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Beyond Vulnerabilities: Why API Abuse Is a Critical Challenge
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A Definitive Guide to the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Filter
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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...
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,...
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...
My First Job—Being Inspired and Having an Impact
Written by Bridget Meuse, Product Marketing Specialist - Corporate Sustainability I've recently hit my four-month mark here at Akamai and it's been a whirlwind, to say the least. Despite having had two previous summer internships at Akamai, stepping into my...
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...
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...
Impact of Meltdown and Spectre on Akamai
Overview On Wednesday, January 3rd, researchers from Google Project Zero, Cyberus Technology, Graz University of Technology, and other organizations released details about a pair of related vulnerabilities, dubbed Meltdown and Spectre. These vulnerabilities appear to affect all modern processors...
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...
Solve Multi-CDN Entitlement Drift with Edge Functions Without Losing Viewers
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Agentic Disconnect: The Latency Crisis Facing Modern AI Architecture
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Celebrating a Year of Innovation with Akamai Brand Protector
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Why Payers Are Pivotal to API Security Across the Healthcare Ecosystem
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API Security in a Zero Trust World
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Unmasking a Sophisticated Phishing Campaign That Targets Hotel Guests
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Introducing Easy API Security Deployment
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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...
Entering Through the Gift Shop: Attacks on Commerce
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Akamai Brand Protector Solves the Growing Problem of Impersonation Attacks
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Feature Spotlight: Kubernetes Enforcement
Akamai’s new enforcement capabilities for K8s environments provides segmentation for applications and blocks lateral movement to, from, and inside K8s clusters...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Akamai Launches New Digital Badge Program for Channel Partners
Partner enablement framework provides capabilities to manage customer lifecycle from prospecting through implementation for Akamai products. We are introducing digital badges for successful completion of partner enablement certifications. This is an opportunity for Akamai Partner professionals to...
API Discovery and Profiling -- Visibility to Protection
APIs have become a dominant mechanism in the modern web, allowing organizations to create powerful web and mobile experiences, while exposing back-end data and logic to create new and innovative offerings...
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...
Addressing the Video Quality and Performance Measurement Gap with Quality of Performance (QoP) Metrics
Ubiquity of Digital Video Means Meeting Viewers' Quality Expectations Digital video viewership is on an aggressive growth course. Globally, consumers will spend 84 minutes a day watching online video in 2020, up 25% from 2018i, and digital video viewership will increase from 35% in 2019 to more...
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...
Addressing the Availability of the ACAEngine
In my experience as a Solutions Engineer, I've seen many companies strive for 100% uptime of enterprise applications. However, this is a goal that cannot happen by itself. Careful thought must be put into the underlying architecture that delivers these critical enterprise applications. Recently,...
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...