Corporate Office and Kitchen Table: Securing the Future of Work, Part 1

The future of work is multi-modal, the future corporate office is a private coffee shop with great Wi-Fi, and the future of enterprise security is going to have to adapt rapidly. If there is a sliver of positivity that I can find in this devastating pandemic, it's that we are adapting and finding...

Time for a Haircut

Like many people around the world, my hair has grown profusely in the past few months and bears little resemblance to the photo in my profile. Without the required care and attention, my hair is getting dangerously close to the bad hairstyles I adopted in the 1980s. I could of course attempt to f...

What's New In Security

It's that time of year again. Here at our global headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the days are getting shorter at least in terms of sunrise and sunset. Gone are the 90 degree days of summer; 60 is the new normal. And as we are now in the midst of the final months of the year, Starbucks i...

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...

I can Haz TLS 1.3 ?

Everybody wants to be able to use TLS 1.3. Among the reasons are: It's faster - being able to reconnect to a server you've previously used, and saving a full round-trip latency is impressive. It's more reliable - the protocol has been cleaned up and simplified. For example, the related concepts o...

Reducing Infrastructure Cost with new Enterprise Application Access Architecture

In an earlier blog, "Remote Access no longer needs to be Complex and Cumbersome", I wrote about the new game-changing remote access solution available from Akamai called Enterprise Application Access EAA. My thesis was that in our cloud-first, mobile-dominated world, providing access to...

Supply Chain Security: Akamai from a Customer's Risk Perspective

Managing risk is a key aspect of any business. This becomes more complicated when additional parties, such as vendors are brought into the mix. One of the strongest pieces of guidance on managing vendors that customers have brought to Akamai comes from the US Office of the Comptroller of the...

PLEASE_READ_ME: The Opportunistic Ransomware Devastating MySQL Servers

Guardicore Labs uncovers a Ransomware detection campaign targeting MySQL servers. Attackers use Double Extortion and publish data to pressure victims...

Agentic Disconnect: The Latency Crisis Facing Modern AI Architecture

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Understand the Shift Toward AI-Driven Interactions: ​A Guide to MCP

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From Discovery to Testing: Akamai and Snyk Deliver Seamless API Security

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Akamai EdgeWorkers and Uniform: Personalize Web Pages at Scale Without Flicker

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Protecting Small and Medium-Sized Businesses from Cyberthreats

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OWASP Top 10 API Security Risks: The 2023 Edition Is Finally Here

We review the final changes in the 2023 update to the OWASP Top 10 API Security Risks to help you on your journey to secure your APIs...

Akamai and the Adoption of Post-Quantum Cryptography

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Defeating Triple Extortion Ransomware: The Potent Combo of Ransomware and DDoS Attacks

Protect your organization from triple extortion ransomware – the devastating combination of ransomware and a DDoS attack – with these four steps...

Himalaya Exchange Creates a New Digital Financial System

The Himalaya Exchange offers a new cryptocurrency that is designed to be resistant to extreme price volatility. A key aim for the company is to provide a revolutionary financial solution for the new digital age. Akamai is delighted that this hugely innovative company has chosen us to deliver a...

A Definitive Guide to the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Filter

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Passwords — Extinction Event Looming?

Passwords are the bane of users and security teams’ lives. Despite years of security teams educating users about not using 123456 as a password, not recycling passwords across multiple personal and professional accounts, and implementing even more rigorous password rules and investments in passwo...

Catch Me if You Can—JavaScript Obfuscation

While conducting threat research on phishing evasion techniques, Akamai came across threat actors using obfuscation and encryption, making the malicious page harder to detect. The criminals were using JavaScript to pull this off...

Stealthworker: Golang-based Brute Force Malware Still an Active Threat

By: Larry Cashdollar Malware that can target Windows and Linux systems was recently installed on my honeypot. After some investigation, I determined it to be similar to the malware discovered in February of 2019 by Malwarebytes, and later examined by...

Accelerate Migration from Legacy WAM While Enabling Zero Trust Access with EAA and Single-Host Access

Customers are in the process of replacing their legacy proxy/WAM solutions with modern Identity-Aware Proxies to enable Zero Trust access to business applications and services. Akamai's Identity Aware proxy enables secure remote access for end users from anywhere, on any device, to business...

Protecting your Domain Names: Taking the First Steps

Everyone and everything on the Internet depends on the Domain Name System DNS being functional. The DNS has been a common vector for attacks in recent years, and 2019 seems to be no different. Many of these attacks have goals far more sinister than simply taking a company offline or defacing a...

Ensure Highly Reliable First Mile Connectivity with Akamai Direct Connect

As linear OTT video services become mainstream, many broadcasters and online video distributors are increasingly looking for new ways to enhance service reliability. Many who manage their own origin infrastructures within a datacenter environment are seeking added assurance for ingest of their...

Time to Eliminate Traditional VPNs

It is time to stop trusting your endpoints implicitly and reduce the complexity and risk associated with traditional VPN access and flat networks. Varied digital ecosystems, cloud migration, and workforce mobility have created a climate where the network perimeter no longer exists. This is eviden...

