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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...
Optimizing For Performance, One Hire at a Time: Part 3
Having previously decided we need to make a new hire onto our team, part 1 of this series examined how to meet the needs of our team going into the future, instead of just adding surface visible technical skills...
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...
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...
An Experiment With Reverse Mentoring at Akamai India: Women Mentoring Senior Leaders on Gender Inclusion!
Rumi said, "Clean out your ears, don't listen for what you already know." And that's exactly what leaders at Akamai India did during the pilot event of Flip, a reverse mentoring event, held earlier this month. High potential women from...
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...
Why moats and castles belong in the past
We are all familiar with the enterprise security approach of treating an organization like a castle, and protecting it with a moat. Moats have been used for perimeter defense since ancient Egypt. While the moat and castle enterprise security approach has worked well in the past it is starting to...
Operationalizing Offensive AI: An Open Framework for Modern Security
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Decentralized Threat: Stealthy P2P Cryptominer Targeting Ollama Endpoints
The Akamai SIRT uncovered a custom P2P Trojan masquerading as system activity. Learn how to detect and mitigate this stealthy Go-based cryptominer...
CVE-2026-42945: Mitigating a Critical Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in NGINX
Discover CVE-2026-42945 NGINX Rift, a critical heap buffer overflow vulnerability. Learn about the affected versions and critical patch updates...
The Differences Between API Gateway and WAAP — and Why You Need Both
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Detecting and Mitigating Apache Tomcat CVE-2025-24813
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How to Use ITSM, SIEM, and SOAR to Remediate API Attacks
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Comparing the Benefits of Microsegmentation vs. VLANs
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The Sustainability Team Is Listening. Here’s What We Heard.
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What Is API Detection and Response?
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The Importance of Allyship for Women in Tech
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Akamai Named an Overall Leader in Fraud Reduction Intelligence Platforms
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The Art of Concealment: A New Magecart Campaign That’s Abusing 404 Pages
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Increase Performance, Decrease Costs with a Flexible Distributed Cloud
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Best Practices for Testing Akamai App & API Protector
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You Are a Woman in Tech: Own Your Voice
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As Phishing Websites Flourish, Brands Seek Protection from Impersonation
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Akamai Integrates DNS Security with Microsoft's Azure Firewall to Protect Cloud Workloads
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Phishing: The Oldest and Wisest Attack Vector
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Deliver Faster Downloads for Better Browsing, Part 4 of 5
Web browsers read HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code as well as video, images, and SVG files, then use that data to build and render a web page...
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...
In-App Browsers and Akamai Client-Side Protection & Compliance
Learn how Akamai's Client-Side Protection & Compliance tracks In-App browser injections to make sure sensitive information is kept safe and private...
India Becomes Top Global Target for API Attacks
An increased adoption of APIs also increases the risk of API attacks. Read about how India has become a top global target for API attacks in 2022...
Protecting the Digital Experience
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Building the Future — Akamai’s Outlook on the Linode Acquisition
Akamai announced our intent to acquire Linode. The acquisition is intended to create the world’s most distributed compute platform. This new cloud to edge platform will make it easier for developers and businesses to build, run, and secure applications, especially given the complexities of Web3...
1&1 Versatel Expands Its Business Portfolio in Germany with Akamai
1&1 Versatel is a B2B provider for fibre gigabit connections and network-related services in Germany. The company is part of the United Internet AG and as such a sister company of 1&1 AG. 1&1 Versatel operates one of the biggest and most powerful fibre networks in Germany - providing its own...
Cybersecurity?s Rapid Metamorphosis from Tech Problem to Business Enabler
In March 2020, when businesses enforced a work-from-home policy because of the pandemic, many of us thought the move would last a few weeks or so. How could we have possibly known that the sudden move to remote working would create the now-normal hybrid workforce? Businesses of all types and size...
Defeating the Pirates
In Akamai's paper, "Inside the World of Video Pirates," we discovered why digital intellectual property theft aka "piracy" is possibly the most misunderstood form of cybercrime facing the TV, sports, and film industries...
Why Our Furniture Will Face the TV for Years to Come
Before the invention of the television, the focal point of any room was the fireplace. In fact, the word "focus" derives from the Latin word for "hearth." However, the invention of the television, coupled with the arrival of central heating, means that, from the mid-20th century onwards, most of ...
How to Be Resilient to Data Theft
Page Integrity Manager is now PCI compliant -- a strong starting point to harden your web applications...
Serverless at the Edge: Enabling Magical Unicorns
Before we dive straight into the magical unicorn from heaven that is serverless computing embedded within the CDN edge a direct customer quote that I want on a team T-shirt soon, let's first level-set on some basic concepts of computing. In the context of web experiences, IoT device messaging, an...
The Interaction Between Identity Cloud and Akamai Edge Services
Akamai Identity Cloud is a purpose-built customer identity and access management CIAM platform specifically architected to meet the needs of application owners and API providers' consumer identity needs. As a cloud-based SaaS offering, all interactions with Identity Cloud occur over the public...
Ronald Graham and the Magic of Math
Late Monday night, I received an email sharing the sad news that Ronald Graham had died that evening at the age of 84. For those who never had the pleasure of knowing Ron, he was a brilliant mathematician with a great sense of humor, a circus-level juggler and magician, a mentor of countless...
This Isn't the Phishing Your First Boss Knew
Phishing has been around for nearly as long as email has, and the perception that phishing tactics have not evolved persists. Many people believe we are still in the era of the easy-to-spot "Nigerian prince" emails, shown below. Underneath that, we see a highly creative, yet not any more...
Attack of the Killer ROBOT
On Dec 12th, 2017, researchers Hanno Böck, Juraj Somorovsky and Craig Young published a paper detailing an attack they called the Return Of Bleichenbacher's Oracle Threat ROBOT. This attack, as the name implies, is an extension of an attack published in 1998 that affects systems using certain...
Balance traffic intelligently by leveraging Application Layer (Layer 7) and DNS Layer (Layer 3) logic
Gaining new customers and retaining existing ones is at the core of every business. In the past few years, two major trends have emerged in this drive towards customer centricity To meet the ever increasing customer demands, most modern digital applications leverage microservice architecture to...