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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...
The Agentic Security Crisis: Why You Need to Act Now
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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...
Akamai Named an Overall Leader for API Security by KuppingerCole
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API Security Under Federal Scrutiny: A Wake-Up Call for CIOs
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DigiEver Fix That IoT Thing!
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Deep Analysis of Hospitality Phishing Campaign Shows Global Threat
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A QUIC Shutdown: DoS Vulnerability in Windows Servers Running SMB over QUIC
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DDoS Attacks Surge Against Vulnerable Assets: Are You Prepared?
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Ransomware on the Move: Evolving Exploitation Techniques and the Active Pursuit of Zero-Days
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Normalizing Women in Tech with Intentionality
Vice President Simone Stewart kicks off our Akamai “Women In Tech” blog series and discusses how intentionality can cultivate a more inclusive environment...
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 Mitigates Hop-by-Hop Header Abuse Leading to Request Smuggling
Security researchers identified and disclosed a new technique of hop-by-hop header attacks, leading to request smuggling, which Akamai successfully mitigated...
6 Key Insights from Akamai India Leadership Industry Summits
What does the future look like for consumer-to-internet and OTT media services in India? Here are six thought-provoking insights from CXOs...
Platform Update: Build the Future on Akamai
Today, technology is infused into nearly everything we do. The data behind personalized recommendations, connected devices, and wearables has changed how we engage with the world around us — whether we’re driving to a new destination, purchasing from a new retailer, or monitoring our health...
Meet Mike Elissen: Founder of Our Akamai Developer Champions Program
Our longest-standing Developer Advocate, Mike Elissen, noticed an opportunity to make Akamai’s developer relations even stronger. He co-created Developer Champions, an advocacy program that helps Akamai employees better meet customer needs...
Taking Action This Earth Month
By: Akamai Earth Month Guest Blog by Kenda Carlson, Senior Manager, WeSpire There's a fascinating human phenomenon often studied in the behavioral science field called the intention-action gap. It's when you have every intention of doing something, but it just doesn't happen. It's when you say yo...
Preparing for Holiday Traffic During COVID-19
We are headed into an unprecedented holiday season as COVID-19 continues to impact the world. For many, this means changing traditions and celebrating without family nearby. For Akamai, it means preparing to support our customers in a holiday commerce season of opportunities and challenges like...
Smart DNS for the New Network Edge
People depend on the internet for just about everything: interacting, learning, transacting, traveling, working, and more. At the same time, the wireless evolution to 4G -- and soon 5G and Wi-Fi everywhere -- has given birth to an era of connected cars, smart sensors, and a multitude of other...
The Changing Face of Loyalty Programs Amid and Post-COVID-19
COVID-19 has undoubtedly prompted the Hospitality and Travel industry into a new era of customer loyalty. Currently, "shelter in place" or similar nonessential travel bans are instituted by many countries and companies across the world. Once travel restrictions are lifted, there will be a...
Out of the Grace Period: Trust and Communication Rises in a Post-CCPA World
Six months ago, the California Consumer Privacy Act CCPA was put into effect, granting California residents increased rights over how their personal data is gathered and shared by the companies they interact with. Leading up to its launch, organizations expressed concern over whether they were...
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...
Business Continuity and Security in an Uncertain Global Environment
The need for companies to quickly enable remote access to business-critical applications was highlighted in a recent Akamai blog -- Enabling Business Continuity in an Uncertain Global Environment. However, despite the current environment, what is already evident is that once businesses have...
Akamai Edge Security - Intelligent protection coming to a city near you!
Having knowledge and visibility is just as important as products and technology when it comes to detecting and combating the latest attacks on the Internet. At Akamai, we protect customers from many of the largest and most sophisticated attacks in the world, and we are launching a series of Akama...
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...
TLS 1.3 support is coming this spring
While March brings NCAA Madness, this year it also brought TLS 1.3, which will be coming to all Akamai customers soon! Let's give some background. TLS 1.3 is latest revision of the TLS protocol. It is also known by its older name, SSL. It is the protocol used for all secure HTTP connections on th...
