Accenture MDR Quick Start Guide for Akamai Enterprise Application Access

This quick start guide will help Accenture MDR customers configure Akamai Enterprise Application Access to collect logs to the Log collection Platform (LCP).

This document includes the following topics:

Supported Versions

A list of supported versions is available in the Accenture Security Supported Products List document (Accenture_MDR_Supported_Products_List.xlsx) which can be found in Accenture MDR Portal.

Port Requirements

Table 1-1: Port requirements for LCP communication.

Configuring Akamai Enterprise Application

An API client contains authentication tokens that secure the interactions between your application and the Akamai platform.

These instructions show you how to create an API client and configure credentials. After that, you can use Akamai APIs and the Akamai CLI to make calls on the Akamai network.

Pre-requisites :

Access to Akamai Control Center with the correct roles and permissions to create API clients and manage credentials
IDM: API Clients – User Access
IDM: API Clients – Admin Access

Create an authentication credential that contains the client token and client secret required to authenticate Akamai API

1. Navigate to Control Tower , click on Identity and Access Management from the hamburger icon on the left.

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2. Click on “New API Client for me“- highlighted above - and select quick from the API options to instantly create an API client and a credential for the Akamai APIs you can access.

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3. You will then receive the credentials for the API client. Download it in a secure manner.

4. Click on “Edit API client“ button at the bottom to select API and necessary permissions. In API , choose “Select API“ radio button to see all available APIs.

5. Choose the API that you want and select the permission as READ - WRITE.

6. Click on SAVE .

The client’s name, description, and notification list populate for you in the Details section. You can change this information at any time. The credential and your client token appear in the Credentials section. The credential includes the client token and client secret you need to authenticate Akamai API requests.

For more information refer : https://techdocs.akamai.com/developer/docs/set-up-authentication-credentials

LCP Configuration Parameters

Table 1-2: The Akamai Enterprise Application Access event collector (API -5022) properties to be configured by MDR are given in table.