Akamai Named a Microsegmentation Leader
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Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) announced it has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Microsegmentation Solutions, Q3 2026, which evaluated 10 vendors across 25 criteria. According to Akamai, it received the highest possible scores in areas including asset discovery, visualization, policy administration, cloud enforcement, Zero Trust integration, threat detection, innovation, and supporting services.
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Historical Context
| Date | Event | Sentiment | 24h Move | Catalyst |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 06 | Q2 earnings report | Negative | -6.8% | Profitability and diluted EPS declined despite revenue and security growth. |
| Aug 06 | Leveraged ETF launch | Neutral | -3.0% | REX Shares launched a 2X leveraged AKAM single-stock ETF. |
| Aug 05 | Security product launch | Positive | -0.9% | Akamai launched Workforce Protector for enterprise interaction security. |
| Aug 05 | AI risk report | Positive | -0.9% | Akamai reported enterprise AI usage risks and proposed a CISO roadmap. |
| Jul 15 | AI threat report | Positive | -4.8% | Akamai detailed AI bot attacks, agentic fraud, and commerce cybersecurity risks. |
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Akamai's recent news events generally recorded negative 24-hour reactions, including several constructive security and AI announcements.
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“Microsegmentation is providing value in more security contexts,” report states
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 18, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As microsegmentation plays an increasingly critical role in organizations’ broader security initiatives, Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) today announced it was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Microsegmentation Solutions, Q3 2026 report. Forrester evaluated 10 total vendors in the microsegmentation space against 25 criteria. Akamai received the highest scores possible in asset discovery, flow enrichment, visualization, policy administration, public cloud networking enforcement, administrative experience, Zero Trust network access integration, exposure reporting, threat detection and response, innovation, and supporting services and offerings criteria.
The report notes, “Microsegmentation once fit squarely in the realm of on-premises network security and was often considered an undertaking for organizations at higher levels of Zero Trust maturity. As resilience becomes more of a strategic focal point for security and risk pros, microsegmentation can and should play a larger role in organizations’ broader security initiatives, because advancements in the ease of deployment and operation have made microsegmentation suitable for a wider range of organizations, and it can provide important capabilities outside of network security.”
Forrester writes that “Reducing toil is an objective that permeates cybersecurity and is particularly salient in microsegmentation. Akamai is focusing its innovation efforts on creating an autonomous containment platform that requires less toil and expertise while improving the speed and accuracy of policy enforcement. It pairs product capabilities with structured, outcome-based professional services to ensure successful implementations and help organizations secure enterprise AI usage and defend against AI-powered threats.”
Akamai pairs autonomous product capabilities with native threat intelligence and structured, outcome-based professional services. This combination helps security teams protect enterprise AI use, identify exposed assets, and automatically isolate compromised workloads before an incident turns into a major breach.
“For us, being recognized as a Leader in this evaluation reflects our commitment to make segmentation faster and more intuitive for our customers,” said Ofer Wolf, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Enterprise Security with Akamai. “In our opinion, the report clearly demonstrates that security teams don’t have to compromise between deep protection and operational simplicity.”
Read more about the Akamai Guardicore Platform and how organizations can achieve their microsegmentation goals.
About Akamai
Akamai is the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online. Our market-leading security solutions, superior threat intelligence, and global operations team provide defense in depth to safeguard enterprise data and applications everywhere. Akamai’s full-stack cloud computing solutions deliver performance and affordability on the world’s most distributed platform. Global enterprises trust Akamai to provide the industry-leading reliability, scale, and expertise they need to grow their business with confidence. Learn more at akamai.com and akamai.com/blog, or follow Akamai Technologies on X and LinkedIn.
Forrester does not endorse any company, product, brand, or service included in its research publications and does not advise any person to select the products or services of any company or brand based on the ratings included in such publications. Information is based on the best available resources. Opinions reflect judgment at the time and are subject to change. This report is part of a broader collection of Forrester resources, including interactive models, frameworks, tools, data, and access to analyst guidance. For more information, read about Forrester's objectivity here.
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