Comey testimony generates massive interest, massive traffic

Online viewers of former FBI Director James Comey's live testimony last week generated a massive peak of 2.5 Tbps of live streaming video traffic on the Akamai platform, despite the hearing occurring in the middle of the work week, in the middle of the work day. To put this in perspective, that 2...

REST API Security Best Practices

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Manage Akamai Features at the Edge with EdgeWorkers and EdgeKV

EdgeWorkers and EdgeKV lets you set feature flags that tailor content to different website visitors...

dhpcd: The Cryptominer That Hid for Four Years

Akamai Researchers have uncovered a long-running attack campaign attack targeting Linux SSH servers that has been running a monero cryptominer...

PCI DSS v4.0: Meeting Emerging Needs for Script Monitoring and Management

PCI DSS v4.0 makes Akamai Client-Side Protection & Compliance essential for any customer that processes or transmits cardholder data...

A Log4j Retrospective Part 4: 5 Lessons Learned from Log4j

Read about strategies to help protect against new and more impactful security threats and vulnerabilities in Log4j from Akamai CTO Charlie Gero...

Placing Accessibility at Akamai – In Reach

Encouraging and supporting open discussions about disability and mental health at work. We define disability as a condition that affects everyday activities — physically, cognitively, and/or neurologically. In Reach helps the Akamai community understand what disability means in the workplace. As ...

The Adaptive Security Engine – A Quantum Leap Forward for Application and API Protection

At Akamai, our mission is to make application and API security highly effective and easy. As part of that effort, we are excited to announce the Adaptive Security Engine -- a new core technology powering Akamai's application and API protection offerings, designed to enable a hands-off approach to...

The Edge is Becoming More Critical in a World of 5G and IoT

The edge is becoming more critical in a world of 5G and IoT. I've seen the evolution from 1x to 3G to 4G and now 5G over the many years I've worked in the mobile space, and 5G and IoT will drive the biggest changes we have seen on the edge in 10 or 20 years. This discussion is happening in the...

Working Together with Our Customers to Build a Sustainable Future

By now, we hope you've read Monday's and Tuesday's blog posts announcing the release of our annual sustainability report, our sustainability program, and the technical innovation behind it...

Can Edge Computing Exist Without the Edge? Part 2: Edge Computing

In part 1 of this series, I drew the architectural distinction between a centralized cloud platform and a distributed edge network. This is an important foundation upon which to explain the difference between cloud computing and edge computing. The two serve very different and complementary...

How Criminals Attack the Games Industry

If you work in the video games industry, it's already obvious that security is a challenge, and criminals are a threat. But how much do you know about how the criminal economy works? What actually motivates them? What specific methods do they use? And how do they interact with one another? If you...

Mitigating Credential Stuffing Attacks in the Financial Sector

If You Think Multi-Factor Authentication Prevents Credential Stuffing, Think Again! Financial services firms around the world are experiencing credential stuffing attacks at an alarming rate. Cybercriminals are using readily available automation tools, botnets, and compromised account credentials...

Record 0-Second SLA PPS Mitigation

Record-High 312 Mpps Attack Mitigated in 0 Seconds On May 2, 2020, Akamai blocked a large PPS-focused attack against one of our financial services customers in 0 seconds, utilizing a proactive mitigation posture. This was one of the largest PPS levels we have on record, and the biggest mitigated ...

Alleviating Digital Transformation Performance and Security Concerns

Businesses across the world are migrating applications to the cloud to reduce IT cost and complexity, and accelerate the pace of innovation. But when you move applications and services to the cloud you lose visibility and control over your infrastructure, increasing risk and uncertainty. That's w...

#OTTuesday: How to Secure the Bank of OTT

What does the concept of Herd Immunity have to do with OTT? To find out, I spoke with security expert Jay Coley for this AkamaiTV interview at IBC. Jay explained the biology - and the power - of cooperation in the face of growing security risks to broadcasters. Herd immunity is the concept that t...

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...

