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Expanding API Security Awareness at API World
API security should be a primary concern for organizations. Learn about the three principles of APIs to help protect against attacks...
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...
Your Best Defense Against Ransomware: Akamai + Guardicore
For decades, Akamai has been focused on solving tough problems for our customers. We started by addressing the challenges of the “World Wide Wait,” and quickly started to leverage our edge network’s scale, proximity to users, and expert operations staff to mitigate security threats for our...
Zero Trust: The Protection Model for the Post-Pandemic World
One year and a half following the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we're seeing most companies either maintaining their remote work policies or slowly moving to a hybrid model. In fact, an estimated 36.2 million Americans will be working remotely by 2025, which is nearly double pre-pandemic levels...
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...
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 ...
Timers, Metrics, and Dimensions: What's New for mPulse in 2020
The October 2020 release marks the culmination of a large number of updates to mPulse, Akamai's real user monitoring RUM solution:...
What's the Best Approach to SSO and Consumer Session Management for Your Businesses?
If you want to see an argument break out among identity professionals, mention single sign-on SSO and consumer session management. As fast as this technology's evolved is as fast as it's become one of the most contentiously debated topics in the field. As a senior customer identity and access...
Business Continuity and Security in an Uncertain Global Environment
The need for companies to quickly enable remote access to business-critical applications was highlighted in a recent Akamai blog -- Enabling Business Continuity in an Uncertain Global Environment. However, despite the current environment, what is already evident is that once businesses have...
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...
Volunteering with Girls Who Code
Volunteering with Girls Who Code has been one of the most enriching and edifying experiences of my time here at Akamai. I was chosen to serve as a mentor to one of the high school students, gave the NOCC tour...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Akamai Recognized as a Strong Performer in 2026 Gartner Peer Insights™ for Secure Enterprise Browsers
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The New Face of Financial Fraud: AI-Powered Brand Abuse
AI-powered brand abuse is hitting banks hard. Read about the threats, the business impact, and how Akamai Brand Guardian helps financial institutions fight back...
Keep Your Tech FLAME Alive: Trailblazer Katrina Cole
Meet Katrina Cole, an Information Security Consultant who entered tech at age 40. Read her advice for women in tech and her proactive approach to security...
Advancing Collective Defense with Project Glasswing
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CVE-2026-34354: Guardicore Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Read the technical details of a security vulnerability CVE-2026-34354 in Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent for Windows — and get clear guidance on mitigation...
CVE-2025-29635: Mirai Campaign Targets D-Link Devices
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Observing the Anatomy of Peak Traffic
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The Rise of the LLM AI Scrapers: What It Means for Bot Management
Explore the rise of LLM AI scrapers and learn how to adapt to growing bot traffic with data-backed insights from our research...
Authoring Custom Spin Templates
Learn how to create, distribute, and install custom templates for Spin CLI to boost developer productivity and meet regulatory compliance...
Critical Linux RCE Vulnerability in CUPS — What We Know and How to Prepare
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Akamai Wins Best Sales Leadership Development Program from Brandon Hall
Learn how Akamai's award-winning sales leadership development program transforms sales managers into impactful coaches, driving growth and performance...
Continuing the Sustainability Conversation
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Why Fuzzing Isn’t Enough to Test Your APIs for Security Issues
Learn about API testing best practices and find out why fuzzing has limitations for enterprises that need API security...
Protect and Elevate Your DNS with Akamai Shield NS53
Learn how Akamai Shield NS53 can protect your capital investment into on-premises DNS infrastructure and significantly improve performance...
Stop Scrapers and Scalpers with Akamai Content Protector
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The Web Scraping Problem, Part 2: Use Cases that Require Scraping
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Get EdgeWorkers Error Reports with mPulse
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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...
Future Growth Relies on Channel Partners
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Slipping Through the Security Gaps: The Rise of Application and API 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...
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...
A Closer Look at Ransomware Attack Trends in APJ
Read about the surge of ransomware as a service RaaS cyberattack trends in APJ, and the infamous and prolific Conti group’s role in them...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Digital Transformation Usain Bolt-Style: Health Care's Sprint to Modernization
Instead of picking up their phone to schedule a doctor's visit, ring an insurance provider, or call the pharmacy, a patient's first step to getting care is now often the use of an app on their smartphone. There are new ways to order prescriptions, conduct appointments, seek care, and share health...
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...