Executive summary \r\n Akamai has entered into a strategic partnership with Corero, a leading specialist in on-premises distributed denial-of-service ( DDoS ) solutions, to extend the Prolexic DDoS protection platform. Customers can now utilize Prolexic On-Prem (powered by Corero ) and Prolexic Hybrid — in addition to Prolexic’s cloud-based DDoS solutions — to protect their network infrastructure and internet-facing assets from motivated DDoS attacks. \r\n This blog post outlines the evolving industry trends and presents some use cases in which customers can benefit from comprehensive new solutions from Akamai. \r\n An era of horizontal, multi-vector, and sophisticated DDoS attacks \r\n Since 2020, there has been a significant evolution in how cybercriminals and motivated hacktivists utilize DDoS attacks as an easy, relatively inexpensive, and highly effective method of targeting vulnerable organizations and internet assets.…