No Apps Left Behind on Your Zero Trust Journey

Complexity kills productivity. When it comes to enabling application access, enterprises should not have to choose between user experience and complex techniques that ensure application security. Traditionally, perimeter security is built on an assumption that whatever is inside the perimeter is...

Summer SOTI - DDoS by the numbers

Time for a Change The State of the Internet / Security report has been the home for Akamai's research on DDoS, attack traffic and Internet threats for over three years. While the report has evolved and expanded its scope considerably over that time, the content and how it's presented have only se...

Take a Tour of New Routed Dashboard

As a product manager, there are few things more rewarding than finally putting your product into the hands of your customer for the first time. We've been working on the new Routed Dashboard for some time, and I've personally spoken to many of you in terms of what would make our new interface mor...

Akamai 2018 Spring Release, In A Nutshell

Progressing Towards Our Future in The Cloud, Together As organizations continue to fuel and execute on their digital transformation ambitions, they're increasingly finding significant business agility and cost savings by adopting cloud, multi-cloud, or hybrid architectures. Availability, security...

Zero Trust and the Slowly Boiled Frog

Disclaimer: No actual frogs were harmed in the writing of the blog post. We wouldn't do that. We like frogs. What is Zero Trust Networking? The Zero Trust security model was proposed by John Kindervag of Forrester Research back in 2010. The concept is that the traditional trust model of "trust, b...

Solve Multi-CDN Entitlement Drift with Edge Functions Without Losing Viewers

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Highlights from the Akamai India Partner Summit 2026

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AI Survey: 50% of Organizations Struggle to Maintain Latency at Scale

The Akamai State of AI Inference report captures real data from the field that describes how AI inference is being built and scaled in production today...

RSAC 2026: Tag in a Partner for the AI Security Showdown

Legacy security wasn't built for autonomous AI. See how Akamai partners are stepping into the ring to build trust and secure the agentic enterprise...

Akamai Enables Post-Quantum Cryptography on the Edge

Learn about the latest development in our post-quantum journey: Support for post-quantum cryptography on the Akamai edge...

CVE-2025-32094: HTTP Request Smuggling Via OPTIONS + Obsolete Line Folding

In March 2025, Akamai received a bug bounty report identifying an HTTP Request Smuggling vulnerability that was quickly resolved for all customers...

Beyond the Edge: Complementing WAAP with Always-On API Security

Learn best practices for API security — and explore why WAAP on its own isn’t enough...

Support Telecom Providers on the Journey from Telco to Techco

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Safeguard Medical Devices: New H-ISAC Guidance on Cusp of FDA Rule

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Identifying a DNS Exfiltration Attack That Wasn’t Real — This Time

A recent red team DNS exfiltration alert confirms that Akamai Secure Internet Access is an effective security tool for this type of detection and analysis...

Managing Hype Events to Delight Customers, Not Bot Operators

Learn how to prepare for your hype event so you ensure your goods are available for your loyal customers … and not bots...

An Overview of MS-RPC and Its Security Mechanisms

MS-RPC is a widely used protocol, but not much security research is done on it. In this blog, see an overview of MS-RPC and their security mechanisms...

Akamai Named a 2022 Gartner� Magic Quadrant Leader for Cloud Web Application and API Protection

Akamai was named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner� Magic Quadrant for Cloud Web Application and API Protection WAAP report, and was positioned highest for Ability to Execute and furthest for Completeness of Vision...

Akamai Named a 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant Leader for Cloud Web Application and API Protection

Akamai was named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Cloud Web Application and API Protection WAAP report, and was positioned highest for Ability to Execute and furthest for Completeness of Vision...

Demystify Supply Chain Emissions with Akamai’s New Carbon Calculator

Oftentimes, organizations view supply chains as an extension of their own business and require suppliers to adhere to codes of conduct, efficiency standards, and more. Today, this has expanded to environmental sustainability goals as well. Companies understand that the environmental impact of the...

Akamai and Linode: Giving Developers One Place to Build, Run, and Secure Apps

I am incredibly excited to announce that today we have completed the acquisition of Linode. You may have seen our press release announcing the acquisition, or listened to our earnings call during which our executives discussed why this is the right strategic investment for Akamai. But I wanted to...

Greenwashing or Legit?

I think we can all agree that sustainability is one of the most important topics that we will discuss this year. It's driving consumer habits, business practices, and investment decisions. And it’s a discussion that’s happening at every level of the business; from procurement all the way up to th...

Akamai Wins Brandon Hall Award for Best Learning Technology

The Technical Enablement and Education team, part of Akamai’s Global Services organization, has won a coveted Brandon Hall Group silver medal for “Excellence in Technology,” for their automatic hands-on Lab Validation System LVS. The automatic LVS is used throughout Global Service training course...

Universal Plug and Play (UPnP): What You Need to Know

Universal Plug and Play UPnP is a widely used protocol with a decade-long history of flawed implementations across a wide range of consumer devices. In this paper, we will cover how these aws are still present on devices, how these vulnerabilities are actively being abused, and how a...

Retail Data Needs Better Security in a Contextual World

Do you remember the first time you made an online purchase? Me neither. I’ve made so many online purchases over the years, and I’ve probably made more in the past 18 months than in the past 5 years combined...