Protecting Small and Medium-Sized Businesses from Cyberthreats

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Expert Cybersecurity Awareness: Test Your Attack Knowledge

Hey, security experts: Can you recognize an attack from the code alone? Test your attack knowledge skills with this quick quiz...

Akamai Develops Real-Time Detections for DNS Exfiltration

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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...

Beyond CWV: 11 More Performance Metrics to Monitor, Part 3 of 5

Learn the differences between synthetic tests and real user monitoring, and discover 11 web performance metrics beyond the Core Web Vitals — and how to use them...

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...

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

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Fighting Video Piracy Is Strengthened by Collaboration

Here’s what I know: My personal email has been “pwned” or stolen at least 18 times. Here’s what I don’t know: if any of the times I have been unable to log in to one of my OTT subscription services was due to my kids sharing our credentials or because of an account takeover — that kill chain that...

Making the Internet Resilient: Part One

Think how many websites you visit or videos you stream. Do you check your bank account or transfer money, download apps, play music, share updates on social media, or use the internet for any of the thousands of other digital experiences it enables every day?...

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...

Streaming Numbers Jump for European Football Tournament Delivered by Akamai

The video streaming traffic that Akamai delivered for more than 30 rights-holding customers during the July 11 Italy-England football soccer final as part of the delayed-to-2021European soccer tournament peaked at 34.9 Tbps on the Akamai edge platform. The traffic peak during the final match was...

Akamai, CISA, and CIS Join Forces to Improve SLTT Cyber Defenses

Cybercriminals continue to target U.S. state, local, tribal, and territorial SLTT government organizations. In 2019, there were more than 100 ransomware attacks -- including an attack on Baltimore's IT systems that locked out thousands of computers and disrupted nearly every city service. This...

Edge DNS: Zone Apex Mapping & DNSSEC

Along with its DDoS resilience and impressive global footprint, Akamai Edge DNS offers zone administrators additional technical flexibility and implementation options to improve performance and simplify DNS operations. One example is zone apex mapping ZAM, a feature that enables top level hostnam...

Zero Trust and the Case for Application Microsegmentation

Data breaches have become incessant. Recently, a very popular airline sevices company revealed a suspected breach involving customer credit card information. Even more recently, a hospital in Indiana reported that a virus had infected some of its systems that caused the hospital to be placed on...

What You Need To Know - Summer 2018 State of the Internet / Security: Web Attack Report

It's that time of year - the Summer 2018 State of the Internet / Security: Web Attack report is now live. This new naming schema is just one of the many changes you'll notice if you're a returning reader of quarterly report, and there are more changes coming as we work to bring you insights and...

New State of Online Retail Performance Report Available

It's springtime, and the only people with the holidays on their minds are in the retail business. This holiday season was a record-breaking one, with combined revenue for Black Friday and Cyber Monday alone exceeding $11.5 billion. To build on that momentum, smart retailers will take a closer loo...

How smart is my smart TV?

Some weeks ago, my friend asked me the headlining question while we were having a random argument about electronics. I found it to be an interesting one, particularly because it underlines the current mindset towards security of electronic devices communicable over computer networks. We are...

Smart DNS Resolution for a Better Safer Internet

By Arlen Frew Top-level Domain TLD operators are focused on making the Internet a better and safer place, enabling name registrations, and maintaining the DNS namespace in support of their stakeholders. The entire Internet ecosystem, including TLDs, is always looking for ways to improve security...

The Botconf Experience

By Yohai Einav, Amir Asiaee, Ali Fakiri-Tabrizi and Alexey Sarychev Originally Posted on January 4, 2018 Earlier this month we took our show on the road, presenting some of our team's work at the Botconf conference in beautiful Montpellier, France. We could talk here for hours about the food, win...

Media Acceleration Enhances Online Experiences for OTT Video, Games and Software Downloads

Online audiences are growing and so are their expectations for the quality of experience. You know exactly what I mean if you've ever been frustrated with the rate at which a game is downloading or if your video stalls at the most inopportune time. Online streaming is no longer novel, it's the...

API Security for Government Services: Protecting Citizen-Facing Applications

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

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The Web Scraping Problem, Part 3: Protecting Against Botnets

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Akamai EdgeWorkers for SaaS: Balancing Customization and Security

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Support Telecom Providers on the Journey from Telco to Techco

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Virtually Patch Vulnerabilities with Microsegmentation and Akamai Hunt

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Akamai Defends Against the OWASP Top 10 API Security Risks

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Akamai Cloud: The World’s Most Distributed Cloud Platform

Introducing Akamai Connected Cloud, the massively distributed edge and cloud platform for cloud computing, security, and content delivery...

