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Akamai Integrates DNS Security with Microsoft's Azure Firewall to Protect Cloud Workloads
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What’s New for Developers: April 2023
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Healthcare Organizations Must Balance Cybersecurity with Other Priorities
Porter Research finds that today’s healthcare organizations must balance investments in data protection with resources they need to provide high-quality care...
3 Ransomware Questions Every Security Leader Should Be Able to Answer
Read about how organizations need microsegmentation to identify and remediate ransomware attacks, and the ransomware questions they need to answer...
Elevate Streaming Media with EdgeWorkers and Macrometa Stream Workers
Elevate players’ gaming experiences with Akamai EdgeWorkers and Macrometa Stream Workers...
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...
Meet Josh Johnson: Senior Enterprise Architect
A love of technology and coding brought Josh Johnson to Akamai. Learn what he thinks a developer-first approach means for the Akamai developer community...
Meet Anthony Hogg: Senior Enterprise Architect and Lifelong Learner
At Akamai and across the tech industry at large, best practices and tools are constantly evolving. To keep up with these changes, a passion for learning is key, especially among those who support and enable others. One Senior Enterprise Architect on Akamai’s Advanced Solutions team, Anthony Hogg,...
In China and Japan, Malicious Botnets Surge Amidst Holiday Ecommerce Traffic
Akamai data shows that in the days leading up to and including Lunar New Year, the activity of malicious bots increased 15% in China over the previous month. While a similar surge occurs during the high-traffic seen at the end-of-year holidays in EMEA and the U.S. — China and Japan present a...
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...
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...
Healthcare Modernization? More Like Building the Plane While Flying It
Anyone running a business is likely familiar with the phrase “building the plane as you’re flying it.” And through the craziness of the past 19 months, many of us lived the phrase, becoming pilots and engineers of our new realities overnight...
Digging Deeper – An In-Depth Analysis of a Fast Flux Network
Fast Flux is a DNS technique used by botnets to hide various types of malicious activities, such as phishing, web proxying, malware delivery, and malware communication, behind an ever-changing network of compromised hosts acting as proxies. The Fast Flux network concept was first introduced in...
Akamai App & API Protector: Maximize Security Through Simplicity
Building incredible digital experiences often involves leveraging serverless edge computing, microservices-based architectures, IaaS environments, client-side functionality, and APIs. These modern development practices, while designed to produce highly personalized, fast, and always-on user...
Akamai Named a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for Web Application and API Protection
This week, Gartner released its new 2021 Magic Quadrant for Web Application and API Protection WAAP report, which replaces the Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls WAF report, and Akamai has been named a Leader. Akamai was named a Leader in the four previous WAF Magic Quadrants...
Holiday Readiness, Part Two: What you Should be Thinking About Three Months Out?Capacity Planning
Welcome back to the Holiday Readiness blog series. We hope part one has kept you busy over the past month as you continue to improve your security posture. If you haven?t finished all of the security checklist items, don?t worry ? there is still time before Black Friday and Cyber Monday...
SOTI Research: Gaming In A Pandemic
Welcome to the second edition of SOTI Research. In this edition, we look at the attacks and trends in the gaming industry during 2020. SOTI Research is a condensed, shorter version of our traditional State of the Internet / Security reports, offering focused data points and contextual awareness...
How Does Ransomware Actually Spread?
We all know the damage ransomware can do - but how does ransomware actually spread? Our blog shows you how - and how it can be stopped...
Finding the Cracks in the Wall - How Modern Scams Bypass MFA
In my previous blog, I discussed the important role multi-factor authentication MFA plays in further securing access to enterprise and consumer services. We also established the fact that although MFA increases authentication security and decreases the risk of account takeover, MFA can, and is,...
Another Golang Crypto Miner On the Loose
There are many crypto mining malware variants infecting systems on the internet. On Friday, March 4, 2021, I noticed an interesting hit in my honeypot logs. The binary it captured stood out, as it was rather large at 4MB. I immediately thought it would be a crypto miner written in the Go language...
Safeguard Identity Data at the Source
Leverage Identity Cloud's built-in tooling to safeguard your customers' data from unnecessary exposure When your customers create an account on your website or application, they are entrusting their valuable information with you in order to establish a relationship. To maintain that relationship,...
How to Be Resilient to Data Theft
Page Integrity Manager is now PCI compliant -- a strong starting point to harden your web applications...
What's New in Edge Delivery
Welcome to day two of the Akamai Platform Update! Today, we're focusing on Akamai's edge delivery products as well as other complimentary products that help drive great digital experiences. The last several months have been nothing short of unprecedented as lockdowns, quarantines, and other...
Death by a Thousand Cuts: Nuisance DDoS Attacks in the Games Industry
At Akamai, we talk a lot about DDoS attacks. It's because we're pretty good at handling them. We've stopped many of the world's biggest attacks. And, while less common, they get a lot of attention. But we can also stop the world's smallest attacks. And we stop lots of them. It's these smaller...
Rethinking Defensive Strategy at the Edge, Part 3: Strategies for Protective Action
Our three-part blog series, Re-thinking Defensive Strategy at the Edge, has been focusing on outlining a new defensive edge strategy for today's enterprise. We began with a discussion of data and indicators. Most recently, our second post focused on using risk signals and correlating them for...
Every Application Should Be Behind a WAF
It's no secret that security threats continue to expand in volume and variety, making headlines on virtually a daily basis. From nation-state attacks, corporate espionage, and data exfiltration campaigns to all-in-one and sneaker bot campaigns, businesses across the globe find themselves dealing...
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...
The Only Constant Is Change -- Rethinking Secure Access for a New Workforce
It seems like a long time ago now when IT teams had their annual strategy meeting, where topics related to network modernization with SASE or SD-WANs, remote access, threat prevention, and cloud adoption were likely discussed. COVID-19, however, has caused a lot of these initiatives to take a...
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...
Phishing Attacks Against Facebook / Google via Google Translate
When it comes to phishing, criminals put a lot of effort into making their attacks look legitimate, while putting pressure on their victims to take action. In today's post, we're going to examine a recent phishing attempt against me personally...
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...
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...
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 PhotoMiner Campaign
In this report we will share our research on the PhotoMiner’s timelines, infection strategies, C&C servers and provide tools to help detect the malware...
What Changes When You Move Your Logic to the Smarter, More Connected Edge?
Discover how moving logic like mass redirects, data transformation, and bot triage to Akamai Functions lowers latency, reduces origin load, and cuts costs...
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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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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Edge Computing and 5G: Emerging Technology Shaping the Future of IT
Learn how and why enterprise businesses are using edge computing and 5G to deliver better digital experiences for their customers...
Akamai Launches Early Hints to Further Boost User Experience and SEO
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Akamai Doubles Down on API Security
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Using Our Environmental Management System to Create a Sustainable Future
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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...