What to expect for this year's Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Last year during holidays, US online sales surpassed $122 billion. This represented a 12 percent increase over the previous year. But beyond the overall growth, what's more interesting is that sales at physical stores dropped by 10 percent, the result of ongoing consumer comfort with and adoption...

Regain reliability and control over the cloud with Application Load Balancer

It's no secret that businesses are rapidly adopting Cloud Service Providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform for cost efficiency, agility, scalability and global distribution to serve their customers more easily. A recent IDG survey indicates that 70% of...

Akamai Launches New Solution to Help Enterprise Security Teams Address the Impact of Malware, Ransomware, and DNS-based Data Exfiltration

Today, we are proud to introduce Akamai Enterprise Threat Protector ETP. ETP is designed to provide customers quick-to-deploy and easy-to-manage cloud-based protection against the impact of complex, targeted threats such malware, ransomware, phishing, and DNS‑based data exfiltration. One...

Updated Kmsdx Binary Shows KmsdBot Is Targeting the IoT Landscape

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Xurum: New Magento Campaign Discovered

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Akamai’s Prolexic Launches Sixth-Generation DDoS Platform Upgrade

Today, we are excited to announce a significant evolution of Akamai’s distributed denial-of-service DDoS protection solution, Prolexic...

Cold Hard Cache — Bypassing RPC Interface Security with Cache Abuse

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Akamai Accelerator Program: Technological Solutions for India’s Water Crisis

Akamai’s India Corporate Social Responsibility CSR Trust is helping to tackle this major challenge. In accordance with the country’s CSR mandates, the trust allocates 2% of the branch’s revenue to CSR programs. Its flagship initiative is the Akamai Accelerator Program, which supports innovators w...

What Does Fishing for Rebar Have to Do with Building a More Sustainable Internet?

Danny Lewin Community Care Days DLCCDs are a celebration of our late co-founder Danny Lewin’s generous spirit and his tenacious appetites for collaboration, innovation, and especially giving back to our global community. DLCCDs bring to life our values and empower all Akamai employees to voluntee...

UPnProxy: Eternal Silence

UPnProxy is alive and well. There are 277,000 devices, out of a pool of 3.5 million, running vulnerable implementations of UPnP. Of those, Akamai can confirm that more than 45,000 have been compromised in a widely distributed UPnP NAT injection campaign...

Toward Inclusive Language in Software

Akamai opposes racism in all its forms and is committed to providing an inclusive, fair, and respectful environment for both our customers and our employees. As part of this commitment, we are joining other technology-industry leaders in removing biased, oppressive, and racially insensitive...

CMAF... This is the Way

Optimize your streaming content catalog The debate is over. Common Media Application Format CMAF has delivered on its promise: one package to serve them all. Two of the highest profile direct-to-consumer DTC streaming service launches recently made the leap, validating that the time has come for...

Taking Content Protection to the Edge

To protect our industry, we need to protect our content. That's been an ongoing theme in conversations with Akamai's broadcast customers whose streaming offerings have evolved into critical business units. The revenue loss figures in question aren't trivial, nor is the scope of the impact. Global...

Embracing Data Privacy Day

January 28 is Data Privacy Day, commemorating the Council of Europe Treaty known as Convention 108, the first legally binding international treaty on data protection signed on January 28, 1981. This "holiday" was originally celebrated in Europe where it is known as Data Protection day. But in 200...

Customer Experience and IT

Earlier this month, Akamai participated in CX Day, a global event dedicated to the customer experience. This was our first time celebrating, and I was lucky enough to join my fellow leaders for the event. I got my start at Akamai in Professional Services, so CX has always been central to my work,...

Automate Firewall Protection on Your Website

by Volker Tegtmeyer and Hans Cathcart Have you ever felt like you did a great job protecting your mission-critical web applications, only to realize so many more web properties require your attention? Web properties are not all equal, and overloaded security teams can only focus on the most...

Don't let your factory plant become the next cybersecurity victim

In 2014, a smart refrigerator had been caught red-handed for spawning over 750,000 spam emails after hijacked by a botnet attack. It is the first documented attack worldwide for Internet of Things to have fallen prey to hackersi. A more recent case in the US concerns an internet connected...

