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The Crypto Revolution Reaches Fever Pitch for Today’s Phishing Scammers
Akamai threat researchers tracked continuous cyberattack and crypto-phishing campaigns that took advantage of cryptocurrency-based scams...
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 + Guardicore: End-to-End Zero Trust
Ransomware attacks increased by over 150% in 2020. As criminals find new ways to attack networks and systems, protect work-from-home employees with Akamai...
Dogged Persistence—The Name of the Game for One DDoS Attacker
With DDoS, we typically observe a moderate degree of attacker persistence. DDoS attacks are relatively easy to launch from a number of online booter services, and the availability of cryptocurrencies for payment has made it easy to remain anonymous. Attackers can try their hand at DDoS for little...
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...
Akamai Platform Update: New Security Enhancements That Intelligently Automate Application and API Security, Mitigate Online Fraud, and Reduce Burden on Security Professionals
Today is Day 2 of Akamai's Platform Update. Yesterday, we talked about the acceleration of modern app development and how we're empowering users to shift more compute and data to the edge...
Why FIDO2 is the Answer to Better Security
A groundbreaking increase in security incidents is affecting governments around the world. In light of this, the United States issued a formal order to implement a robust set of security measures designed to improve the security of federal systems. In his most recent executive order, President...
Akamai Foundation: Our Chance to Give Back
The Akamai Foundation was set up in 2018 to improve the impact and focus of our long-term philanthropic activities. Importantly, we wanted to support the next generation of technology innovators; promoting the pursuit of excellence in STEM education amongst school children. Our work had an...
What happens when your vulnerability is weaponized for botnet proliferation
This post will focus on the weaponization of a few of the exploits only, as Sarit and Ofir documented everything else...
Congratulations to 2020 Akamai Partners of the Year
Last year proved to be a year like no other. We faced unforeseen challenges, including adjusting to a new way of working, collaborating, and conducting business. It is an honor for me to announce the Akamai Partners of the Year for 2020 who went above and beyond in this tumultuous year. These...
The Interaction Between Identity Cloud and Akamai Edge Services
Akamai Identity Cloud is a purpose-built customer identity and access management CIAM platform specifically architected to meet the needs of application owners and API providers' consumer identity needs. As a cloud-based SaaS offering, all interactions with Identity Cloud occur over the public...
Ronald Graham and the Magic of Math
Late Monday night, I received an email sharing the sad news that Ronald Graham had died that evening at the age of 84. For those who never had the pleasure of knowing Ron, he was a brilliant mathematician with a great sense of humor, a circus-level juggler and magician, a mentor of countless...
Why You Need Cloud-Based Security for Agile, Innovative and Lean IT
Digital transformation isn't just a buzzworthy trend or a finite phase for today's businesses. Rolling adaptation to an ever-changing environment and continuous digital evolution has become the new normal for enterprises -- the key to success in this agile, demanding, and hyper-connected age. To...
Managing Traffic From the Outset: How GTM Can Make Your Deployments Easier
Global Traffic Management, or GTM, is a DNS-based load balancing service that offers application owners a level of flexibility and insight that is unmatched by traditional on-prem solutions...
From the Beginning: Internships With Akamai
At Akamai, our internships are both unique and meaningful. What do we mean by this? Well, we believe an internship should add real, significant value to an intern's skill-set. So, not only do they get to learn on the job...
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...
Giving Back through Danny Lewin Community Care Days
Akamai was fortunate to have Danny Lewin as a co-founder and role model for our business, our culture, and our sense of adventure and accomplishment. It was Danny who helped to instill the Big Idea that we would change the...
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...
Good News from Singapore
The IETF had its 100th meeting the week of November 13. It was held in Singapore. I want to report on two pieces of good news. The first is that it seems like TLS 1.3 is ready to advance through the IETF process. As I wrote last month, the problem was that outdated or buggy network devices betwee...
Regain reliability and control over the cloud with Application Load Balancer
It's no secret that businesses are rapidly adopting Cloud Service Providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform for cost efficiency, agility, scalability and global distribution to serve their customers more easily. A recent IDG survey indicates that 70% of...
Update: Vulnerability found in Apache Struts
Akamai has created two new WAF rules in response to new information about the Apache Struts2 vulnerability. The first rule, the most recent version of KRS Rule 3000014, is a standard part of the Kona Ruleset and protects against the many common attacks leveraging this vulnerability. This rule is...
In China and Japan, Malicious Botnets Surge Amidst Holiday Ecommerce Traffic
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The CMMC Phase II Suspension: What It Means for Your Compliance and Zero Trust Strategy
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Zero-Day Dominance: How Akamai Defends Before the Industry Discloses
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AI Reconnaissance: The Missing Layer in Chatbot Security
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Microsegmentation: Your Digital First Responder to LLM Threats
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Post-Quantum Cryptography Is Coming, but Your DNS Might Not Be Ready
Learn why crypto-agility depends not just on adopting the right standards, but on maintaining a clear, unified view of your DNS environment before the migration begins...
How Microsegmentation Helps Governments Meet CJIS Compliance
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Scale Faster: A Practical Guide to Building with Akamai Block Storage
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Apps, APIs, and DDoS 2026: The Industrialization of Cyberattack Campaigns
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Akamai and Google: Advancing Data-Driven Marketing with Google Tag Gateway for Advertisers
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Avoid Evasive Scraping with Stronger Content Protection
Learn about the enhancements to Akamai Content Protector that stop evasive scraping across web and mobile while minimizing user friction and false positives...
Valkey: The Future of Open Source In-Memory Data Stores
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CVE-2025-54142: HTTP Request Smuggling via OPTIONS + Body
Learn how Akamai InfoSec mitigated CVE-2025-54142 — an HTTP request smuggling vulnerability arising from OPTIONS requests with a body...
AI in Cloud Computing: How AI Is Revolutionizing the Landscape
Discover how AI in cloud computing is transforming industries. Learn about the differences between cloud AI and edge AI — their benefits, use cases, and solutions...
Introducing Akamai Cloud Pulse: Observability for Your Cloud Infrastructure – Now in Open Beta
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An Intentionally Engineered Platform for a More Responsible Internet
Learn how Akamai delivers performance, security, and scale on a platform that's also built for sustainability...
What Are the Benefits of a Microservices Architecture?
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Bot Reporting: 4 Key Differences to Consider
Get a detailed look at Akamai’s bot reporting and the important advantages it offers to organizations that are looking to improve their bot defenses...
Taking Steps to Prepare for Quantum Advantage
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Edge Computing Versus Cloud Computing: Key Similarities and Differences
Explore the use cases, similarities, and differences of edge computing and cloud computing...
Using Our Environmental Management System to Create a Sustainable Future
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The 8 Most Common Causes of Data Breaches
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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...
Welcome to 2024: A Year in Review with Akamai Hunt
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XZ Utils Backdoor — Everything You Need to Know, and What You Can Do
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Distributed Cloud and Edge Computing: A Cheat Sheet for IT Leaders
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Akamai Customer Trust Built on Partnership and Best User Experience
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