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Cybersecurity Issues in the Gaming Industry Portend Metaverse Challenges
The metaverse has greatly expanded the threat landscape. As industries gamify, gaming’s cybersecurity issues become a checklist for the future...
DNS: The Easiest Way to Exfiltrate Data?
Low throughput DNS exfiltration is a slow and low attack technique that is very hard to detect. Learn how Akamai can quickly detect this in near real time...
What’s New for Developers: March 2022
We have some excellent highlights this month. We’re excited to announce new videos, useful articles, an event recap, and much more...
Actions Akamai Is Taking on Russia and Ukraine
Akamai stands with the people of Ukraine. As the assault on Ukraine continues, we are inspired by the courageous citizens defending their sovereignty...
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...
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Build Dynamic, Secure Broadband Access for All of the U.S.
All Americans, regardless of background or location, deserve a fast, safe, and reliable digital experience. Whether in Silicon Valley, rural Montana, or an underserved area in Chicago, entrepreneurs, businesses, and consumers should be on an equal footing online. Unfortunately, that is not the...
Deploying Zero Trust Network Access for Secure Application Access? Don’t Forget to Secure Your Employees
Secure your workforce with the help of multi-factor authentication and Akamai's Zero Trust Network Access application in place of a virtual private network VPN...
Mirai Botnet Abusing Log4j Vulnerability
Threat Researcher Larry Cashdollar has discovered evidence of the Mirai botnet abusing Log4j vulnerability and shares code examples...
A Log4j Retrospective Part 3: Evolution — Payloads and Attack Diversification
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2021 SOTI Security: Year End Review
What a year 2021 has been. Even as the world continues to re-open to various degrees, we?re still feeling the impact from 2020?s move to an almost completely virtual world. Many large companies are shifting to a hybrid model, mixing the ability to work from home with working in the office. Some a...
The Magic of ?What if?: The Next Big Leap in Innovation is Coming
In 1962, futurist Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote ?any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.? And indeed, in the nearly 60 years since Clarke made this statement, we have witnessed giant leaps in technology that initially may have seemed, well, like magic. Think about...
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...
DataStream: Real-time Log Delivery for All Akamai Customers
We are pleased to announce that DataStream 2 is now available for all our customers. DataStream 2 provides customers with detailed log data from requests on the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform within minutes. DataStream 2 gives customers unparalleled visibility into events at the Akamai edge and...
Getting Ready for Some Holiday Shopping? So Are the Bots
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Redefining Security at the Mobile Edge
During the pandemic, organizations became more geographically dispersed, even if that only means people working from home instead of the office. As businesses begin to open up again, the trend is leaning toward mobility as a means to support a hybrid working environment, in which employees have...
Three Surefire Ways to Boost the Digital Banking Experience
The year 2020 disrupted just about every industry, including retail banking. Locked down at home, consumers were abruptly forced to do all their banking over the internet. The sudden transition profoundly impacted banks and created unprecedented demands on online infrastructure. Some banking site...
Holiday Readiness, Part Two: What you Should be Thinking About Three Months Out—Capacity Planning
Welcome back to the Holiday Readiness blog series. We hope part one has kept you busy over the past month as you continue to improve your security posture. If you haven’t finished all of the security checklist items, don’t worry — there is still time before Black Friday and Cyber Monday...
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...
The Rapid Resurgence of DDoS Extortion (That Didn't Take Long)
Just when we thought DDoS extortion was fading into the rearview mirror, it's time to circle up the trucks again gas tanks full...
Tax Season: Criminals Play the Numbers Game Too
Criminals love tax season. The stress and urgency surrounding this time of year makes the victim pool highly vulnerable to various types of schemes...
Authentication: Lessons Learned From Microsoft Exchange And F5 Big-IP Hacks
The past month has been a very dynamic time in the world of security for hackers and threat researchers, but it has been an extended nightmare for CSOs responsible for securing their enterprise networks...
Threat Advisory - DCCP for (D)DoS
Recent attacks against Akamai customers have leveraged a networking protocol known as protocol 33, or Datagram Congestion Control Protocol DCCP...
Akamai Launch Cohort 2 of Accelerator Program For Early-Stage Innovations in Water
Akamai Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. has chosen the grantees for Cohort 2 of Accelerator Program for Early-Stage Innovations in Water...
How Akamai Can Help You Fight the Latest Exploitation Attempts Against Microsoft Exchange
On March 2, 2021, the Microsoft Security Response Center alerted its customers to several?critical security?updates to Microsoft Exchange Server, addressing vulnerabilities currently?under attack...
Akamai Identified as a Leader in DDoS Mitigation by Forrester
This week, Akamai was again recognized as a Leader in the latest The Forrester Wave™: DDoS Mitigation Solutions, Q1 2021...
