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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...
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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Improve Performance with HTTP/2 Stream Prioritization
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How to Defend Against Account Opening Abuse
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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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The Dark Frost Enigma: An Unexpectedly Prevalent Botnet Author Profile
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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...
Preparing for the Multicloud Future
Take advantage of multicloud flexibility to reduce risk, match spend to your current needs, and increase the pace of innovation...
Attack Superhighway: A Deep Dive on Malicious DNS Traffic
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Akamai Mitigates Record DDoS Attack in Asia-Pacific (900 Gbps)
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Can't Wait to Shut You Down — Remote DoS Using Wininit.exe
Akamai researchers explore a new vulnerability that can be exploited to lead to denial-of-service attacks against Windows machines...
Introducing Malware Protection for Scanning File Uploads
With Malware Protection, you can scan once at the edge and prevent malware from draining your time and budget...
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...
REvil Resurgence? Or a Copycat?
Has REvil returned? In this new post by Akamai's SIRT, see a DDoS incident by a threat actor claiming to be REvil...
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...
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...
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with Ohana
National Hispanic American Heritage Month September 15 to October 15 is a time to recognize the achievements and contributions of trailblazing Hispanic Americans whose legacies have inspired the world. Akamai stands with our American colleagues whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the...
Securing the Enterprise Network for the Office Anywhere
During the pandemic, it was reassuring to see businesses demonstrating resilience and enabling remote working for their employees — in some cases, practically overnight. As businesses slowly reopen their doors, it is clear that many things have changed, key amongst them the increasing risks to th...
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...
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...
How to Perform a Zero Trust AWS Assessment with Infection Monkey and ScoutSuite
Take action on issues highlighted in the report to ensure your AWS cloud defenses are protected in a data breach, minimizing impact and data loss...
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...
Announcing Akamai's 2030 Sustainability Goals
There are 4.66 billion yes, with a B internet users. Rough math will tell us that's three in every five people around the world -- talk about lessening the six degrees. I see head nods and shoulder shrugs. 4.66 billion people?...
Emerging Edge Computing Use Cases
The first rule of edge compute thought leadership is: don't overuse the term edge. Over the course of my blog series on the topic, I have defined the edge, explained edge computing, and discussed the economics of edge computing...
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...
Finding the Best Servers to Answer Queries -- Edge DNS and Anycast
TL;DR IP Anycast is a network addressing and routing methodology that allows IP addresses to be announced from multiple points on the internet With the proper implementation, Anycast can reduce DNS RTTs and offer innate DDoS protection Akamai's authoritative name service, Edge DNS, combines globa...
Internalship Program
In today's workplace, the landscape is a fast-paced, competitive environment, and today's employees are frequently on the hunt for growth opportunities...
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,...
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:...
Measuring and Improving Core Web Vitals
Google recently announced a proposed update to its search ranking algorithm: the Page Experience Update. This change, which launches in 2021, includes more performance signals in the ranking algorithm. A subtle but important feature of the update is that AMP will no longer be a requirement for...
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...
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...
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...