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Deploying Harper and Akamai Cloud for Faster API Performance
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Deliver Fast, Reliable, and Secure Web Experiences with HTTP/3
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Deliver Fast, Reliable, and Secure Web Experiences with HTTP/3
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Akamai’s Perspective on May’s Patch Tuesday 2023
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Hot Topics at Healthcare Conferences: From AI to Cyber Insurance Costs
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Get More from Your Player Analytics and CDN Logs with CMCD
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Why a Distributed Cloud Is Perfect for Streaming
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Akamai’s Perspective on March’s Patch Tuesday 2023
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Introducing Akamai Hunt to Stop the Most Evasive Threats and Risks
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Changing Healthcare Delivery Requires Evolving Security Strategies
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What’s New for Developers: 2022 Recap
Read the year-end review of developer highlights for 2022...
Akamai’s Perspective on January’s Patch Tuesday 2023
Every Patch Tuesday stirs up the community. See Akamai's insights and recommendations on what to focus on, and patch, patch, patch!...
Improve URL Redirects with EdgeWorkers and EdgeKV
Use Akamai EdgeWorkers and Akamai EdgeKV to make intelligent redirect decisions...
EDR vs. Segmentation: Understanding the Differences
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Cyberterrorists Target Record Number of Victims with DDoS Attacks in Q2
In Q2, cyberterrorists targeted a record number of customer locations groupings of assets based on cloud presence or physical data center with DDoS attacks...
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...
Bots Are Scalping Israeli Government Services
Bots can be used for good, but can also be nefarious. In this post, see Akamai's research on the Israeli Gamken bot copycat...
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...
Australia Experiences Massive Spike in WAF Multi-Vector, DDoS Attacks
With web applications under increased attacks, Akamai has analyzed data points for web application firewall WAF multi-vector and DDoS attacks between April 2021 and March 2022 to determine the severity of the situation in Australia...
Why Linode+Akamai Is Transformational for How Developers Use the Cloud
Just three weeks have gone by since Akamai officially welcomed Linode into our fold, and I’m encouraged by the excitement that so many have expressed about the combination of our two companies since we announced the acquisition in February. In conversations with us, industry analysts use the word...
Creating a More Diverse Tech Future with the Akamai Foundation
2021, a year of creating a more diverse tech future with The Akamai Foundation...
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...
FritzFrog: P2P Botnet Hops Back on the Scene
FritzFrog is a peer-to-peer botnet, which means its command and control server is not limited to a single, centralized machine, but rather can be done from every machine in its distributed network. In other words, every host running the malware process becomes part of the network, and is capable ...
Keeping Up with the Botnets
It’s no secret that the global pandemic increased opportunities for threat actors and cybercriminals to target financial services. Throughout 2020, scammers used the economic tension caused by COVID-19 — the promise of financial assistance, the stress of financial hardship — to target people acro...
Magecart Skimmers Are Alive and Well – Constant Vigilance Is Required
Magecart skimmers are here to stay, and they’re becoming more sophisticated, more creative, and harder to detect. In this post, we reveal a new skimmer infrastructure that targets ecommerce sites all over the world with advanced methods of detection evasion and obfuscation...
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...
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...
The Power of Why: Rediscovering Akamai’s Purpose
As I took on the role of Chief Marketing Officer of Akamai earlier this year, I set out to inspire and challenge our teams to build an impactful global campaign that showcases not just what we do, but what we make possible. What quickly became clear is that to be authentic in talking about what w...
What Is a TCP Three-Way Handshake?
The TCP three-way handshake is one of the critical building blocks of the internet. It facilitates the smooth and consistent flow of information across and among different networks without compromising security...
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...
Zero Trust Should Not Give IT a Bad Name
Maybe you’ve just found out that your company’s IT organization is implementing Zero Trust. Does that mean they don’t trust you? “Zero Trust” sure sounds that way. Maybe you’ve read about it online or heard somebody talk about it in terms that equate Zero Trust with the idea that users and device...
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...
Visualize and Analyze Bots With Real User Monitoring
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Visualize and Analyze Bots with Real User Monitoring
You interact with more than just customers on your website. Bots make up a disproportionate amount of traffic, which can skew human behavior analysis data -- and cause you to make the wrong business decisions...
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...
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...
SolarWinds Hack and the Case of DNS Security
It's not news that some of the top government agencies and companies in the world were victims of the SolarWinds attack. At this point, I can say it's the reason I didn't have a smoother transition back into work-life following a long vacation. As I understand it, the breaches happened after...
Minecraft Players are Targets Even Off the Network
When we write the SOTI and talk about attacks against gamers, we spend a good deal of time focusing on network-level events, such as DDoS and credential stuffing...
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...
Congratulations to 2020 Akamai Partners of the Year
Last year proved to be a year like no other. We faced unforeseen challenges, including adjusting to a new way of working, collaborating, and conducting business. It is an honor for me to announce the Akamai Partners of the Year for 2020 who went above and beyond in this tumultuous year. These...
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...
A New Skimmer Uses WebSockets and a Fake Credit Card Form to Steal Sensitive Data
A new skimmer attack was discovered this week, targeting various online e-commerce sites built with different frameworks. As I write this blog post, the attack is still active and exfiltrating data...
Death by a Thousand Cuts: Nuisance DDoS Attacks in the Games Industry
At Akamai, we talk a lot about DDoS attacks. It's because we're pretty good at handling them. We've stopped many of the world's biggest attacks. And, while less common, they get a lot of attention. But we can also stop the world's smallest attacks. And we stop lots of them. It's these smaller...
20 Years of Edge Computing
How long will you wait for something? That depends on what you're waiting for, of course. But in your daily interactions, think about how many "things" you interact with where you expect the response to be instantaneous -- tapping on mobile apps; logging in and transacting with a retailer or a...
Large, Complex DDoS Attacks on the Rise in 2020
While we've highlighted both record PPS and BPS attacks mitigated on the Akamai Prolexic Platform over the past few weeks, these attacks are part of a broader trend of increasingly large and complex DDoS activity. We have seen clear indications across the industry of high-water mark DDoS attacks...
The Bondnet Army
Guardicore Labs has recently picked up Bondnet, a botnet of thousands of compromised servers of varying power. Managed and controlled remotely, the Bondnet is currently used to mine different cryptocurrencies and is ready to be weaponized immediately for other purposes such as mounting DDoS attac...
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...
A QUICk Introduction to HTTP/3
HTTP/3 is the newest iteration of the HTTP protocol that improves web security and performance...
The Building Wave of Internet Traffic
The Novel Coronavirus, and the resulting viral respiratory illness caused by it, COVID-19, is changing our world. As much as possible, people around the world are practicing social distancing. This means working remotely for a large number of people, possibly...
HTTP Cache Poisoning Advisory
Summary On January 14, 2020, CERT CC published an advisory warning of the potential use of Content Delivery Networks CDNs to cache malicious traffic. Akamai acknowledges this issue and has been aware of similar research in the past. This advisory...