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The Web Scraping Problem: Part 1
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What Else Can You Do to Defend Against Bots?
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Put Your Best Foot Forward: The Impact of Sneaker Bots on Holiday Shopping
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Guidance on the Recent Critical libwebp and libvpx Vulnerabilities
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PCI DSS v4: Uncovering Web Skimming Threats with Payment Integrations
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Akamai’s Perspective on August’s Patch Tuesday 2023
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A CEO’s Perspective: Data Transfer Is the Silent Killer
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Aging-in-Place: Why HCIT Professionals Should Adopt Zero Trust Security
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Conquering Adversarial Bots and Humans to Prevent Account Takeovers
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Navigating a New Reality: Content Personalization at Scale
Prioritizing content personalization can improve user engagement, enhance customer experiences, and boost revenue on a global scale...
Deliver Fast, Reliable, and Secure Web Experiences with HTTP/3
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Today’s Top 4 IT Investment Trends Across the Healthcare Ecosystem
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Akamai’s Perspective on May’s Patch Tuesday 2023
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Get More from Your Player Analytics and CDN Logs with CMCD
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Chatbots, Celebrities, and Victim Retargeting: Why Crypto Giveaway Scams Are Still So Successful
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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...
Highly Sophisticated Phishing Scams Are Abusing Holiday Sentiment
The holiday season is around the corner, which means phishing season is too. Akamai Security Research details the new ways adversaries are abusing the holidays...
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...
The Internet Architecture Board Takes on Sustainability
Join Akamai and the Internet Architecture Board to make shift happen. Let's work together to make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. GreenWithAkamai...
Edge DNS and the Top-Level Domain Hosting
Akamai Edge DNS offers the scale and functionality to meet ICANN’s intensive requirements for hosting a generic top-level domain gTLD zone in DNS...
Financial Services Malware Just Won’t Die: What to Do About It?
The continued reemergence of the Emotet malware is keeping cybersecurity professionals on their toes. Zero Trust solutions are here to help...
Holiday Readiness, Part I: Best Practices for Maintaining Peak Performance
Preparing for a post-pandemic holiday season means managing for peak application and system performance...
Now Available on GitHub: Akamai CLI Utility v1.0 for Akamai Terraform
With v0.9 of the Akamai CLI for Terraform, application development teams can build on infrastructure as code IaC and maintain rapid development without compromising security...
Meet Tim Vereecke: Technical Solutions Architect
Tim Vereecke, technical solutions architect at Akamai, discusses how he uses a developer-first mindset to find internet performance solutions...
Power Digital Growth with App & API Protector
Experience “no trade-offs protection” with a free trial of Akamai App & API Protector...
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...
The Relentless Evolution of DDoS Attacks
Explore how DDoS attacks are practically unrecognizable from those of the past few years thanks to constant innovation in the threat landscape...
What's the Value of a Key-Value Store?
Learn about the benefits and drawbacks of a key-value store: a data structure designed for storing and returning values associated with keys as unique identifiers...
Adding Multi-Factor Authentication to Employee Logins: A Sound Security Principle
The year 2021 was definitely challenging for security practitioners. The number of data breaches continued to rise; a report issued by the Identity Theft Resource Center stated that the total number of breaches in the first three quarters of 2021 exceeded the total number of events in all of 2020...
A Log4j Retrospective Part 1: Vulnerability Background
Learn about the widely used Java-based logging library Log4j and how its vulnerability and other capabilities presented a major opportunity to attackers...
CVE-2021-44228 - Zero Day Vulnerability in Apache Log4j that allows remote code execution (RCE)
See how Akamai helped open-source logging library Log4j fight against a critical unauthenticated remote code execution RCE vulnerability and reduce customer exposure...
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...
Strategy for the Office Anywhere
Organizations must deploy a remote working strategy that suits the office anywhere model CIOs need to demonstrate leadership as we move out of lockdown into a new model of working in which the office is wherever the employee is. It’s time to build on this initial success and embed a remote workin...
Why Zero Trust Needs the Edge
Backhauling traffic destroys performance, and backhauling attack traffic can destroy even more. Nevertheless, in a traditional security deployment model, we are faced with the lose-lose options of either backhauling all traffic to the security stack or allowing some accesses to not go through the...
Anyone for Alphabet Soup? ZTNA, SWGs, MFA, and More: Lessons Learned from Fed Day CyberThreats 2021
Last week, we gathered a few of the most prominent leaders and experts from every corner of the federal space to talk about all things cybersecurity and digital transformation. Discussions ranged from the move toward Zero Trust Network Access ZTNA, and effectively managing identities and access...
Zero Trust: Not As Scary As It Sounds
If the term Zero Trust has been popping up in your news feed with astonishing frequency lately, you may be tempted to think that Zero Trust must be a brand-new technology cooked up in a research lab at MIT and powered by the latest artificial intelligence, machine learning, quantum computing, and...
Mind the Gap: Securely Embracing the Digital Explosion
State and local governments are weathering a digital explosion. The move to "virtual everything" means that greater amounts of information are being produced and transmitted electronically, but the digital infrastructure powering these operations is straining under the weight...
Akamai Provides Prolexic DDoS Service Impact Update (Status: Resolved)
Akamai experienced an outage for one of its Prolexic DDoS services Routed 3.0 starting at 4:20 AM UTC. We detected the issue immediately, and impacted customers received an error alert within seconds. The impact was limited to Akamai customers using version 3.0 of the Routed service...
SAML Implementation Vulnerability Impacting Some Akamai Services
This blog post provides an overview of a vulnerability discovered in Akamai's Enterprise Application Access EAA product which has been patched...
ThinkPHP Exploit Actively Exploited in the Wild
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Anyone For a Smart Network Slice?
As with any standardization effort, development of 5G specifications accounted for numerous technology trends and new use cases...
Akamai Recognized as 2021 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Web Application Firewalls
Akamai has been named a Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Web Application Firewalls for the second time. Gartner defines web application firewalls WAFs as "solutions designed to protect web applications and APIs from a variety of attacks, including automated bots, injection and...
The Akamai Foundation: Our Chance to Give Back
The Akamai Foundation was set up in 2018 to improve the impact and focus of our long-term philanthropic activities...
The Edge is Becoming More Critical in a World of 5G and IoT
The edge is becoming more critical in a world of 5G and IoT. I've seen the evolution from 1x to 3G to 4G and now 5G over the many years I've worked in the mobile space, and 5G and IoT will drive the biggest changes we have seen on the edge in 10 or 20 years...
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...
Sensor Architecture Can Help Keep Us Up and Running: Part 1
In the constant press of rolling out ever better products and services to our customers, it can be easy-- and often necessary-- to fall into a reactive mode around reliability...
Akamai's Internship Program in Krakow
The beginning of a new year is a time to look back and reflect on the previous one. December 31st is also the end date of our annual Krakow Internship Program. Last year's intake was very unique due to the pandemic and the shift towards a remote work environment. Akamai was fortunate to be able t...
Our ESG Commitment: Investing in a Better World
Environmental, social, and governance ESG issues are quickly emerging as a key concern for investors. To use a musical analogy, the bow is just resting on the first string, with more notes sure to follow. At Akamai, our ESG instrument is well tuned and ready for the symphony to come, as evidenced...