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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...
Akamai’s Compliance with Cross-border Transfer Laws
Akamai is compliant with applicable data privacy regulations in countries where we and our customers conduct business. This is a fundamental tenet of our company’s core values. After all, when you make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day, there’s an expectation that you wi...
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...
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...
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's Technical Enablement and Education Team, Part of the Global Services and Support Organization, Wins 2020 Chief Learning Officer Magazine Gold Award
On October 2020, the Akamai Technical Enablement and Education TE&E Team -- responsible for creating product-training certifications for employees Global Services and Support GSS, customers Akamai University, and channel partners Advanced Partner Enablement -- won its second industry award for...
Why Take It to the Edge
Edge computing is the next natural paradigm shift in IT, bringing a new wave of decentralization. Over the past decade, IT has embraced two seemingly juxtaposed trends: the consolidation of infrastructure and data in private, public, or hybrid clouds, and the growing distribution and diversity of...
Tackling Video Piracy Head-On
We are clearly in a "new" golden age of TV. Audiences around the world have never had so many viewing options available. This has led to a creative surge in new groundbreaking storytelling and entertainment as both broadcasters and digital giants try to maintain the loyalty of their viewers. This...
How to Do Micro-Segmentation the Right Way
Micro-segmentation is the central IT security best practice response to overly-permissive policies. Learn how to do it right...
Change the Rules Speaker Event
Akamai's Women's Forum Americas, OHANA and In Reach Employee Resource Groups recently hosted Cross ERG 'Change the Rules' Keynote - Celebration of Black History Month in our Chicago office. We were excited to have notable Michelle Silverthorn, CEO of Inclusion Nation, a company that focuses on...
Introducing Guardicore Threat Intelligence Firewall
Guardicore’s Threat Intelligence Firewall blocks connections to malicious IPs, limiting security attack surface before reaching critical assets...
New DDoS Vector Observed in the Wild: WSD Attacks Hitting 35/Gbps
Additional research and support provided by Chad Seaman. Introduction Members of Akamai's Security Intelligence Response Team have been investigating a new DDoS vector that leverages a UDP Amplification technique known as WS-Discovery WSD. The situation surrounding WSD was recently made...
NSX-T vs. NSX-V – Key Differences and Pitfalls to Avoid
Learn the difference between VMware’s segmentation offerings, NSX-T vs NSX-V, and understand the several potential pitfalls that are important to consider before deployment...
Preventing the Top Data Center Breaches
Data center breaches can seem impossible to avoid, but good data center security can seriously reduce your risk. We look at famous breaches Equifax, Yahoo, & more...
Introducing Guardicore Cyber Threat Intelligence
Introducing Cyber Threat Intelligence CTI, a freely available resource to assist in identifying and investigating malicious IP addresses and domains...
Akamai in the Community: Making Tech Accessible
Here at Akamai, we believe every person is important, and that no one should be left out. Our internal culture is cultivated by looking outwards, into the community, to make the life of our society better. Not only do we...
Akamai India's StandTall Program
Diversity and Inclusion is a mission-critical goal at Akamai. In support of this goal, the India Learning and Development team in collaboration with the Women's Forum India employee resource group, launched an initiative that aims to foster a culture of...
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...
VLAN Network Segmentation – What are The Hidden Costs?
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Why would customers choose me?
Competitive Differentiation Guide for Financial Services in Digital India We are a young nation 1.3 billion strong, of which just about 500 million are active internet users. Not a small number by any means. We have world's second largest pool of internet users and our online population is larger...
The Dark Side of APIs: Part 1, API Overview
Application Programming Interfaces API are a software design approach which enables software and system developers to integrate with other systems based on a defined set of communication methods. APIs serve as software building blocks and allow for software reuse - essentially allowing fast...
Passing the Online Torch from Rio to PyeongChang
Lighting the flame marks the beginning of PyeongChang, commemorating the ancient Greek myth of Prometheus stealing fire from Zeus, and connecting the games to its predecessors. The lighting ceremony has provided some of the most iconic moments, such as Muhammad Ali lighting the flame in Atlanta i...
Introduction to DNS Data Exfiltration
Written by Asaf Nadler and Avi Aminov Updated 2/14/19 After the initial publication of this blog post, Asaf Nadler and Avi Aminov wrote a paper on the detection of malicious and low throughput data exfiltration over the DNS protocol. The...
SambaCry, the Seven Year Old Samba Vulnerability, is the Next Big Threat (for now)
As Samba is used as part of many organizations storage systems, we will discuss the impact of the vulnerability on organizations and home users...
Nine Years of Better Broadband
One of the questions I am frequently asked about the State of the Internet is how things are changing - what are the trends we see in the data? As we've just closed out the ninth year of publication of the Connectivity report, I thought that it would be a good time to take look back and see just...
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...
PacketFence Cloud: Enterprise Network Access Control, Now a Managed Service
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Microsegmentation: Your Digital First Responder to LLM Threats
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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...
AI Security at Machine Speed: A Roadmap for Modern AppSec
With AI API calls set to grow 1,000x by 2027, you need a roadmap to secure your enterprise against agentic threats...
Consistent Protections Without Compromise: Akamai’s WAF Is Now on AWS Marketplace
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CVE-2026-34354: Guardicore Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Read the technical details of a security vulnerability CVE-2026-34354 in Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent for Windows — and get clear guidance on mitigation...
CVE-2025-29635: Mirai Campaign Targets D-Link Devices
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The Grim SessionReaper (CVE-2025-54236) Comes to Collect for Halloween
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From VPN to Zero Trust: Why It’s Time to Retire Traditional VPNs, Part 2
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Scope 3, Category 8: What Akamai Is Doing for Customer Reporting
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Locked Out and Held for Ransom: A City's Battle Against Cybercrime
Read how having a plan and doing some preparation in advance can lessen the severity of a ransomware attack — or prevent one altogether...
Anatomy of a SYN-ACK Attack
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