What is a firewall ❓ Everything you need to know about

In the tech world, a firewall is a wellbeing network framework that screens and controls moving ever closer affiliation traffic dependent upon destined security rules. A firewall ordinarily draws up a line between a confided in affiliation and an untrusted affiliation, like the Internet.‍ What is...

"School From Home" Changes Residential Internet Safety and Security Dynamics

2020 has been a year of epic change as we all work together to minimize the adverse impact of COVID-19. There's been extensive coverage in blogs and media as businesses navigated a rapid transition to remote work for their employees and pivoted to address an entirely new set of security...

The Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA)

What Is CIPA? Enacted in 2000 by the United States Congress, the Children's Internet Protection Act CIPA limits children's exposure to explicit internet material such as obscene content. CIPA mandates that K-12 schools and public libraries must deploy technologies that filter this type of content...

Web Giants Scrambled to Head Off a Dangerous DDoS Technique

Firms like Google and Cloudflare raced to prevent an amplification attack that threatened to take down large portions of the internet with just a few hundred devices...

We Are Akamai: What Led Us Here

About Akamai and the blog We are the people at the heart of the internet. Every day, we work together to protect our customers, deliver ultimate experiences in the digital world, and connect people from far corners of the planet...

New York Lawmakers Want Anonymous Comments Banned

A bill before the New York State Assembly would essentially ban anonymous comments on New York-based Web sites. Earlier this week a Wired writer discovered a bill had been introduced this spring in both chambers called the Internet Protection Act. The proposed law would require that a Web site...

Interview:USSR

USSR Labs USSR Labs their website , their slogan is "USSR is back", that is, "USSR is back", their symbol is a bulldog in a strict collar broke into the world of computer security relatively recently, but very decisive. Somewhere, probably last fall interview taken in 2000 - editor's note, they...