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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...
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...
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...
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...
Discover and Announce: A Serverless Location Application Built on Akamai IoT Edge Connect
Learn about Discover and Announce, a 100% serverless application built on Akamai IoT Edge Connect, which can run entirely on the Akamai edge...
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...
Cyber Monday Web Traffic Up Over 2020
Online retail traffic that Akamai delivered during Cyber Monday was up 5% globally compared to Cyber Monday 2020 and 31% compared to average Monday traffic...
Kinsing evolves, adds Windows to attack list
The campaign was first seen by the Akamai SIRT on February 16, 2021, and appears to be targeting both Windows and Linux systems. The botnet caught our interest because it has shown to be highly active across a diverse set of geographical regions, including the Americas, Europe, and Asia...
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...
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...
Act Against Geopiracy with Enhanced Proxy Detection
According to the description, the service is a virtual private network VPN desktop application and proxy browser extension that helps viewers mask their physical location, circumvent censorship, and restore access to blocked content...
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...
Women's Foundation of Boston Empowerment Webinar for Girls and Young Women
Akamai is thrilled to have been the lead sponsor for the recent Women's Foundation of Boston Empowerment Webinar for Girls and Young Women: Girl Decoded: An Intimate Conversation with Author Rana el Kaliouby about finding your voice, pursuing education and excelling as a woman in STEM...
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...
Scanning Akamai’s Edge Servers for Vulnerabilities, Correctly
Continuous monitoring of the Akamai Edge Platform for security vulnerabilities is an integral part of all engineering efforts at Akamai. In addition to our internal vulnerability management program, we engage with third-party assessors to periodically perform external scans of our systems since...
Perception Matters: Making RUM More Real
Traditional nav timing metrics have given us a lot in the way of understanding how our pages and apps are performing, but as users' expectations rise and page complexity grows, you need to really understand how users are perceiving the performance of your website beyond traditional page load...
Algorithms, Alerts, and Akamai Threat Intelligence
Let me start by posing a question: If in one week security solution A produces 120 alerts and security solution B produces 45 alerts, which solution is providing you with more effective protection? The answer is: It depends. On the face of it, solution A appears to be more effective because it's...
Recursive DNS - The Achilles Heel Of Advanced Threats
We all know what happens whenever anyone or anything tries to access a resource on the Internet. It all starts with a DNS request that translates a URL www.akamai.com into an IP address 104.97.77.24: Now if we dive a little deeper into the DNS request flow we can see the requester make a request ...
What You Need to Know About Caching Video Series
In this "unofficial" video series, Akamai Solutions Engineers Tedd Smith and CJ Arnesen explain the basics of caching: what it is, why it's important, and how to get the most out of it. A great introduction to Akamai, caching, and content delivery network CDN basics, this series supplements Akama...
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...
Secure Healthcare Networks with Zero Trust Device Segmentation
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Akamai Helps Authorities Disrupt the World’s Largest IoT Botnets
The U.S. DOJ recently disrupted several large and powerful DDoS botnets and shut down their related DDoS-for-hire services with Akamai’s help...
Observing the Anatomy of Peak Traffic
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Inside the Fix: AI-Powered Root Cause Analysis of CVE-2025-60719
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From Discovery to Testing: Akamai and Snyk Deliver Seamless API Security
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CVE-2025-32094: HTTP Request Smuggling Via OPTIONS + Obsolete Line Folding
In March 2025, Akamai received a bug bounty report identifying an HTTP Request Smuggling vulnerability that was quickly resolved for all customers...
Consistent Security Everywhere: Akamai Makes Leading WAF Technology CDN-Agnostic
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The Hidden Costs and Ethical Pitfalls of Content Scraping
Read about the significant hidden costs and ethical pitfalls of content scraping — and learn how to protect your website...
API Cyberattacks: A Growing Threat for Organizations in Latin America
Learn about the growing threat of API cyberattacks and their effect on industries across Latin America...
AkaNAT: How Akamai Uses Machine Learning to Detect Shared IPs
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Elevate Your Web Monitoring Experience with Managed Web Monitoring
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Will VPN Security Vulnerabilities Accelerate ZTNA Adoption?
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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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Akamai Named an Overall Leader in Fraud Reduction Intelligence Platforms
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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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Understanding International Revenue Share Fraud
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What’s New for Developers: April 2023
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What Is Cloud Architecture?
What is cloud architecture? And what types of clouds are there? Cloud architecture defines how all the components that enable cloud computing come together...