Closing the Gap Between Detection and Protection With AI-Assisted Custom Rules
Akamai Technologies, Monday, August 24th, 2026
Akamai's Custom Rule Builder AI Assistant turns natural-language prompts into deployable custom WAF rules.
Akamai addresses the insight-action gap: security teams have grown good at detecting threats but converting those findings into active protections still takes time and specialist skill.
The Custom Rule Builder AI Assistant lets analysts describe the protection they want in natural language and generates a corresponding custom rule.
The goal is to reduce the effort needed to create protections and make rule-writing expertise accessible to more of the team. Akamai says the assistant is designed with guardrails so generated rules stay within safe bounds, helping teams move from insight to action faster.