Understanding influences shaping the cybersecurity landscape, enabling digital transformation, and helping to protect our planet

The accelerated rate of digital transformation we have seen this past year presents both challenges and endless opportunities for individuals, organizations, businesses, and governments around the world. Cybersecurity is the underpinning of helping protect these opportunities. By examining the...

Advance Your Career: Life as a Rapid7 Belfast Software Engineer

At Rapid7, we believe that by hiring a diverse team with different levels of experience and varying backgrounds, we can ChallengeConvention as OneMoose, push the boundaries of our thinking, and pursue our goals of continuous innovation to achieve secure advancement for all. As we continue to buil...

CISO Spotlight: How diversity of data (and people) defeats today’s cyber threats

This year, we have seen five significant security paradigm shifts in our industry. This includes the acknowledgment that the greater the diversity of our data sets, the better the AI and machine learning outcomes. This diversity gives us an advantage over our cyber adversaries and improves our...

Why Take It to the Edge

Edge computing is the next natural paradigm shift in IT, bringing a new wave of decentralization. Over the past decade, IT has embraced two seemingly juxtaposed trends: the consolidation of infrastructure and data in private, public, or hybrid clouds, and the growing distribution and diversity of...

Microsoft Security: How to cultivate a diverse cybersecurity team

Boost creative problem solving with a diverse cybersecurity team In cybersecurity, whether we are talking about cryptocurrency mining, supply chain attacks, attacks against IoT, or COVID-19-related phishing lures, we know that gaining the advantage over our adversaries requires greater diversity ...

Verizon Media, PayPal, Twitter Top Bug-Bounty Rankings

Bug-bounty programs have become a popular way for vendors to root out security flaws in their platforms, attracting talented white-hats with the promise of big rewards. According to HackerOne’s 2020 List of the Top 10 Bug Bounty Programs on its platform, Verizon Media, PayPal and Uber are in the...

Respect and Equal Protection For Everyone

We are profoundly distressed by the racism, bigotry and violence committed against people of color in our society and by public institutions. Here at Akamai, we have no tolerance for discrimination. We value our diversity. It is a strength of our organization. And in a moment when many people are...

Welcoming a more diverse workforce into cybersecurity: expanding the pipeline

Despite much focus on increasing the number of women in cybersecurity, as an industry we are still falling short. For many companies the problem starts with the tech pipeline—there just aren’t enough resumes from qualified female candidates. But I think the real problem is that our definition of...

Change the Rules Speaker Event

Akamai's Women's Forum Americas, OHANA and In Reach Employee Resource Groups recently hosted Cross ERG 'Change the Rules' Keynote - Celebration of Black History Month in our Chicago office. We were excited to have notable Michelle Silverthorn, CEO of Inclusion Nation, a company that focuses on...

Centreon 19.10.5 - Remote Command Execution

Exploit Title: Centreon 19.10.5 - Remote Command Execution Date: 2020-01-27 Exploit Author: Fabien AUNAY, Omri BASO Vendor Homepage: https://www.centreon.com/ Software Link: https://github.com/centreon/centreon Version: 19.10.5 Tested on: CentOS 7 CVE : - Centreon 19.10.5 Remote Command Execution...

Managing Traffic From the Outset - How GTM Can Make Your Deployments Easier

What is GTM Global Traffic Management, or GTM, is a DNS-based load balancing service that offers application owners a level of flexibility and insight that is unmatched by traditional on-prem solutions. Highly scalable and fault-resilient, GTM offers customers a layer of abstraction between...

A Peak at the Edge: Akamai Sets New Traffic Benchmark

Last week Akamai reached a significant milestone when traffic on our intelligent edge platform exceeded the threshold of 100 Tbps terabits per second for the first time in our history, peaking at 106 Tbps. To put that volume of traffic into context, delivering 106 terabits per second is roughly t...

Microsoft’s 4 principles for an effective security operations center

The Microsoft Cyber Defense Operations Center CDOC fields trillions of security signals every day. How do we identify and respond to the right threats? One thing that won’t surprise you: we leverage artificial intelligence AI, machine learning, and automation to narrow the focus. But technology i...

In Conversation: It's Never Too Late

There can be barriers to pursuing a career in tech. For many people, the journey isn't straightforward. Many of our Akamai employees have diverse backgrounds and have overcome obstacles to pursue their dream career. Often, the way forward into a...

Deployment Diversity for DNS Resiliency

Consider Addressing Delegation Servers with Varying Network Routes Written by: Jim Gilbert and Barry Greene Don't Forget DNS Similar to diverse workforces performing at a higher level, diverse network service deployments perform at a higher level that is increasingly important as the Internet...

Get security beyond Microsoft products with Microsoft 365

Over time, organizations and individuals acquire stuff. Things we love and things we need. Things we don’t need but can’t seem to get rid of. I was confronted with this challenge when we bought a 1908 craftsman home. How could I make my beloved modern furniture and mandatory kid-friendly gear wor...

CyberAegis Aether Competition Team Reflects Bright Future for Young Women in STEM & Cybersecurity

I am always excited to get involved in conversations around getting more young women into STEM earlier. Recently, I was able to catch up with the members of the CyberAegis Aether team, an all-girls, middle school cybersecurity competition team. Here is what they had to say: Tell us a little bit...

BlueHat Shanghai 2019 Call for Papers is Now Open!

We know security experts with diverse skills and experiences are found around the world. This year, the BlueHat Security Conference is coming to Shanghai! BlueHat Shanghai 2019 will take place on May 29-30 at W Shanghai - The Bund. We want to provide a venue for security researchers to come...

Cybersecurity and Class M Planets

I was considering another debate about appropriate cybersecurity measures and I had the following thought: not all networks are the same. Profound, right? This is so obvious, yet so obviously forgotten. Too often when confronting a proposed defensive measure, an audience approaches the concept fr...

September 29, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Autumn” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! September 29, 2017 - Headlines NY Regulator Says Equifax Making Progress on...