Black Hat Presentation - Web Cache Entanglement

Overview Akamai is aware of the 'Web Cache Entanglement: Novel Pathways to Poisoning' presentation at BlackHat on August 5, 2020. Two security vulnerabilities related to our content delivery networks' caching functionality were presented as part of this research. Akamai would like to thank James...

Making the Most of SPS Secure Consumer: Go To Market Best Practices

Seeing opportunities as residential internet services have been transformed into business internet services, ISPs and Mobile Network Operators MNOs are making moves to use the power of their networks to protect customers. As they progress through the decision and deployment cycles, we often get...

Online Holiday Shopping followed the Hot Topics of 2019: Mobile & Security

Here's what I learned this past holiday season: I'm not alone shopping on my mobile device on Christmas Day and Boxing Day. And while Hollywood actors may take the holidays off, threat actors certainly do not. Let's have a look at some of the numbers. Akamai has a lot of data, but let's look at...

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...

Drive Greater Efficiencies in Reaching a Distributed Audience with One-to-Many Delivery

The Challenge: Achieve Consistent Contribution while Maximizing Audience Reach Audiences are becoming increasingly distributed not only from a geographical perspective, but also in the channels viewers use when consuming live content. Content providers need a solution to efficiently and easily...

Are you ready for the holidays?

It's November, which means the holiday season is upon us and retailers are working tirelessly to get their websites, apps and infrastructures ready to deliver a secure and exceptional customer experience during the peak holiday season. If past data is any indication of things to come, 2017 promis...

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 Nansh0u Campaign – Hackers Arsenal Grows Stronger

In the beginning of April, three attacks detected in the Guardicore Global Sensor Network GGSN caught our attention. All three had source IP addresses originating in South-Africa and hosted by VolumeDrive ISP see IoCs...

This Is a Hold-Up: Financial Services Under Attack

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The Agentic Security Crisis: Why You Need to Act Now

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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...

Akamai EdgeWorkers for SaaS: Balancing Customization and Security

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The Never-Ending Phishing Scam: When “Natalie Hamilton” Reemerged with a Vengeance (and Power Drill)

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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...

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...

The “PhoneHome” DDoS Attack — Everything You Need to Know

A vulnerability in enterprise collaboration suite MiCollab by telecommunications company Mitel has been abused for distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks with record-breaking amplification potential...

What Microsoft Bing’s IndexNow Means for CDN Users

Microsoft Bing today announced the rollout of IndexNow, a new protocol designed in conjunction with Yandex that can allow “websites to easily notify search engines whenever their website content is created, updated, or deleted.” The goal is to reduce the amount of time it takes for search engines...

Dogged Persistence -- The Name of the Game for One DDoS Attacker

With DDoS, we typically observe a moderate degree of attacker persistence. DDoS attacks are relatively easy to launch from a number of online booter services, and the availability of cryptocurrencies for payment has made it easy to remain anonymous. Attackers can try their hand at DDoS for little...

Akamai Launch Cohort 2 of Accelerator Program for Early-Stage Innovations in Water

Akamai Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. has chosen the grantees for Cohort 2 of Accelerator Program for Early-Stage Innovations in Water. The Accelerator Program enables grantees to ideate their technology-based solutions for water conservation. This year, two grantees -- SmartTerra and Jaljeevika --...

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...

The Internet Didn't Break. Now What?

Even though it was only November, it seems like an eternity ago that Akamai CEO Tom Leighton discussed the then-forthcoming "streaming explosion" on Variety's "Strictly Business" podcast. Tom spoke with Variety Co-Editor-in-Chief Andrew Wallenstein about the upcoming launches of streaming service...

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...

Inspecting TLS Web Traffic - Part 1

In this series of blogs I'm going to talk about how the continued move towards all web traffic being encrypted has impacted enterprise security. In this blog I'm going to focus on the basics - what is encrypted web traffic and how can you proactively control this. TLS encryption is the de-facto...

