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The Akamai Foundation: Making a Global Impact
In 2021, the impact of the Akamai Foundation’s philanthropic activities continued to expand beyond science, technology, engineering, and mathematics STEM education, deepening our commitment to digital equity and inclusion around the globe and to making a positive impact in the communities we serv...
Combat Piracy with Akamai Managed Content Protection
Learn how Akamai?s Managed Content Protection offering helps combat and mitigate the growing effects of online piracy for Akamai customers...
Quantifying Log4Shell: Vulnerability on a Massive Scale
The Log4Shell vulnerability is here to stay. There is a lot of speculation about the scope and true impact of the vulnerability: While many have labeled it “severe,” information is limited on how widespread the risk is. In order to shed some light on the issue, Akamai Threat Labs is utilizing its...
Announcing Property Manager Extensions for the Integrated Development Environment
We’re proud to announce the 1.0 release of the Property Manager extension to Visual Studio Code and Eclipse. With the new Property Manager extension, you can edit and validate Property Manager API PAPI JSON rule trees right from your integrated development environment IDE. It allows you to make a...
Wedia, Digital Asset Management Software Provider, Delivers Seamless Digital Experiences with Help from Akamai
Wedia makes it possible for some of the world’s biggest companies to effectively manage, customize, and deliver their marketing assets. Akamai is delighted that this fantastic brand has chosen us to deliver a rich and engaging web experience for its customers while also ensuring the highest level...
Finding My Way as an Akamai Intern
It’s an exciting time to be starting a career in digital – but even more so when it’s at a company like Akamai. An organization driven by a commitment to developing talent within the industry, Akamai is an intellectually rigorous, demanding, and rewarding environment to be in at any level. But fo...
RTL Nederland Makes Weather Forecasting Fast, Reliable and Sustainable with Help From Akamai
Media giant RTL Nederland offers a weather app that gives users the ability to get a comprehensive overview of the weather in their location at the click of a button. Akamai is delighted that this exciting media brand has chosen us to deliver a rich and engaging web experience for its viewers whi...
Developers Push Coding to the Edge in Akamai
The first-ever Akamai EdgeWorkers Coding Challenge gave participants the opportunity to harness the power and potential of serverless computing using the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform. Winning developer teams built functions using Akamai EdgeWorkers and EdgeKV products that ranged from DNS...
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...
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...
Tokyo Streaming Traffic Runs Rings Around Rio
With 35 medals at stake, the last full day of competition during the games in Tokyo generated the highest video streaming traffic for 30-plus customers on the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform. Medal matches for baseball, basketball, and soccer, along with several track and field finals, drove...
Putting Purpose First as an Akamai Co-Op
As I began my CSR Co-op position this year, I wanted to see up-close how a corporate foundation works. What I've found is that the work the Akamai Foundation does around the world is inspiring! Whether it's partnering with STEM educators, responding to the COVID-19 crisis, planning employee...
Akamai's Commitment to Reliability
For more than 20 years, Akamai has worked very hard to earn the trust and confidence of our customers and partners by developing services that can be relied upon to be available and secure at all times...
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...
World-Class OTT Streaming from MwareTV with Akamai
Since the onset of the pandemic, home entertainment has never been more important. Millions of users across the globe have turned to over-the-top OTT streaming and live TV to bring much-needed diversion and exciting content into their lives...
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...
Sensor Architecture Can Help Keep Us Up and Running: Part 2
Previously, I introduced the field of sensor systems architecture and posed a real world example scenario of the unnecessary resource costs and hazards that can happen when the deployment of sensors isn't carefully thought out...
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...
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:...
When Hackers Take Advantage of Your Trusted Vendors
As JavaScript-based client-side attacks continue to evolve, we see how attackers are getting more sophisticated and employing more advanced techniques. Unfortunately, it has been proven many times that any website partner can be exploited to carry out an attack. In the past month, we witnessed on...
When Hackers Take Advantage of Your Trusted Vendors
As JavaScript-based client-side attacks continue to evolve, we see how attackers are getting more sophisticated and employing more advanced techniques. Unfortunately, it has been proven many times that any website partner can be exploited to carry out an attack. In the past month, we witnessed on...
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) – Risks and Solutions
Leverage the benefits of VDI without opening yourself to security risk. Guardicore provides user access management and microsegmentation for Citrix...
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...
XMR Cryptomining Targeting x86/i686 Systems
I have been playing close attention to Internet of Things IoT malware targeting systems with Telnet enabled, while also collecting samples targeting systems with SSH enabled on port 22. I've collected over 650 samples landing in my honeypot within the...
Pykspa v2 DGA updated to become selective
Additional research and information provided by Asaf Nadler Recent changes to the Pykspa v2 domain generation algorithm DGA have made it more selective. Akamai researchers have tracked these changes and believe that part of the reason for selective domain generation...
Catch Me If You Can: Evasive and Defensive Techniques in Phishing
Phishing is a multifaceted type of attack, aimed at collecting usernames and passwords, personal information, or sometimes both. Yet, these attacks only work so long as the phishing kit itself remains hidden. Phishing is a numbers game and time is...
How to Make Your Demo Environment Easy, Accessible...AND Secure
A common misconception I've heard in the field is that a tradeoff exists between easy access for applications and network security. For example, companies want to allow their sales team, partners, and prospects access into demo environments. With traditional access solutions, there is a question ...
The 'Audience of You' at NAB
It's all about the "audience of you" as Akamai gears up for next week's 2017 NAB Show in Las Vegas. With that phrase, we're talking about helping to deliver the best possible experiences for each and every OTT video viewer. It's not an easy thing to do, but we're demonstrating a host of new...
17 Essential Skills for Performance Engineers
Most people in the performance engineering field agree that our skillset is derived from an intersection of disciplines that include testing, optimization, and systems engineering...
Planning for the End of 2016: A Leap Second and the End-of-Support for SHA-1 TLS Certificates
A leap second and the final end of browser support for SHA-1 TLS certificates will happen and can potentially break software systems and applications...
From Recon to Free Flights: Precision Prompt Attacks on AI Agents
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When AI Models Outgrow Storage
Discover how Akamai Object Storage absorbs high-frequency machine data, mitigates egress costs, and scales production AI model outputs...
Putting CLIMATE into Practice: Building an Inventory Management Plan
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AI Survey: 50% of Organizations Struggle to Maintain Latency at Scale
The Akamai State of AI Inference report captures real data from the field that describes how AI inference is being built and scaled in production today...
Winning the Ransomware Race: The New Segmentation Partner Playbook
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AI Pulse: How Big Tech Impacts AI Bot 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...
Why AI Demands a New Security Playbook
Understand the new AI security threats and how Akamai can help you develop a risk mitigation strategy...
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...
Continuing the Sustainability Conversation
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Guidance on the Critical OpenSSH Vulnerability regreSSHion
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Examining the Polyfill Attack from Akamai's Point of View
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Akamai’s Perspective on April’s Patch Tuesday 2024
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How to Dramatically Simplify PCI DSS Compliance
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Shield NS53 Protects Your Origin DNS Infrastructure from NXDOMAIN Attacks
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