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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...
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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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...
CVE-2025-14847: All You Need to Know About MongoBleed
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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...
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...
Cloud Migration Strategy: The Step-By-Step Framework and Benefits
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Anatomy of a SYN-ACK Attack
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Arming the Defenders: A SOTI Report for Those Who Protect the Enterprise
Defenders, this one is for you. Read this SOTI report to get actionable insights from cybersecurity experts who battle cyberthreats every day...
Cache Hit Ratio: The Key Metric for Happier Users and Lower Expenses
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Major Enhancements to Akamai API Security, Q4 2024
The Akamai API Security updates 3.38, 3.39, and 3.40 include configurable blocking, the automatic creation of posture findings from runtime incidents, and more...
Securing APIs While Navigating Today’s Booming API Economy
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6 Tips for a Successful Security Vendor Consolidation
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Women in Tech: Remain Open to Unexpected Opportunities
Akamai CIO Kate Prouty explores the benefits of remaining open to new opportunities and salutes the bond among women in tech...
Running CloudTest on Akamai Cloud Computing
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Akamai’s Perspective on May’s Patch Tuesday 2024
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Akamai Recognized as a Customers’ Choice for Cloud WAAP for the 5th Year
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KeyTrap Highlights Need for Enduring DNS Defenses for Service Providers
DNS resolvers must be highly resilient to malicious activity like DoS attacks and cache poisoning. Akamai CacheServe delivers enduring defenses...
Welcome to 2024: A Year in Review with Akamai Hunt
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Enhancing Object Storage Performance: Introducing NVMe Hardware and Expanded Capacity
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Akamai’s Perspective on February’s Patch Tuesday 2024
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Mute the Sound: Chaining Vulnerabilities to Achieve RCE on Outlook: Pt 2
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