Meet Andy Zollo, SVP of APJ Sales

Andy Zollo, who led the Imperva business in EMEA, relocated to Singapore in October to be Senior Vice President of Sales for the combined Imperva and Thales CPL businesses in the APJ region. With a wealth of experience in sales leadership and business transformation, Andy is set to play a vital...

Chinese Espionage Hackers Exploit ESXi Zero-Day

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The Chinese-sponsored hacking group, UNC3886, has been actively exploiting the CVE-2023-20867 vulnerability and using advanced backdoors such as VirtualPita and VirtualPie to carry out malicious activiti...

Akamai Welcomed Partners to a Memorable Asia-Pacific and Japan Partner Summit

Learn about the recent Akamai APJ Partner Summit 2022, including new revenue opportunities for our partners – and the awards we gave...

A Closer Look at Ransomware Attack Trends in APJ

Read about the surge of ransomware as a service RaaS cyberattack trends in APJ, and the infamous and prolific Conti group’s role in them...

Panchan’s Mining Rig: New Golang Peer-to-Peer Botnet Says “Hi!”

Akamai researchers have discovered a new P2P botnet targeting APJ. Read about it here...

Becoming a Comms and Analyst Relations Leader, Rita Aspen - Head, Communications & Analyst Relations, APJ

My parents were first-generation immigrants from India. They worked hard, made Singapore their home and took all and any challenges head on. They have always lived by the simple philosophy, 'to be the change'. It's a philosophy that I try to live too, and in many ways it's what attracted me to...

How to avoid getting caught in a “Groundhog Day” loop of security issues

It’s Cyber Security Awareness Month and it made me think about one of my favorite movies, called Groundhog Day. Have you ever seen it? Bill Murray is the cynical weatherman, Phil Connors, who gets stuck in an endless loop where he repeats the same day over and over again until he “participates in...

Prolexic Platform Enhancements - New APJ Scrubbing Centers and More

by Don Ng and Greg Burns This October, Akamai is announcing the turn-up of two additional Prolexic DDoS mitigation scrubbing centers in Singapore and Osaka, building on the nine previous scrubbing centers turned up this year and adding to our existing APJ footprint in Sydney, Tokyo, and Hong Kong...