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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...
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...
DDoS Chart Toppers—BPS, PPS and RPS Greatest Hits
New to the scene, monster-sized botnet Mēris is raising some eyebrows with giant requests per second rps attacks as shared by Cloudflare 17.2M rps, reported August 19, Yandex peaking at 21.8M rps on September 5, and KrebsOnSecurity 2M rps on September 9. Some commentary came in on Slashdot, The...
Akamai’s Flagship Customer Enablement Program, Akamai University, Wins Gold “Excellence in Learning” Award
The Technical Enablement and Education team, part of Akamai’s Global Services organization, has won a coveted Brandon Hall Group Gold award for “Best Customer Training Program,” for Akamai’s flagship customer training and enablement program, Akamai University...
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...
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...
Romanian Crypto Mining Infection
While examining my honeypot logs and digging through the newly downloaded binaries last week, I noticed a large compressed file. I figured it would be a crypto miner, typically a tar archive and gzip normally erroneously compressed. I moved the archive over to my test lab and started examining th...
Micro-Segmentation Security for the Hybrid Cloud with NVIDIA BlueField DPUs
Looking for software-defined yet hardware-accelerated data center infrastructure? And how NVIDIA Bluefield & Guardicore Centra can help...
Akamai Focused on What's Next Following New Traffic Milestone
Akamai hit a new milestone last week when web traffic delivered across our edge network peaked at 200 terabits per second Tbps...
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...
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...
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...
Games Drive Christmas Web Traffic
If you turned on a new game console and/or downloaded video games over the holidays, you certainly weren't alone. New data from Akamai shows that game-related traffic delivered across our network was more than double the Q4 average on December 25, and up nearly 50% on December 26. During the same...
How the Edge Improves Microservices
Microservice architecture has transformed the way we develop and operate our applications. Microservices aren't a technology or a programming language. Instead, they create a structure for designing and building applications based on the idea that the individual functions of a website should...
Phishing Summary 2020—Trends and Highlights
2020 was a challenging year for many of us, as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted life and introduced challenges in almost all elements of living. 2020 was also challenging from a cybersecurity point of view, as nearly the entire workforce moved...
Using LL-HLS with Byte-Range Addressing to Achieve Interoperability in Low Latency Streaming
HTTP Adaptive Segmented HAS streaming began to be used at scale from 2008 to 2012, with the advent of Move Networks, Microsoft Smooth Streaming, Apple HLS, Adobe HDS, and MPEG DASH. With the typical 10s segment durations of the day, livestream latencies measuring latency as the time from an actio...
WordPress Malware Setting Up SEO Shops
While recently looking over my honeypots, I discovered an infection where a malicious actor added a storefront on top of my existing WordPress installation. For background, this particular honeypot is a full instance of WordPress running on a Docker image...
Akamai Named Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for Fourth Consecutive Year
Gartner published its 2020 Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls WAFi and named Akamai a Leader for the fourth consecutive year. Gartner's high distinction is market recognition of our completeness of vision and ability to execute. This graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a...
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...
We Love Our Customers!
Here in the States, we often get our dry cleaning returned on hangers that say "We Love Our Customers." I once inadvertently brought one into the office back in the day, and our team displayed it prominently on a shelf, because it's true. Meeting with customers is the best part of my job here at...
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...
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...
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...
Edge DNS Secondary Implementation: Order or Operations for NS Zone & Registrar Records
Akamai's Edge DNS service provides cloud-based, authoritative domain services to thousands of organizations. Edge DNS is the most widely deployed cloud DNS service pushed to the edge of the Internet. Every organization must protect their domain name. Akamai originally built Fast DNS now Edge DNS ...
We Are Akamai: What Led Us Here
About Akamai and the blog We are the people at the heart of the internet. Every day, we work together to protect our customers, deliver ultimate experiences in the digital world, and connect people from far corners of the planet...
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 ...
How to Build Virtual Python Environment
In the DevOps world, getting a consistent development environment is crucial. In this post, I'll show you how to set up a virtual Python environment and install the correct libraries to achieve a consistent development environment...
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...
0.2 BTC Strikes Back, Now Attacking MySQL Databases
In this post we will describe how GGSN detected a wide ransomware attack targeting MySQL databases and provide recommendations on how to protect your database...
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...
Convenient Mobile Commerce is the Key to Success this Holiday Season
With the Black Friday, Cyber Monday holiday weekend upon us, retailers in the U.S. and abroad are preparing for another peak period for customer acquisition and commerce revenues. In 2016, the U.S. eCommerce market is the second largest globally and...
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...
Future-Proofing the Internet: Akamai Achieves End-to-End PQC
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From Recon to Free Flights: Precision Prompt Attacks on AI Agents
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CVE-2026-48282: Mitigating a Critical Vulnerability in Adobe ColdFusion
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Keep Your Tech FLAME Alive: Trailblazer Katrina Cole
Meet Katrina Cole, an Information Security Consultant who entered tech at age 40. Read her advice for women in tech and her proactive approach to security...
Highlights from the Akamai India Partner Summit 2026
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Advancing Collective Defense with Project Glasswing
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