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Pursuing Cyber Resiliency So Healthcare Can Weather the Worst Storms
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Give Me an E, Give Me a T, Give Me a W. What Do You Get? RPC!
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Protect Every API Anywhere with API Security
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Hot Topics at Healthcare Conferences: From AI to Cyber Insurance Costs
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Render Pages Faster for Optimized Browsing, Part 5 of 5
Find out what happens once the browser has downloaded usable assets and it's time to display something on-screen...
Get More from Your Player Analytics and CDN Logs with CMCD
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The Most Common Combosquatting Keyword Is “Support”
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SEO Need-to-Knows: Google’s Core Web Vitals, Part 2 of 5
Learn about Google's Core Web Vitals — LCP, FID, and CLS — and how improving them can enhance your users’ experience and SEO ranking...
Boost Your Page Load Times with Performance Engineering, Part 1 of 5
Get up to speed with web performance, the Core Web Vitals, and other metrics to increase your revenue and rank your page higher on Google...
Emulating KmsdBot’s Command and Control and Examining Its Attack Traffic
Read about the global impact of KmsdBot, a botnet that hit our honeypot earlier this year, and why the evidence is pointing toward it being a DDoS for hire...
DNS Threat Report — Q3 2022
Akamai's visibility into global traffic through Q3 provides insight into phishing campaigns and potential user susceptibility to malware attacks...
A Vote of Confidence for Election Security
CISA has released its free Cybersecurity Toolkit to help election authorities prepare for possible threats. Read more to learn about its offerings...
Purple Fox Rootkit Now Propagates as a Worm
Purple Fox is an active malware campaign targeting Windows machines. Up until recently, Purple Fox’s operators infected machines by using exploit kits and phishing emails...
Largest European DDoS Attack on Record
On Thursday, July 21st, Akamai detected and mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever launched against a European customer on the Prolexic platform...
What’s New for Developers: July 2022
This month’s developer update is jam-packed with exciting news, helpful articles, and useful code, including a new Terraform Provider release and much more...
Cybersecurity Is a Team Sport: 3 Takeaways from Israel’s Cyber Week
The future of cybersecurity relies on successful international partnerships and collaboration to ultimately thwart cybercriminals and cyberattacks...
The Kit That Wants It All: Scam Mimics PayPal?s Known Security Measures
Identity theft affects millions of people every year. See this piece on a scam purporting to be PayPal in an effort to gain total identity theft...
Protecting Your Healthcare Organization During Uncertain Times
Explore three ways healthcare organizations can boost cybersecurity, critical infrastructure, and ransomware protection to prepare for potential cyberthreats...
Undetected Attacks on Anti-Malware Agents Using DNS Spoofing
Although we’ve made significant progress as a community in this regard, there are still instances in which the outcome of DNS spoofing attacks can go undetected. In this article, we describe a DNS spoofing attack that goes unnoticed by users...
What's Driving Multi-Factor Authentication Adoption?
The need for businesses to deploy MFA for the protection of employee accounts has never been greater — according to the latest Verizon Data Breach report, nearly 80% of data breaches involve the use of stolen or compromised employee credentials and brute force logins...
How We’re Conserving Energy While Energizing Online Experiences
I’ve always loved building things. At Akamai, I get to be part of a team that builds amazing things — things that power and protect online experiences and make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. But delivering those online experiences comes with a catch...
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Security's Role in Internet Resilience
One aspect of resilience on the internet is that things — notably servers and resources — move around. Sometimes moves are legitimate, such as when a popular site evolves from hosting their own website to moving to a cloud provider to using a CDN to handle the ever-increasing traffic. Sometimes t...
How to Cultivate a Security-first Approach to Your Business
Businesses of all types and sizes are struggling with complexity. They?re addressing hybrid workforces that need to be secured, digital transformation programs, geographic regulations and data laws, industry regulations, and the list goes on. In the midst of this complexity, organizations have to...
Holiday Readiness, Part Three: What you Should be Thinking About Two Months Out—Performance Optimizations
October is here, and that means we are less than two months away from the busiest weekend of the year. Parts one and two of the Holiday Readiness blog series covered topics ranging from security checklists to disaster recovery strategies and flash crowd management. If you haven’t had a chance to...
Which Online Shopping Experience Should I Try Today?
Do you remember the first time you made an online purchase? Me neither. I?ve made so many online purchases over the years, and I?ve probably made more in the past 18 months than in the past 5 years combined...
hAFL1 – Our Journey of Fuzzing Hyper-V and Discovering a Critical 0-Day
Within hours from the moment our in-house built fuzzer, hAFL1, started running – it found a critical, CVSS 9.9 RCE vulnerability in Hyper-V’s virtual driver...
Cutting the Red Tape: Lessons Learned from CyberThreats 2021
If I had a dollar for every time I heard the phrase “digital transformation,” I would have a lot of dollars. I’m sure you would too. We’d have even more if we counted the term “Zero Trust.” Maybe we should start counting them, now that I think about it!...
