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6 Ways Akamai Innovates to Strengthen Their Leadership in Application Security
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Unmasking a Sophisticated Phishing Campaign That Targets Hotel Guests
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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...
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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5 Key Focus Areas for Cloud Computing Strategies
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Akamai Brand Protector Solves the Growing Problem of Impersonation Attacks
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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...
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...
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 Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Web Application Firewalls, Q3 2022
Forrester’s 2022 evaluation of web application firewalls ranks Akamai as a Leader with the top score among all evaluated vendors in the attack detection criterion...
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...
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...
What Should I Watch Tonight? I Have Tens of Thousands of On-Demand Media Options
When I was a kid in the late 1970s, the ABC Television Network had the top three most watched shows in the United States, and I was one of those viewers. For example, on Tuesday nights, prime time? started for me at 8 PM with Happy Days and was over at 9:30 PM after Laverne & Shirley and Three?s...
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,...
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...
Guardicore at RSA: AI-Powered Segmentation, Cloud Native Security
This week we’re announcing two new capabilities in our Centra Security Platform that further deliver on that mission: Support for cloud-native resources and AI-powered segmentation...
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...
Akamai Welcomes Girls Who Code
Akamai employees in Cambridge have started to see some new faces around the office for the summer - 20+ high school juniors to be specific! For the fourth consecutive year, Akamai is partnering with Girls Who Code to host a seven-week long summer immersion program dedicated to closing the gender...
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,...
What's New with Prolexic
There have been two constants in DDoS over the last 10+ years: an ever-changing threat landscape and continuous growth in attack sizes. Akamai's Prolexic platform has stood the test of time, but we are continuing to invest in ways to make our customers' experience more valuable and relevant. I'm...
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...
Akamaizing Your Dev & QA Environments
Over the last few months, I've been talking to many development and test teams who deliver their sites and applications through the Akamai Intelligent Platform. One common challenge they face is how to test their Akamai delivery configurations on the Internet against their private development and...
Telegraph delivers better experience with Image Manager
The Telegraph Media Group TMG is a multi-media news publisher and its titles include The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph and The Telegraph website. Today, its site serves more than 380 million pages to over 84 million unique visitors every month across the globe, featuring on average about...
DDoS of Past, Present and Future
The pervasiveness of technology has meant automation of tasks, allowing better productivity, with more time to do more. However, the dark side of technology would be that enterprises and individuals alike are vulnerable to cybercrimes, compromise of identities, loss of data and subject to malicio...
Solve Multi-CDN Entitlement Drift with Edge Functions Without Losing Viewers
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Kubernetes IngressNightmare: Wake Up and Fight Back with Microsegmentation
Discover how to defend Kubernetes from Ingress vulnerabilities with microsegmentation and Zero Trust security from Akamai. Stay protected — inside and out...
Why Payers Are Pivotal to API Security Across the Healthcare Ecosystem
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The Web Scraping Problem, Part 2: Use Cases that Require Scraping
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What Is API Detection and Response?
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Akamai’s Responsibility to Our Enterprise Customers
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Akamai Account Protector’s New Protection Against Account Opening Abuse
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Akamai EdgeWorkers and Uniform: Personalize Web Pages at Scale Without Flicker
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API Security in a Zero Trust World
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Introducing Easy API Security Deployment
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Safeguard Medical Devices: New H-ISAC Guidance on Cusp of FDA Rule
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Adopting Comprehensive API Security Falls Behind Need
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Inclusion in Tech: Discover Diverse Career Paths for Women in Tech
Hema Patel discusses inclusive career paths, cancel culture in the workplace, and defying the traditional education limitations for women in tech...
Future Growth Relies on Channel Partners
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IDC MarketScape Names Akamai a Contender in Worldwide Public Cloud IaaS
Akamai’s inclusion as a Contender in the "IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service Vendor Assessment" demonstrates the strength of our cloud computing services...
Akamai Recognized as a 2023 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers' Choice for Cloud WAAP
Customers rate Akamai as a 2023 Customers' Choice for Cloud WAAP for the fourth consecutive year on Gartner® Peer Insights.™...
Building an Effective Bot Management Strategy
Effectively managing bot traffic requires a combination of strong detection and response strategies. Here, we explore Akamai’s methods for implementing both...
User-Agent Reduction
Chrome is rolling out changes to the browser’s User-Agent string that will affect how web servers, applications, and CDNs like Akamai gather information about the current user agent such as the browser’s version, device, and platform information...