Blog Security Akamai Prolexic Now Comes With a Network Cloud Firewall Sven H. Dummer is a Global Director of Product Marketing at Akamai. Sven is based in San Francisco. Today, we are announcing a major extension of Akamai Prolexic , our distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection technology that has maintained its position as the industry’s leading and most-recognized solution for more than a decade. Prolexic now includes a fully user-configurable Network Cloud Firewall. \r\n This is pretty exciting news for two reasons. First, this feature has been the most requested by our Prolexic users. Custom, self-service access control lists (ACLs) and firewall rules are extremely helpful for many aspects of DDoS defense — and that's what Prolexic is all about. Prolexic already had these capabilities and, in fact, more than 75% of today’s attacks are at least partially blocked by ACL mitigation posture when these rules were configured by our Akamai experts in collaboration with our customers.…