Don't Risk Getting Caught by Kr3pto Phishing Kits

Akamai's threat research team recently published a report showing that a new phishing toolkit named Kr3pto was targeting UK banking customers. A phishing kit is an all-in-one software package that lets just about anyone create and launch phishing attacks designed to steal user data by posing as a...

Simplifying Data Center and IaaS Visibility and Protection

Helping customers further secure their on-premises data centers and IaaS deployments is an interesting new use case for our Enterprise Threat Protector service. Enterprises typically have a significant number of applications that are deployed and run in these environments. I'm using the word...

Business Continuity and Security in an Uncertain Global Environment

The need for companies to quickly enable remote access to business-critical applications was highlighted in a recent Akamai blog -- Enabling Business Continuity in an Uncertain Global Environment. However, despite the current environment, what is already evident is that once businesses have...

March 2020 -- What's New in Security, Part 2

Welcome to Akamai's March 2020 Release. As we covered yesterday, this release offers a week of product updates, with each day highlighting continued innovations across a different area of Akamai's portfolio: Monday and Tuesday feature two days of security updates. There's a lot going on in Akamai...

Akamai Enhances Enterprise Threat Protector to Add Secure Web Gateway Capabilities

Today, Akamai announced that it has added secure web gateway SWG capabilities to its Enterprise Threat Protector ETP service to help enterprises further accelerate their transformation to a Zero Trust security architecture. So what are the SWG enhancements and what benefits will these deliver for...

Inspecting TLS Web Traffic - Part 2

In the first blog post I covered why HTTPS web traffic has grown to unprecedented levels, provided a TLS primer and looked at the basic concept of intercepting and inspecting HTTPS web traffic with Man-In-The-Middle techniques MITM. In the second part, I will dive a bit deeper into how the TLS MI...

The Benefits of a Single Provider DNS Platform

I've written in previous blogs about the value of using DNS as a security control point and how using a DNS based security solution like Akamai's Enterprise Threat Protector can help accelerate your transition to a Zero Trust security approach. In this blog, I'm going to cover how in addition to...

Akamai and Microsoft: Delivering a Better Zero Trust Access Model for the Hybrid Enterprise Together

The best partnerships evolve over time and are forged with a common goal. Microsoft and Akamai have partnered for years with the common goal of delivering integrated solutions that address real customer problems. A great example is optimizing global end-user performance for cloud workloads with...

Firefox DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and Enterprise Threat Protector

Recursive DNS communications are normally unencrypted between a client and a resolver. In an effort to improve user privacy and address security concerns, Mozilla announced it would begin enabling DNS over HTTPS DoH by default in its Firefox browser. However, Mozilla recognized it would be...

DNS Protection: A "Must" in Security Solutions for any Company

Domain name system DNS services are often a point of vulnerability for businesses, so DNS security has become a growing concern for many of them. DNS is a critical element for all companies because it turns domain names into internet protocol IP addresses. Cyber criminals have been digging into D...

Securing Your Direct Internet Access Connections

With the rapid uptake in SaaS applications and the ease of moving enterprise applications from the data center to the cloud, many global companies are transforming the way they connect branch offices. In the past, the conventional approach was to connect all of your locations over an MPLS Wide Ar...

New Delegated Administration feature in Enterprise Threat Protector

Managing security configurations for large organizations with locations scattered around the world can be challenging. Likewise, some businesses have multiple operating divisions that are separate entities but all use the same IT infrastructure. As an IT leader, you likely want to have consistenc...

U.S. Mid-term Elections and Akamai Enterprise Threat Protector

The last few years have witnessed seismic changes in the world's political landscape and the way elections have been conducted. As of yet, there's no conclusive evidence that the results and outcomes of a country's election process have been impacted by the cyber efforts of internal or foreign...

Managing Thousands of users in Hundreds of branches with a few clicks

We live in a global business world. Almost on a daily basis, we see organizations expanding rapidly across geographies. While businesses in every industry can have international sites, some verticals like banking, finance, education, and retail are more apt to have corporate offices in multiple...

Zero Trust Security Architectures - Akamai's Approach

This is Part 5 of a 5 part blog series. Jump to Part 1: Introduction Jump to Part 2: Network Micro-Segmentation Jump to Part 3: Software Defined Perimeter Jump to Part 4: Identity Aware Proxy Introduction In the first part of this blog series, we covered an overview of zero trust architecture...

Accelerating Your Zero Trust Security Transformation with Enterprise Threat Protector

The basic concepts of zero trust security are relatively simple: trust nothing, verify everything, and maintain consistent controls. But, for CISOs and CIOs charged with transforming their legacy moats and castles architecture to one that allows their enterprises to embrace all of the benefits of...

Getting the most out of your branch local connection

In our global world of business, organizations often have multiple branch offices spanning every country. Some of these branches are quite large with their own IT infrastructure and personnel, while some are very small with just a few employees. In the past, these branch offices were connected to...

How's that Security Back Door Doing? (Part 2)

In the first part of this blog post I wrote about how recursive DNS rDNS is an attack surface that many enterprises don't currently protect. Bad actors are exploiting that fact and developing advanced targeted threats that use DNS to bypass conventional security tools such as firewalls, secure we...

Tailoring YouTube for Your Requirements

Did you know around 300 hours of video content is uploaded to YouTube every minute of every day? That's a staggering amount of content. However, while a huge amount of that uploaded content is harmless and innocuous - think fluffy kittens - YouTube is also the destination of choice for a large...

Make Application Access IT-Friendly

More and more companies are looking at alternatives to VPNs due to the security risks associated with network level access. And increasingly, the goal is to eliminate network trust through a zero trust architecture - which is one of the primary reasons many of these organizations are deploying...