October Release: Q&A with Ari Weil

Shortly after Akamai announced the October 2019 Release with new features and capabilities across its security, performance and media product lines, Akamai's VP of Product Marketing, Ari Weil, took over Akamai's Twitter account for a live October Release Q&A. For those that missed the live event,...

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...

Tailor Video Experiences for Your End Viewers with Manifest Personalization

While the number of online viewers continues to grow, content providers must be able to deliver high quality video streams, flawlessly at scale to meet the demands of these audiences. This is no small task as high volumes of requests often come from various locations, diverse device types and...

Go Live! Addressable, Ad-Supported, Live Video At Scale

Live streaming poses a unique set of challenges and online audiences can only be monetized to the extent that they remain engaged. From an advertising perspective, the viewing experience between your live content and the ads needs to not only be seamless, but also highly targeted in order to...

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...

Summer SOTI - Web Attacks

Continuing Changes Welcome to the second blog post for the Summer 2018 State of the Internet / Security. If you've read the SOTI / Security report before, much of what you see here should be familiar, though the time frame we're looking at is the six months from November 2017 to April 2018, inste...

Platypuses and Policies: Akamai's Approach to the GDPR and Information Security

Written by Meyer Potashman On May 25, 2018, the EU General Data Protection Regulation GDPR went into effect. In preparation, Akamai, like every other company that does business with or interacts in any way with individuals in the EU, needed to re-evaluate our approach to data protection and priva...

Make way for HTTPS - Starting July 2018, Google Chrome will mark all HTTP sites as "not secure"

Days of clear-text HTTP, the original but insecure foundation for data communication over the web, are numbered. Over the past few years, Google and others such as the Internet Architecture Board, Mozilla, and Apple have nudged developers to encrypt and authenticate their websites using HTTPS whi...

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...

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...

CVE-2026-23864: React and Next.js Denial of Service via Memory Exhaustion

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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 Prevents the Largest DDoS Attack on a U.S. Financial Company

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Cold Hard Cache — Bypassing RPC Interface Security with Cache Abuse

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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...

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 ...

Jest Mocks—Unit Testing for EdgeWorkers

In case you haven’t already been working with EdgeWorkers, it allows you to run JavaScript code across more than 4,200 locations for proximity to users and fast application response times. With more and more application functionality moving to the edge, it’s increasingly important to ensure that...

Targeted Cache Control

Content delivery networks CDNs have been around and have evolved over a long time in internet years. They all speak HTTP and you can safely rely on them to work with just about anything else that speaks HTTP. This is the beauty of standards -- HTTP in this case. What you cannot count on is there...

Akamai Startup Program: Fostering Innovation

Akamai, the intelligent edge platform for securing and delivering digital experiences, continues to focus on innovation by launching Cohort 2 of the Akamai Startup program. Started in India in 2019, the Akamai Startup program leverages the startup ecosystem to drive Akamai's strategic priorities...

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...

Cyber Monday - The Biggest Shopping Day of the Year?

Do you remember when Cyber Monday wasn't a thing? In late November 2005, The New York Times reported: "The name Cyber Monday grew out of the observation that millions of otherwise productive working Americans, fresh off a Thanksgiving weekend of window shopping, were returning to high-speed...

Smart DNS for the New Network Edge

This is the first in a series of blog posts that will discuss how smart DNS resolvers can enhance ongoing ISP and MNO network transformation efforts such as the transition to 5G, better integration of Wi-Fi, and new network designs that optimize the edge to improve service delivery and network...

Tale of the Tape: Top 5 Reasons Phishing Attacks Haven't Dried Up

One of my favourite websites is archive.org OK, so I'm a nerd. For anyone not familiar with this website, it's essentially a time machine that allows you to go back and look at pretty much any site from a point in time over the past 20-odd years. Recently I came across a story on the BBC website...

No Excuses: Why Brands Must Manage PII Better

Consumer retail is a major economic driver around the world. Global retail revenue was estimated at $24 trillion in 2018, split between $21.2 trillion of in-store spend and $2.8 trillion online. In fact, the outlook for brick and mortar retail pre-Covid-19 was surprisingly positive. According to ...

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...