Optimizing For Performance, One Hire at a Time: Part 3
Having previously decided we need to make a new hire onto our team, part 1 of this series examined how to meet the needs of our team going into the future, instead of just adding surface visible technical skills...
Bitcoins, Blockchains, and Botnets
A recent piece of malware from a known crypto mining botnet campaign has started leveraging Bitcoin blockchain transactions in order to hide its backup C2 IP address. It's a simple, yet effective, way to defeat takedown attempts...
Gambling, Social Media, and 10 Years of Streaming the 'Big Game'
Thanks to the unique perspectives we have via the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform, we're able to observe massive amounts of web traffic and data that provide insights across the various industries Akamai serves. In the wake of Super Bowl LV, we're sharing some observations on gambling traffic an...
Distinguishing Among DNS Services Part 3: Investment and Innovation
This is Part 3 of a 3-part blog series highlighting some of the distinguishing aspects of Akamai's authoritative DNS services, Edge DNS and Global Traffic Management. Part 1 focused on Akamai's DNS platform and what sets it apart. Part 2...
When Destiny is Knocking on Your Door Again - Data Mining CDN Logs to Refine and Optimize Web Attack Detection
A few years ago, I wrote a blog post trying to explain, with humor, why choosing application security as a career path is destiny derived by my parents calling me "Or", and why a personal name that is a conditional word can sometimes be challenging in daily routines, since some attack payloads...
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...
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...
2020 DDoS Extortion Campaign -- A Sequel More Thrilling Than the Original
As the go-to enterprise distributed denial-of-service DDoS mitigation experts, our phones have been "ringing off the hook" since the release of the global extortion DDoS campaign sequel. This latest installment of the cybersecurity saga is bigger, badder, and features a broader cast of criminal...
Preparing the Edge for a Big Year in Live Streaming
Next year is shaping up to be a big one for live streaming. Typically characteristic of even years, when many major international sporting events take place, 2021 looks like it could defy the trend. Akamai is predicting an unprecedented surge in live streaming that will start in late 2020 and...
Headwinds and Tailwinds - Cycling For Climate Awareness in a Global Pandemic
If you told me at the beginning of 2020 that I'd be cycling 250 miles in the remote Upper Peninsula of Michigan, fundraising for an organization called "Climate Ride", and wearing a face mask to go grocery shopping - I would not have believed you. Yet, since March 2020, we've all been living the...
Banks Prioritizing Microsegmentation
Learn how microsegmentation allows financial institutions to achieve goals, from automation to streamlining firewall compliance, while protected...
Record 0-Second SLA PPS Mitigation
On May 2, 2020, Akamai blocked a large PPS-focused attack against one of our financial services customers in 0 seconds, utilizing a proactive mitigation posture. This was one of the largest PPS levels we have on record, and the biggest mitigated to date in 0 seconds. The attacker launched a bevy ...
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...
At 21 Tbps, Reaching New Levels of IPv6 Traffic
The global adoption of IPv6 is important to the future of the internet and Akamai has been committed to helping move IPv6 deployment forward ever since we launched production IPv6 support in 2012...
Faster JWT Key Rotation in API Gateway
JSON Web Tokens JWT use digital signatures to establish the authenticity of the data they contain, as well as authenticating the identity of the signer. A valid signature check ensures that any party can rely on the contents and the...
Device Hopping Shoppers Drive Up Bounce Rates Leading Into Holiday 2019
Executive Summary In 2018, Akamai reported for the first time that shoppers used mobile devices more than desktops for all the major peak traffic events we measured. Interestingly, they often don't complete their purchase on a mobile device. If the most recently concluded back-to-school shopping...
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...
The Voice of Tech: Who We Are, What We Want to Say
Have you ever wondered what it might be like to see inside one of the biggest tech companies in the world? Well, we're starting a new series of blogs to give you the insight you've never had before. Akamai's innovations...
Global Traffic Management for Cloud, Data Centers, and CDNs
Twenty years ago it would be common to have multiple data centers load balanced with specialized devices. The applications in multiple data centers would use the Domain Name System DNS to look up the application destination. The DNS system would be set up to with multiple data center locations...
Protecting your Domain Names: Taking the First Steps
Everyone and everything on the Internet depends on the Domain Name System DNS being functional. The DNS has been a common vector for attacks in recent years, and 2019 seems to be no different. Many of these attacks have goals far more sinister than simply taking a company offline or defacing a...
A Vulnerability in Debian’s Apt Allows for Easy Lateral Movement in Data Centers
Learn about the new vulnerability that was found in Debian’s Advanced Package Tool that allows for easy lateral movement in data center...
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...
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...
Humans, Machines and Data: Fighting Mirai, Together
By Yohai Einav, Hongliang Liu Background It's been 18 months since Mirai entered our lives, and, unfortunately, we expect it to have a perennial presence in our cyber-world for years to come. If we look at the big picture, all indicators suggest that the Mirai problem and its descendants is just...
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...