Part 2: The Dark Side of APIs

Ryan Barnett, Principal Security Researcher, Akamai Elad Shuster, Senior Security Researcher, Akamai During its research into Credential Abuse attack campaigns, Akamai's threat research team conducted an analysis of web logins to gain insights into how widespread the adoption of API-based logins ...

The New Cyber Landscape: More Threats, But Fewer Security Professionals

Great news: If you're a security professional, your skills have never been more in demand. On the flip side, if you're looking for security talent, the search will likely be lengthy and difficult. ISACA predicts that by 2019 there will be a shortage of two million cyber security professionals...

Reduce cloud adoption risks and deliver superior digital experiences with Akamai Cloud Delivery Platform - Part 1

Businesses are rapidly moving to the cloud and a recent IDG survey indicates that 70% of businesses have at least 1 application in the cloud and 16% plan to take their first app to the cloud in the next 12 months. However public cloud providers present their own challenges. They are unreliable...

Akamai's DNS Contribution to Internet Resiliency

Background Akamai Technologies recently contributed its "Serve Stale" DNS algorithm to Version 9 of the Internet Systems Consortium's ISC Berkeley Internet Name Domain BIND open source Domain Name System DNS project. As the Internet's most widely used DNS implementation, BIND operates ubiquitousl...

HTTP/2 Server Push: The What, How and Why

What is HTTP/2 Server Push? How does it work? Why is it valuable? If you are looking for the answers to these questions, you've come to the right place. What it is HTTP/2 h2 Server Push is one of the performance features included in version 2 of the HTTP protocol. It allows the Web server to "pus...

The Oracle of Delphi Will Steal Your Credentials

Our deception technology is able to reroute attackers into honeypots, where they believe that they found their real target. The attacks brute forced passwords for RDP credentials to connect to the victim download and execute a previously undetected malware, which we named Trojan.sysscan...

Enhancements to Akamai API Security, Q2 2025

Akamai API Security updates 3.48 and 3.49 include Compliance Dashboard enhancements, integration with Zuplo API gateway, and expanded sensor coverage...

Keep Your Tech Flame Alive: Trailblazer Mie Elmkvist Schneider

In this Akamai FLAME Trailblazer blog post, Mie Elmkvist Schneider from Queue-it describes the differences between being a manager and being a leader...

Akamai Named an Overall Leader for Zero Trust Network Access

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AkaRank: Improving Popularity Rankings for Better Threat Intelligence, Part 2

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How to Cover 6 Core Areas of PCI Compliance with Armis and Akamai

The joint security solution from Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Armis supports PCI compliance requirements to protect consumer data across entire networks...

Adding Akamai Shared Domains to the Public Suffix List

Akamai plans to submit a number of our shared domains to the “PRIVATE” section of the Public Suffix List PSL at some point on or after March 31, 2022. The PSL contains multi-party domain suffixes and is used by a wide range of client software for example, web browsers to implement policy decision...

Log4j Bringing You Down? Try Infection Monkey’s New Log4Shell Attack Simulation

What if you could see how a real cyberattack might unfold in your network? Imagine the insights you would gain into your security posture if you could safely and easily simulate the behavior of malicious actors before they hit your defenses. That’s what the Infection Monkey does...

Forrester: Embrace Zero Trust for Australia’s Essential Eight

Understand why it's important to refine your organization’s approach. See how to enact a security model that protects your business and enables growth...

Location-and Device-agnostic Security for the Mobile Workforce

I've spent my entire career in technology and can still recall the time when a desktop PC was the only way to work. Truth be told, I'm also old enough to remember dumb terminals. I also remember my first company laptop -- a beast of a thing with a monochrome display so thick it came with an...

Defeating the Pirates

In Akamai's paper, "Inside the World of Video Pirates," we discovered why digital intellectual property theft aka "piracy" is possibly the most misunderstood form of cybercrime facing the TV, sports, and film industries. The paper explored how piracy strategically impacts the industry, how the...