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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...
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...
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...
Strengthening Network Access Security with Multi-Factor Authentication
As technology continues to develop, more and more applications become not just convenient, but necessary. It was less than a decade ago that it was inconceivable we would 'need' to carry a consumer device to access the internet in our pockets. Today, it is essential. The same is true with the...
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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CVE-2026-31979: The Symlink Trap — Root Privilege Escalation in Himmelblau
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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...
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...
Why SaaS Companies Are Adopting Distributed Cloud Computing
A study commissioned by Akamai included asking more than 250 global SaaS developers about their perceptions of distributed cloud. Their answers may surprise you...
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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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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Unmasking a Sophisticated Phishing Campaign That Targets Hotel Guests
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Introducing Easy API Security Deployment
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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...
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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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...
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...
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...
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...
10 Years Since World IPv6 Launch
A decade past World IPv6 Launch and we are well through the migration away from legacy IPv4, but still have a long way to go...
Meet Mike Schiessl: Senior Technical Marketing Engineer
Meet Mike Schiessl to learn more about his career path, how companies can support a DevOps to DevSecOps transition, and the future of security and business...
4 Steps to Prepare for Open Enrollment: Ready for Takeoff?
Preparing for open enrollment is a key part of running efficient healthcare organizations, but it's difficult to know where to start. Learn which steps to take...
Akamai + Guardicore: End-to-End Zero Trust
Ransomware attacks increased by over 150% in 2020. As criminals find new ways to attack networks and systems, protect work-from-home employees with Akamai...
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...
The Threat That Never Went Away Is Back (with a Vengeance)
What is your recollection of May 2017? Emmanuel Macron won the French election. The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus gave its final performance after a 146-year run. The U.S. FCC voted to overturn net neutrality rules. And the National Health Service in the United Kingdom was crippled by...
Now Launching: SOTI?Phishing For Finance
It's that time again -- the launch of the second State of the Internet / Security report of 2021. While Akamai has access to some of the largest security data sets in the world, our viewpoint is limited to the traffic that traverses our networks and is seen by our tools...
Corporate Office and Kitchen Table: Securing the Future of Work, Part 2
The workforce is remote, the data center is the cloud, the corporate network is the internet, and the security stack is at the edge. In Part 1, I focused on the future of work, the most obvious feature being that the workforce is even more distributed, even more remote. Employees expect to be abl...
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...
Largest Ever Recorded Packet Per Second-Based DDoS Attack Mitigated by Akamai
On June 21, 2020, Akamai mitigated the largest packet per second PPS distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack ever recorded on the Akamai platform. The attack generated 809 million packets per second Mpps, targeting a large European bank. We believe this is a new industry record for PPS-focused...
Largest Ever Recorded Packet Per Second-Based DDoS Attack Mitigated by Akamai
On June 21, 2020, Akamai mitigated the largest packet per second PPS distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack ever recorded on the Akamai platform. The attack generated 809 million packets per second Mpps, targeting a large European bank...
CCPA and Global Consumer Privacy Protection
Back in 2018 with the implementation of GDPR, global retailers with business in the EU faced great pressure to be compliant. This year, the California Consumer Privacy Act CCPA, another tough and impactful data privacy regulation from the U.S., will come into play. Global retailers need to...
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...
Zero Trust Security Architectures
This introduction is Part 1 of a 5 part blog series. Jump to Part 2: Network Micro-Segmentation Jump to Part 3: Software Defined Perimeter Jump to Part 4: Identity Aware Proxy Jump to Part 5: Akamai's Approach to Zero Trust Introduction Most enterprises today operate hundreds of applications that...
On Becoming a Contributor to the HTTP Archive
The HTTP Archive is an open source project that tracks how the web is built. Twice a month it crawls 1.3 million web pages on desktop and emulated mobile devices, and collects technical information about each of the web pages. That information is then aggregated and made available in curated...
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...
The Recipe for Web Performance Starts with the Right Ingredients: Page Construction Metrics
You can't manage what you can't measure. As devices grow in capacity and innovations allow us to do more with web apps, the complexity of our pages has grown, too. It becomes a balancing act to increase functionality while maintaining a performant and responsive site. Just like a great recipe, to...
Operationalizing Offensive AI: An Open Framework for Modern Security
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The Differences Between API Gateway and WAAP — and Why You Need Both
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