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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 ...
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...
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...
AI Pulse: How Big Tech Impacts AI Bot Traffic
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Learning from the LockBit Takedown
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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...
Guidance on the Critical OpenSSH Vulnerability regreSSHion
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The 8 Most Common Causes of Data Breaches
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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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The Akamai Foundation Continues to Give Back and Amplify Impact
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Akamai Security Solutions — Everywhere Your Business Meets the World
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API Security: Best Practices for API Activity Data Acquisition
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Safeguarding Patient Health Data Means Balancing Access and Security
Increased access to health data can leave providers and insurers vulnerable to data breaches, so it’s vital to invest in cybersecurity that can protect networks...
Mute the Sound: Chaining Vulnerabilities to Achieve RCE on Outlook: Pt 1
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Improve Performance with HTTP/2 Stream Prioritization
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Taking Action on Climate Change at Climate Week NYC 2023
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Prioritizing the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain for Healthcare Resiliency
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Akamai’s Perspective on September’s Patch Tuesday 2023
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Media IT Leaders Say Distributed Cloud Will Boost Performance, Lower Cost
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The Power of Proximity: Local DDoS Scrubbing Centers Enhance Security
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Proxyjacking: The Latest Cybercriminal Side Hustle
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Akamai Named a Leader in IDC MarketScape for Network Edge Security as a Service
Akamai was named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for delivering cloud security without performance trade-offs via our mature application security portfolio...
Embracing Change with Akamai Connected Cloud
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Akamai Announces Advanced Bot Detections, Global Recognition of Entities
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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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What Challenges Will 2023 Bring for Cyber?
In 2023, the tech industry must address workforce diversity, manage cyber risks and regulations, and understand how innovation can challenge cyber resiliency...
You’ve Crossed the Line — Disturbing a Host’s Rest
Akamai researchers explore two new vulnerabilities that can be exploited to lead to denial-of-service attacks against container and session services...
Enemy at the Gates: Analyzing Attacks on Financial Services
Financial services is an often attacked vertical, but to what extent and how? This blog post will cover several security issues affecting this industry...
Tackle Your Cloud Challenges, One Scenario at a Time
Forrester’s quick start cards cover 18 common issues with cloud migrations and operations, and suggest actions to mitigate each one...
Effectively Preparing for the OpenSSL 3.x Vulnerability
With all the noise about the OpenSSL vulnerability, see this blog about how to prepare for mitigation when the patch is released...
Better A/B Testing with EdgeWorkers + EdgeKV
Learn how to use Akamai EdgeWorkers and EdgeKV to create easy-to-control A/B tests...
Securing Applications in a Multicloud World
Widespread adoption of multicloud architecture presents challenges in securing applications. Learn about the benefits of deploying security controls on the edge...
What’s New for Developers: September 2022
Learn about Akamai’s voxel art contest, the updates to EdgeWorkers and EdgeKV demo sites, and how the beta Test Center CLI allows you to test the behavior of configuration changes on your own in this month’s blog...
Akamai’s Perspective on September’s Patch Tuesday
Every Patch Tuesday stirs up the community. See Akamai's September insights and recommendations on what to focus on, and patch, patch, patch!...
Cyberterrorists Target Record Number of Victims with DDoS Attacks in Q2
In Q2, cyberterrorists targeted a record number of customer locations groupings of assets based on cloud presence or physical data center with DDoS attacks...
Deploying Akamai MFA at Scale: 6 Lessons Learned
Planning a multi-factor authentication MFA rollout? Take a look at the six lessons we learned when we deployed Akamai MFA...
Akamai?s Perspective on August Patch Tuesday
Want the rundown of what to focus on with Patch Tuesday in one place? Check out this blog, and patch, patch, patch!...
How Akamai Works with Internet Organizations
Learn about a few of the internet organizations, who are developing standards and best practices, that Akamai works with to help foster innovation...
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...
Detecting Malicious JavaScript with Secure Internet Access Enterprise Secure Web Gateway
JavaScript is everywhere, and when malicious can be hugely detrimental. In this blog, learn about the types of malicious JavaScript and how Akamai's SWG product helps keep you more secure from it...
An Attack Surface Workout for Web Application and API Attacks
WAF Attacks have been increasing dramatically over the last 9 months. These attacks cut across industries, geos and customers. Growth has largely been driven by Local File Inclusion lfi attacks, which took the lead from SQL Injection attacks in early 2021 before just taking off in the fall...
Akamai Is a Leader in Bot Management — What That Means for You
Obviously we’re proud to be a leader. Bot management is a contact sport, where being great is a requirement if you want to stop the persistent adversarial bots. So it’s rewarding to be recognized for the work we’re doing keeping the bad bots away from our customers’ digital businesses...
Why Linode+Akamai Is Transformational for How Developers Use the Cloud
Just three weeks have gone by since Akamai officially welcomed Linode into our fold, and I’m encouraged by the excitement that so many have expressed about the combination of our two companies since we announced the acquisition in February. In conversations with us, industry analysts use the word...
Six Key Takeaways from the OMB Memo
In May 2021, following a number of high-profile security incidents, U.S. President Biden issued an executive order that set out a high-level agenda to modernize and improve the government’s cyber resilience. This January, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget OMB issued a memo to the heads of...
Geopolitical Tensions Increase Risk of DDoS Attacks Among Other Damaging Intrusions
With Ukraine moving beyond the brink of war with an official invasion by Russia underway, organizations both near and afar must brace for potential repercussions in the form of crippling cyberattacks and intrusions. Already Ukraine has been bombarded with DDoS assaults aimed at taking down...
FritzFrog: P2P Botnet Hops Back on the Scene
FritzFrog is a peer-to-peer botnet, which means its command and control server is not limited to a single, centralized machine, but rather can be done from every machine in its distributed network. In other words, every host running the malware process becomes part of the network, and is capable ...