Expanding API Security Awareness at API World

API security should be a primary concern for organizations. Learn about the three principles of APIs to help protect against attacks...

Multicloud, Multi-CDNs (Content Delivery Networks) Architecture – A Deceptive Future of the Internet

The last two years stood witness to multiple internet outages that caused massive disruptions across the globe. One prevalent theory is that multicloud, multi-CDNs content delivery networks are the inevitable future of the internet. This article conducts a litmus test on this theory and tries 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...

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...

Coming Together to Tackle Phishing — For the Greater Good

Every day, Akamai’s Threat Research team tracks and mitigates phishing attack campaigns to help keep our customers — and their reputations — protected. Recently, they tracked an orchestrated attack campaign comprising more than 9,000 domains and subdomains, mainly targeting victims located in...

HTTP/2 Request Smuggling

HTTP Request Smuggling also known as an HTTP Desync Attack has experienced a resurgence in security research recently, thanks in large part to the outstanding work by security researcher James Kettle. His 2019 Blackhat presentation on HTTP Desync attacks exposed vulnerabilities with different...

Digital Transformation Usain Bolt-Style: Health Care's Sprint to Modernization

Instead of picking up their phone to schedule a doctor's visit, ring an insurance provider, or call the pharmacy, a patient's first step to getting care is now often the use of an app on their smartphone. There are new ways to order prescriptions, conduct appointments, seek care, and share health...

Akamai Focused on "What's Next" Following New Traffic Milestone

Akamai hit a new milestone last week when web traffic delivered across our edge network peaked at 200 terabits per second Tbps. To be blunt - that's a whole lot of data traveling the world in a very short amount of time. We believe we can make a good case that it's more than the entire reported...

Is MFA a Security Illusion?

A recent Akamai Security blog post, Massive Campaign Targeting UK Banks Bypassing 2FA, written by my colleague Or Katz, is a great insight into how attackers used very simple techniques to bypass two-factor 2FA authentication security to obtain access to U.K. consumers' bank accounts. The attack...

Client-Side Protection is Key to Web Application Security

The Open Web Application Security Project OWASP Foundation defines script attacks as a "type of injection in which malicious scripts are injected into otherwise benign and trusted websites."1 From the perspective of the user, malicious code is coming from trusted websites. Recently popularized by...

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...

Akamai Identified as a Leader Among Zero Trust Providers by Independent Research Firm

We are pleased to share that Akamai has been identified as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust eXtended Ecosystem Platform Providers, Q3 2020. In the report, Forrester evaluated how each vendor's portfolio maps and delivers on specific components of the Zero Trust eXtended ZTX framework...

Akamai Mitigates Sophisticated 1.44 Tbps and 385 Mpps DDoS Attack

always surprises me how easily a community can adapt to a new situation or reality. What was once considered an outlier or even an unimaginable situation can quickly become our new normal. For those of us focused on protecting enterprises from threats, that also couldn't be more accurate...

DNS as Code

Infrastructure as Code IaC and Continuous Delivery methods have become increasingly popular amongst development and operations teams as a means of maintaining high-performing websites. Code repositories, build servers, and configuration management systems are now industry standards, as these tool...

What's the Best Approach to SSO and Consumer Session Management for Your Businesses?

If you want to see an argument break out among identity professionals, mention single sign-on SSO and consumer session management. As fast as this technology's evolved is as fast as it's become one of the most contentiously debated topics in the field. As a senior customer identity and access...

Zero Trust Access: Santa Claus Wasn't the Only One Working Christmas Eve

The days from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day are filled with celebrations. Many companies shut down and encourage their employees to take vacations. However, a sample of data comparing an average work week around the holiday, shows the idea of "downtime" isn't exactly accurate. In fact, many use...

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...

Fortnite Sets Game Traffic Record on Akamai

Akamai Technologies set a new record on Thursday, July 12th, 2018, for the peak level of traffic delivered for a single video game on its network, at more than 37 Tbps peak across all platforms. This massive influx of traffic was driven by the launch of Epic Games' cultural phenomenon: Fortnite,...

Girls Who Code Week 2: Let the Coding Begin!!

The Akamai-sponsored Girls Who Code program is well under way! Week 2 featured lots of activity in the Girls Who Code classroom at Akamai's Cambridge, MA headquarters. The girls learned to use Scratch, a visual programming language that was developed at MIT to help people learn to code. They used...

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...