Case Study: Perform Group achieves faster threat detection and containment with Akamai Technologies' Enterprise Threat Protector

Akamai provides faster identification, isolation, and resolution of threats for Perform Media

Perform Group, a digital sports media company, faced persistent security gaps: endpoint anti-virus and network tools weren’t consistently installed or up to date, allowing some malware, ransomware, and phishing threats to slip through and spread between devices. The resulting clean-up consumed significant security and user productivity time, and the CISO, Daniel Schatz, needed a way to quickly identify, isolate, and remove infections without relying on perfect end-user behavior.

Perform deployed Akamai’s Enterprise Threat Protector to monitor and block malicious DNS requests, a change that took only a few hours to implement. The solution delivered immediate visibility via an intuitive dashboard, near-real-time threat intelligence with fewer false positives, and the ability to block threats across the network in minutes—reducing incident response time, lowering dependency on endpoint hygiene, uncovering previously unknown crypto-mining traffic, and freeing the security team for higher-value work.

Perform Group

Daniel Schatz

CISO