoS attacks rose 104% over two years. Akamai attributed part of that growth to attack tools that use AI to make web applications and APIs easier to hit.
RADAR launches simulated attacks at Akamai-protected services from inside the customer's own environment. Its attack library covers known vectors as well as the AI-orchestrated and AI-generated attacks MazeBolt added with its VectorAI module in June. Based on MazeBolt's data from initial deployments, about 37% of attack vectors get past the protection already in place when RADAR first tests a production environment. Each run produces a report with remediation guidance written for the specific protection vendor, and RADAR repeats the test once a fix is in place. Eyal Rahimi, vice president of engineering at MazeBolt, said deployed protection is not proven protection and that customers also need to be able to prove which gaps they have closed.
Most financial institutions test far less often. In a MazeBolt survey of 300 security leaders at such organizations last year, 86% said they test their DDoS defenses once a year or less. Akamai reported in May that the median duration of Layers 3 and 4 DDoS attacks on the sector has risen 738% since 2024.
John Grady, chief analyst at Omdia, said misconfigurations and out-of-date rules remain the source of many security incidents, and that DDoS is no different. He said it is a critical area where security teams must ensure protection is current, because successful attacks impact availability and directly affect the bottom line.
Native Layer 7 support for Akamai environments is available today to all RADAR customers. Cloudflare Inc., F5 Inc. and Radware Ltd. are among the other mitigation vendors whose products RADAR already tests across scrubbing centers, on-premises equipment and cloud services.
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