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Enhance Customers’ Security Posture: Akamai SOCC Advanced Service
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Keep Your Tech Flame Alive: Akamai Trailblazer — Richa Dayal
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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...
Monolith Versus Microservices: Weigh the Pros and Cons of Both Configs
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How to Defend Against Account Opening Abuse
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Taking Action on Climate Change at Climate Week NYC 2023
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Client-Side Protection & Compliance: Fight Threats, Help Meet PCI DSS v4
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Akamai’s Perspective on September’s Patch Tuesday 2023
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Increase Performance, Decrease Costs with a Flexible Distributed Cloud
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DGA Families with Dynamic Seeds: Unexpected Behavior in DNS Traffic
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Analyzing Broken User Authentication Threats to JSON Web Tokens
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New Magecart-Style Campaign Abusing Legitimate Websites to Attack Others
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Deliver Faster Downloads for Better Browsing, Part 4 of 5
Web browsers read HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code as well as video, images, and SVG files, then use that data to build and render a web page...
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...
Akamai’s Differentiated Cloud Strategy
Akamai is taking a different approach to cloud computing than providers who base their platforms solely on core data centers. Read more about our strategy...
Exploiting a Critical Spoofing Vulnerability in Windows CryptoAPI
Akamai researchers have analyzed a critical vulnerability in Microsoft's CryptoAPI that would allow an attacker to masquerade as a legitimate entity...
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...
Four Steps: Effective API Security Using a Digital Bonding Strategy
Focus on API security as part of your digital bonding strategy, because APIs are already connecting your business activities...
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...
Getting It Done: It’s Go Time for Bold Leadership in Sustainability
Sustainability professionals from around the world convened in New York City for Climate Week NYC 2022, exploring the theme of the week to “get it done.”...
Power Digital Growth with App & API Protector
Experience “no trade-offs protection” with a free trial of Akamai App & API Protector...
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...
The Next Generation of HTTP
The IETF just released HTTP/3, an update to HTTP that leverages new transport protocol QUIC. Learn about how the new RFCs can affect any references to HTTP...
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...
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: January 2022
Hello, and welcome to our very first Developer Community update of 2022. In this new monthly series, we’ll share highlights of what is happening across the Akamai Developer Community. Since this is the first blog we’re posting, we will also catch up on news from October 2021 through today...
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...
Cyber Monday Web Traffic Up Over 2020
Online retail traffic that Akamai delivered during Cyber Monday was up 5% globally compared to Cyber Monday 2020 and 31% compared to average Monday traffic...
Digging Deeper – An In-Depth Analysis of a Fast Flux Network
Fast Flux is a DNS technique used by botnets to hide various types of malicious activities, such as phishing, web proxying, malware delivery, and malware communication, behind an ever-changing network of compromised hosts acting as proxies. The Fast Flux network concept was first introduced in...
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...
Akamai Named a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for Web Application and API Protection
This week, Gartner released its new 2021 Magic Quadrant for Web Application and API Protection WAAP report, which replaces the Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls WAF report, and Akamai has been named a Leader. Akamai was named a Leader in the four previous WAF Magic Quadrants...
Learn How Akamai Enables AI Powered Analytics Tools to Reduce Water Losses
The Accelerator Program, a flagship initiative of Akamai India’s Corporate Social Responsibility Trust, enables early-stage innovations for water conservation. Over the past two years, along with our mentoring partner, the International Center for Clean Water ICCW; an initiative of the Indian...
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...
What A Funny App I Got Here!
When you hear the word "malware", the first thing that might come to your mind is a PC or laptop. You think about some weird advertising pop-ups or unrecognized processes running in the background...
How Enigmo Moved Logic from Client to Origin to Edge
Enigmo owns BUYMA, a Japanese fashion C2C marketplace that helps people buy and sell high-quality goods from overseas on www.buyma.com...
XITE Music Video Platform Amplifies Entertainment with Akamai's Help
With so many people around the globe seeking socially distanced fun and solace, at-home entertainment has never been more important. XITE aims to offer the best music video experience in the world. Akamai is delighted that this exciting, interactive video platform chose to work with us to provide...
Akamai Recognized as 2021 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Web Application Firewalls
Akamai has been named a Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Web Application Firewalls for the second time...
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...
Act Against Geopiracy with Enhanced Proxy Detection
According to the description, the service is a virtual private network VPN desktop application and proxy browser extension that helps viewers mask their physical location, circumvent censorship, and restore access to blocked content...
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...
Inspiring the Next Generation with DigiGirlz
DigiGirlz is an initiative organized by Microsoft to engage girls in technological education and careers. The initiative, which launched in 2000, consists of two main programs: DigiGirlz Day and High Tech Camp. This program has been a cornerstone of Microsoft's community engagement for more than ...
Sustainability at Akamai: An Efficient Platform Powered by Energy Aggregation
If I had a dollar for every time I heard “unprecedented” in 2020, I could fund a clean energy project myself. And while we're tired of hearing this term, it's true amid the pandemic, U.S. presidential election, social justice movements, finalization of Brexit, and many other new and life-changing...
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...
Visualize Visitor Prioritization in Real Time with mPulse
The internet has become one of the most important access points in our daily lives. Unexpected surges in demand can slow web pages and create service outages for unprepared websites. A poor user experience leads to dissatisfied customers, making it more critical than ever to visualize and control...
Rethinking Defensive Strategy at the Edge, Part 3: Strategies for Protective Action
Our three-part blog series, Re-thinking Defensive Strategy at the Edge, has been focusing on outlining a new defensive edge strategy for today's enterprise. We began with a discussion of data and indicators. Most recently, our second post focused on using risk signals and correlating them for...
Making Connections to Sustainable Action During a Pandemic
There is no question that this year has brought disruption to life as we know it. As the world around us is changing, our concept of normalcy does too. Now, more than ever, it is critical that Akamai continue business as usual, providing fast, intelligent, and secure experiences for our customers...
Introducing Guardicore Threat Intelligence Firewall
Guardicore’s Threat Intelligence Firewall blocks connections to malicious IPs, limiting security attack surface before reaching critical assets...
From On-Prem to Cloud: The Complete AWS Security Checklist
This complete AWS cloud auditing security checklist outlines what it takes to protect sensitive data center security & intellectual property when securing an organization’s cloud deployment...