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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Keep Your Tech Flame Alive: Akamai Trailblazer — Richa Dayal

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How Edge Computing Is Transforming Healthcare

There are myriad ways the healthcare and life sciences ecosystem benefits from edge computing. Read about the top five use cases for edge computing in healthcare...

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...

Women Can Make a Difference in the Field of Data Science

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Mute the Sound: Chaining Vulnerabilities to Achieve RCE on Outlook: Pt 1

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How Fraudsters Execute Account Opening Abuse

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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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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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Script Security: Achieving PCI DSS v4 Compliance Before the Deadline

The new Akamai Page Integrity Manager capabilities are purpose-built to address the latest PCI DSS v4.0 script requirements with one comprehensive tool...

Embracing Change with Akamai Connected Cloud

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Akamai’s Perspective on April’s Patch Tuesday 2023

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Improving the Gamer Experience with Low-Latency Microservices

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What’s New for Developers: February 2023

Read about the most recent updates to EdgeWorkers, two new Postman collections, and Terraform Provider v3.3.0 — and find out how to sign up for betas...

What’s New for Developers: 2022 Recap

Read the year-end review of developer highlights for 2022...

Akamai’s Perspective on January’s Patch Tuesday 2023

Every Patch Tuesday stirs up the community. See Akamai's insights and recommendations on what to focus on, and patch, patch, patch!...

Why Do I Need Zero Trust on My Endpoint If I Have EDR/XDR?

Do you need a Zero Trust solution if you have EDR/XDR installed? The short answer is yes — you need both...

Measuring User Experience with Real User Data

Use data from real users to improve the user experience UX of your site or app, and draw on real behavior and outcomes for effective UX decision-making...

Accidentally Crashing a Botnet

As part of our research into the cryptomining botnet kmsdbot, we rendered it useless...

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...

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...

The Internet Architecture Board Takes on Sustainability

Join Akamai and the Internet Architecture Board to make shift happen. Let's work together to make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. GreenWithAkamai...

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!...

How to Fight Video Piracy: Notes from a Real-Life Battle

Video streaming is increasing and so is video piracy. Learn more about these types of piracy cybercrimes, and how to be proactive in stopping them...

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...

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!...

Meet Tedd Smith: Solutions Engineer at Akamai

Meet Tedd Smith, solutions engineer at Akamai. He discusses today’s media-streaming landscape and how he crafts solutions for higher-quality user experiences...

Australia Experiences Massive Spike in WAF Multi-Vector, DDoS Attacks

With web applications under increased attacks, Akamai has analyzed data points for web application firewall WAF multi-vector and DDoS attacks between April 2021 and March 2022 to determine the severity of the situation in Australia...

Making the Edge Work for You

For many people, “building at the edge” may conjure fantastical images of nearly sci-fi–like computational power embedded on devices all around us, crunching massive volumes of data. We’re getting there. Today’s reality is that more workloads are moving to the edge to take advantage of the...

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...

What’s New for Developers: February 2022

A lot has happened since we published our January recap blog. Akamai launched a new documentation site on readme.io, we started a new season of Terraform Tapas, and we saw many amazing contributions from our Developer Champions...

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 ...

A Log4j Retrospective Part 2: Data Exfiltration and Remote Code Execution Exploits

Akamai CTO Charlie Gero shows how the Log4j threat surface could extend to unpatchable embedded and IoT devices...

Abuse and Fraud Prevention's Co-Created Future — Predictions for 2022 and Beyond

Explore some of the Akamai Abuse and Fraud Prevention team’s predictions for the future of abuse and fraud protection in 2022 and beyond...

Finding Purpose in Wellness

“Wellness” is something that many employers are racing to embrace. Good for both their organizations and their people, wellness is an investment in creating a happier and more engaged workforce, as well as reducing the effects of stress and burnout. It has the potential to increase productivity,...

The Power of Why: Rediscovering Akamai’s Purpose

As I took on the role of Chief Marketing Officer of Akamai earlier this year, I set out to inspire and challenge our teams to build an impactful global campaign that showcases not just what we do, but what we make possible. What quickly became clear is that to be authentic in talking about what w...

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...

Critical 9.9 Vulnerability in Hyper-V Allowed Attackers to Exploit Azure

Guardicore Labs, in collaboration with SafeBreach Labs, found a critical vulnerability in Hyper-V’s virtual network switch driver vmswitch.sys...

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...

Digital Transformation Usain Bolt-Style: Health Care's Sprint to Modernization

In the present age, patients now use smartphone apps to schedule doctor's visits, contact insurance companies, and get prescriptions instead of picking up the phone...

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...