Kaseya Supply Chain Ransomware Attack
On July 2, 2021, Kaseya disclosed an active attack against customers using its VSA product, and urged all on-premise customers to switch-off Kaseya VSA. Shortly before this alert, users on Reddit started describing ransomware incidents against managed security providers MSPs, and the common threa...
The Countdown Has Started - The Move Toward Zero Trust and MFA
In early May 2021, the President of the United States issued an executive order on cybersecurity, and though it will take some time for executive branch agencies to develop formal rules, the order itself includes a lot of what I consider to be best practice in cybersecurity, including the use of...
Crypto Threats Surge by 500%, and It's All About the Money
Previously reserved for early adopters and tech-savvy consumers, cryptocurrencies have gone mainstream -- with tech entrepreneurs and prominent financial institutions leading the charge...
HTTP/3 and QUIC: Past, Present, and Future
You may have seen the announcements over the past two weeks -- the IETF QUIC RFCs have been published! That leads to a lot of questions, depending on how closely you've followed this space...
It's Official - Akamai is a Great Place to Work
When Akamai Costa Rica won the 'Great Place to Work' award, we were delighted. It's a wonderful achievement that really means a lot to Akamai and to all the collaborators who have worked here. It highlights the great working environment that Akamai have created for us. But it also shines a light ...
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...
How Akamai Employees Showed Up for Akamai Earth Month
Akamai employees across the globe showed up in full force for Akamai Earth Month 2021 -- our campaign to help employees take small actions at home and in their community to make a difference for the planet...
Innovative Ways Customers Compute on the Edge
Moving everything closer to the edge is the key to delivering better, faster experiences to people through billions of devices around the world...
Caught on Camera: Rethinking IoT Security
We all know that we're on camera pretty much constantly -- most coffee shops, convenience stores, and even offices employ security cameras for protection. But what happens when those devices built to keep us safe become unsafe?...
Microsoft Exchange and Verkada Hacks: Isolate Your Apps and APIs from the Internet Cesspool
It's been an interesting start to March in terms of public security incidents. This month kicked off with multiple zero-day exploits being used to attack on-premises versions of Microsoft Exchange Server. And, as if that wasn't enough, that attack was quickly followed by the news that a hacktivis...
Akamai Offers Free Tier for Client-Side Edge Security
In March 2020, Akamai saw a dramatic 30% rise in internet traffic -- equivalent to an entire year of growth. Post-pandemic, we believe there will be a return to normal internet traffic growth, but many things will never be the same...
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...
Can Edge Computing Exist Without the Edge? Part 3: The Economics of Edge Computing
Do the math. For the past decade, digital businesses have been investing in digital transformation initiatives. The promise is to increase top-line growth while maximizing customer lifetime value. As infrastructure improves, IT spending is shifting from the cloud to the edge. But while edge...
Optimizing for Performance, One Hire at a Time: Part 1
It's a lot of fun to imagine and design the best team. As managers, it's rare that we get to build a team from the ground up and all at once...
Edge Redirector Cloudlet Gets Faster
Cloudlets Policy Manager often takes a long time to load, which is a by-product of its original design where every policy activation is an individual file. These files must be moved around the network, and as you might imagine, transferring thousands of files in a multi-tenant network can take a...
Sustainability Requires Collaboration: Akamai's Growing Community and Supply Chain Initiatives
Akamai is committed to collaboration that inspires worldwide change. We know it's not enough to be environmentally conscious solely in our own business. To make a true impact on climate change, we need to use our unique position as a global corporation to encourage our partners to join us in taki...
Retrospective 2020: DDoS Risk Higher Than Ever
Never before has the risk of a distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack been higher. In 2020, we saw record-breaking attacks, a DDoS extortion campaign impacting thousands of organizations globally, more emergency customer turnups, and more Akamai customers attacked than any year on record -- an...
Smart DNS for the New Network: Optimizing Content Delivery
The presence of public "over the top" DNS resolution alternatives is a strong motivator for ISPs to invest in making their DNS resolution infrastructure the best that it can be. Resolvers are the glue that binds subscribers to their fixed and mobile broadband services. Operators of public DNS...
Stopping Active Attacks with Penalty Box
Unfortunately, today's sophisticated web application threats have gained some advantages over typical WAFs: Favorable odds -- WAFs must correctly identify attacks 100% of the time, whereas attackers have the luxury of only needing to find a single bypass or evasion Temporary fixes -- Many WAFs us...
Distinguishing Among DNS Services Part 2: The Economics
This is Part 2 of a 3-part blog series highlighting some of the distinguishing aspects of Akamai's DNS services, Edge DNS and Global Traffic Management...
Distinguishing Among DNS Services Part 2: The Economics
This is Part 2 of a three-part blog series highlighting some of the distinguishing aspects of Akamai's Domain Name System DNS services, Edge DNS and Global Traffic Management...