The Pitfalls of Guest Wi-Fi
Do you remember the days before mobile broadband was commonplace and connection speeds on 2G wireless were barely usable? How often did you seek out a specific location such as a coffee shop or a hotel that offered a free or more likely purchasable Wi-Fi connection? Times have changed. Now, we...
Gone Phishing For The Holidays
Written by Or Katz and Amiram Cohen Overview: While our team, Akamai's Enterprise Threat Protector Security Research Team, monitored internet traffic throughout the 2017 holiday season, we spotted a wide-spread phishing campaign targeting users through an advertising tactic. During the six week...
Do you believe in Serendipity?
In December 2016, after a month of mountain bike racing and touring in Nepal, I commenced the Executive Program in General Management at MIT. The first term was at Sloan School of Management in Cambridge and for the first time in my life, I finally could relate to studying. In fact, I was even...
Agentic Disconnect: The Latency Crisis Facing Modern AI Architecture
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How Akamai Defended an Indian Bank Against Record-Breaking DDoS Attacks
Learn how Akamai successfully neutralized one of the largest DDoS attacks ever recorded in the Indian banking sector before a single customer was impacted...
Understand the Shift Toward AI-Driven Interactions: A Guide to MCP
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Combat Rising Account Abuse: Akamai and Ping Identity Partner Up
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Celebrating a Year of Innovation with Akamai Brand Protector
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Beyond Vulnerabilities: Why API Abuse Is a Critical Challenge
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3 Steps to Elevate Your Cybersecurity in a Post-Pandemic World
As cybercrime grows more sophisticated in the remote work era, you can take three essential steps to fortify your organization against evolving threats...
Akamai World Tour 2023: Let’s Connect on Security and Cloud Innovation
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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...
Entering Through the Gift Shop: Attacks on Commerce
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What Proposed New Changes in the OWASP API Security Top 10 Mean for You
The new OWASP Top 10 for API Security release candidate is a fantastic step in an API-specific direction, emphasizing the distinct nature of API threats...
Improving Popularity Rankings for Better Threat Intelligence, Part 1
AkaRank can overcome biases in current domain popularity lists and help ensure the best threat coverage and user experience...
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...
Zero Trust and the Fallacy of Secure Networks
Talking about secure networks is like talking about safe pools. A pool is just a body of water, and if it has enough water to swim in, then it has more than enough water to drown in. A pool is inherently unsafe. We, therefore, take care in how we use a pool: We don’t swim alone; we don’t run arou...
TCP Middlebox Reflection: Coming to a DDoS Near You
Over the past week, Akamai Security Researchers have detected and analyzed a series of TCP reflection attacks, peaking at 11 Gbps at 1.5 Mpps, that were leveled against Akamai customers. The attack, amplified with a technique called TCP Middlebox Reflection, abuses vulnerable firewalls and conten...
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...
Phishing: Holiday Season Attacks on the Rise
Overview Phishing continues to be a major attack vector, and it's surprising just how many security incidents and breaches start with an employee clicking on a link in a carefully crafted phishing email and sometimes doing the same with a not-so-well crafted phishing email -- see this example...
Holiday Season Phishing Attacks on the Rise
Phishing continues to be a major attack vector, and it's surprising just how many security incidents and breaches start with an employee clicking on a link in a carefully crafted phishing email and sometimes doing the same with a not-so-well crafted phishing email -- see this example...
The World Has Moved Online. Has Your Business Adapted?
What would happen if everything we do in the world were to suddenly go online? We got the answer to that question early this year, when the global coronavirus pandemic forced almost everyone and everything to move online: commerce, meetings with colleagues and customers, classroom learning,...
Becoming a Comms and Analyst Relations Leader, Rita Aspen - Head, Communications & Analyst Relations, APJ
My parents were first-generation immigrants from India. They worked hard, made Singapore their home and took all and any challenges head on. They have always lived by the simple philosophy, 'to be the change'. It's a philosophy that I try to live too, and in many ways it's what attracted me to...