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Meet Prachi Shah, Senior Service Architect
Senior Service Architect Prachi Shah discusses how customer feedback plays a crucial role in product development at Akamai...
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...
Akamai: Protecting Life Online with Secure Internet Access
Easily deliver value-added security services to families and businesses with Akamai Secure Internet Access services for ISPs and MNOs...
Reaching the Convergence of Security and Productivity
It’s all too common that IT security tools and practices come at the cost of productivity. Even physical security has this trade-off. There would be no rush to arrive at the airport an hour early if it weren’t for the extensive security measures that flying entails. As a result of this trade-off,...
Protecting the Digital Experience
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Picture-Perfect Gaming Experience for WorldMatch
WorldMatch, a games and content provider for global markets, collaborates with some of the biggest international casinos. Headquartered in Italy and in operation since 2003, the gaming provider boasts a portfolio of more than 200 games, 160 slot machines with 70 game engines, 30 table games, and...
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...
What’s New for Developers: January 2022
Hello, and welcome to our very first Developer Community update of 2022. In this new monthly series, we’ll share highlights of what is happening across the Akamai Developer Community. Since this is the first blog we’re posting, we will also catch up on news from October 2021 through today...
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...
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 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...
Targeted Cache Control
Content delivery networks CDNs have been around and have evolved over a long time in internet years. They all speak HTTP and you can safely rely on them to work with just about anything else that speaks HTTP...
What A Funny App I Got Here!
When you hear the word "malware", the first thing that might come to your mind is a PC or laptop. You think about some weird advertising pop-ups or unrecognized processes running in the background...
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...
How Enigmo Moved Logic from Client to Origin to Edge
Enigmo owns BUYMA, a Japanese fashion C2C marketplace that helps people buy and sell high-quality goods from overseas on www.buyma.com...
Akamai Recognized as 2021 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Web Application Firewalls
Akamai has been named a Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Web Application Firewalls for the second time...
Inspiring the Next Generation with DigiGirlz
DigiGirlz is an initiative organized by Microsoft to engage girls in technological education and careers. The initiative, which launched in 2000, consists of two main programs: DigiGirlz Day and High Tech Camp. This program has been a cornerstone of Microsoft's community engagement for more than ...
Akamai + Fingerbank: How an open source community can transform security
Isn't it amazing how seemingly simple decisions can have far-reaching effects? When the Inverse team in Montreal took over PacketFence in 2008, it was an open source OS solution...
Can Edge Computing Exist Without the Edge? Part 2: Edge Computing
In part 1 of this series, I drew the architectural distinction between a centralized cloud platform and a distributed edge network. This is an important foundation upon which to explain the difference between cloud computing and edge computing. The two serve very different and complementary...
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 ...
Akamai Identified as a Leader Among Zero Trust Providers by Independent Research Firm
We are pleased to share that Akamai has been identified as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust eXtended Ecosystem Platform Providers, Q3 2020. In the report, Forrester evaluated how each vendor's portfolio maps and delivers on specific components of the Zero Trust eXtended ZTX framework...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Identifying Agentic Automation with Behavioral Telemetry
Learn how Akamai uses Masked Autoencoder Transformer models to detect sparse behavioral telemetry from autonomous AI browser agents, such as Comet...
Secure Healthcare Networks with Zero Trust Device Segmentation
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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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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...
DDoS Attack Trends in 2024 Signify That Sophistication Overshadows Size
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How to Use ITSM, SIEM, and SOAR to Remediate API Attacks
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Healthcare Needs To Be Laser-Focused on API Security and Its Blind Spots
API-powered tools can enhance patient access to healthcare services, but these tools also introduce risk. Learn how to protect your organization...
Elevate Your Web Monitoring Experience with Managed Web Monitoring
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The Do’s and Don’ts of Modern API Security
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How to Defend Against Account Opening Abuse
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Get EdgeWorkers Error Reports with mPulse
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An Open Partnership Ecosystem for Building Solutions at the Edge
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Can't Be Contained: Finding a Command Injection Vulnerability in Kubernetes
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3 Ways to Use Zero Trust to Reduce Cybercrime Risk in Healthcare
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