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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A Place To Belong

While I've worked for Silicon Valley-based startups and even spent time in the travel tech industry, I'd sometimes feel I was just part of the system. Working each day to earn my keep, and with no bigger purpose than that...

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...

Web Application and API Protection: From SQL Injection to Magecart

SQL injections were first discovered in 1998, and over 20 years later, they remain an unsolved challenge and an ongoing threat for every web application and API. The Open Web Application Security Project OWASP highlighted injection flaws in its Top 10 lists for both web application security risks...

My Advice For Candidates During the COVID-19 Environment

Kerry Condon is Global Head of Talent Acquisition at Akamai Technologies. With more than 20 years' experience as a strategic human resources leader across emerging and developed markets, she shares her take on how candidates can put their best foot forward during these unusual times...

Banks Prioritizing Microsegmentation

Learn how microsegmentation allows financial institutions to achieve goals, from automation to streamlining firewall compliance, while protected...

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...

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...

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...

Your Cache is Exposed

On February 28, Akamai recorded a 1.35 Tbps DDoS attack against one of our customers. The attack was driven by a relatively new vector, memcached reflection. Possibly the largest publicly disclosed DDoS attack to date, the memcached attack was more than twice the size of the largest DDoS attacks...

Micheal McCollough Recognized as 2018 CRN® Channel Chief

This week, Micheal McCollough, Vice President, Global Channels, of Akamai was recognized and named as 2018 Channel Chief by CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company. The executives on this annual list represent top leaders in the IT channel who excel at driving growth and revenue in their organizatio...

Good News from Singapore

The IETF had its 100th meeting the week of November 13. It was held in Singapore. I want to report on two pieces of good news. The first is that it seems like TLS 1.3 is ready to advance through the IETF process. As I wrote last month, the problem was that outdated or buggy network devices betwee...

The State of Mobile App Performance

In our previous blog, we saw how a new generation of users are increasing the expectations of a mobile app like never before and identified the three key success criteria for mobile apps: 1 increase customer conversions, 2 drive installs and 3 increase customer loyalty. For this blog we profiled...

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...

Launching Forward with IPv6

With the era of freely available IPv4 addresses nearing its end, I'm pleased to see that 2012 appears to be the year when the IPv6 Internet will finally reach maturity and launch into wide-scale commercial use. For over a decade, the groundwork for the migration to version 6 of the Internet...

In China and Japan, Malicious Botnets Surge Amidst Holiday Ecommerce Traffic

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Closing the Gap Between Detection and Protection with AI-Assisted Custom Rules

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Akamai Cloud Pulse Audit Logs Are Generally Available

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AI Inference Is Swallowing the Cloud

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Microsegmentation: Your Digital First Responder to LLM Threats

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Introducing Password-Less Provisioning and Atomic Customization for VMs

Akamai Cloud introduces password-less provisioning and atomic customization. Align with Zero Trust by eliminating root passwords and hardening VMs at creation...

Why AI-Powered Vulnerability Discovery Strengthens Akamai's Security Mission

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Inside the Fix: Analysis of In-the-Wild Exploit of CVE-2026-21513

Read how PatchDiff-AI uncovered the root cause of CVE-2026-21513 — an actively exploited MSHTML vulnerability — and how APT28 leveraged it in real-world attacks...

Valkey: The Future of Open Source In-Memory Data Stores

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How Search Engines, LLMs, and Third-Party Scrapers Affect Bot Management

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From VPN to Zero Trust: Why It’s Time to Retire Traditional VPNs, Part 2

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Honoring Innovation, Growth, and Collaboration: The Akamai Partner Awards

Introducing the Akamai Partner Awards, which recognize excellence — both organizational and individual — in sales, services, marketing, and technical impact...