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Observed Changes to the Threat Landscape in 2020
Reflecting on the cybersecurity threat landscape in 2020, we can't overlook the massive changes that landed on us. Global security attacks increased at a significant pace between 2019 and 2020, and the COVID-19 pandemic only deepened these troubling conditions...
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...
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...
Stacking CDNs for Improved Performance and Security
I recently worked with a client whose large e-commerce site was hosted with a popular cloud-based commerce solution. Its business was growing rapidly into new geographic markets, and it was not satisfied with the embedded content delivery network eCDN that was bundled with the cloud solution. We...
Streaming Traffic Peaks During Biden Inauguration
Live news streaming traffic during the Biden inauguration ceremony on January 20 peaked at 12 Tbps on the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform. The peak, which occurred as now-President Biden was taking the oath of office just before 12 PM ET, is roughly 8x higher than what we typically see for mid-d...
Emotet: A Year in the Life of a Malware
Emotet malware has been around since 2014, but 2020 saw a resurgence of attacks. In September 2020, Emotet affected 14% of organizations worldwide. So, what is Emotet? And why is it so dangerous?...
Cyberweek 2020 Attracted Both Online Shoppers and DDoS Attackers
2020 has shown both record-busting bps and pps attacks and the most prolific DDoS extortion campaign recorded by Akamai...
What's New in Web Security
With Akamai's web security portfolio, the top focus this October is on the web application firewall WAF, with exciting new capabilities: API Discovery and Adaptive Security Profiles...
Visualize Visitor Prioritization in Real Time with mPulse
The internet has become one of the most important access points in our daily lives. Unexpected surges in demand can slow web pages and create service outages for unprepared websites. A poor user experience leads to dissatisfied customers, making it more critical than ever to visualize and control...
Edgeworkers Use Story: Creating High-Performing, Individualized Campaign Responses in Online Retail
As campaigns and digital experiences become more individualized, they can create a challenge for delivering content to consumers at the highest velocity. Having each paid search, social media, and email marketing campaign add unique query string parameters to requests is critical for tracking the...
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...
How Criminals Attack the Games Industry
If you work in the video games industry, it's already obvious that security is a challenge, and criminals are a threat. But how much do you know about how the criminal economy works? What actually motivates them? What specific methods do they use? And how do they interact with one another?...
How Criminals Attack the Games Industry
If you work in the video games industry, it's already obvious that security is a challenge, and criminals are a threat. But how much do you know about how the criminal economy works? What actually motivates them? What specific methods do they use? And how do they interact with one another?...
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...
Akamai Mitigates Sophisticated 1.44 Tbps and 385 Mpps DDoS Attack
always surprises me how easily a community can adapt to a new situation or reality. What was once considered an outlier or even an unimaginable situation can quickly become our new normal. For those of us focused on protecting enterprises from threats, that also couldn't be more accurate...
DNS as Code
Infrastructure as Code IaC and Continuous Delivery methods have become increasingly popular amongst development and operations teams as a means of maintaining high-performing websites...
A QUICk Introduction to HTTP/3
HTTP/3 is the newest iteration of the HTTP protocol that improves web security and performance...
Working Together to Manage Global Internet Traffic Increases
As businesses and consumers around the world adjust their routines amid the various COVID-19 restrictions, the internet is being used at a scale that the world has never experienced. In addition to millions of people who are now working from...
How I Avoided a Recruiter Scam
Recruitment scams are a serious, but often overlooked risk to job seekers. Those responsible for these schemes often play on the victim's stress levels or professional ego, by using authority to offer something that could be life changing, often with large salaries. I've personally experienced a...
Streaming and Security: In Conversation With Smita Aeron
People from around the globe are looking for instant and uninterrupted access to streaming services, on any device and in any location. But delivering high-quality streams that can easily scale to meet audience demand is no easy task. To better...
Akamai Foundation and Social Responsibility
Recently, at Akamai, we launched the Akamai Foundation, to continue to reach a broader, more diverse range of young people with quality Science, Technology, Engineering and Math STEM education. We believe that this work is a vital part of securing...
Phishing Detection via Analytic Networks
As mentioned in previous Akamai blogs, phishing is an ecosystem of mostly framework developers and buyers who purchase kits to harvest credentials and other sensitive information. Like many framework developers, those focusing on phishing kits want to create an efficient...
Enhancing video streaming quality for ExoPlayer - Part 1: Quality of User Experience Metrics
The online video player landscape is fragmented with a wide variety of players across a mix of popular platforms. In the world of HTML5-video players in browsers, there are a number of open-source solutions e.g., hls.js, dash.js, Shaka Player, as well as commercial offerings which include Akamai'...
From the Core to the Edge: 3 Security Imperatives and the Evolving Digital Topology
The breathtaking pace at which everyone and everything is becoming connected is having a profound effect on digital business, from delivering exceptional experiences, to ensuring the security of your customers, applications, and workforce...
Protecting Your Website Visitors from Magecart
Learn mitigation options that prevent your site from JavaScript skimmer code threats and protects your customers...
Domain Name Consolidation: Observations From the Field
The market and marketing of Web property domain names is changing. Companies prefer to promote top level domains TLDs, have the option of selecting brand-relevant domain extensions e.g. SaaS.com, and no longer need country-relevant domains to optimize search engine result rankings...
Demystifying API Rate Limiting
APIs are the “digital glue” that integrates and connects infrastructure, services, devices, and users. With the proliferation of APIs in almost every organization, it‘s essential to have a mechanism in place to manage and govern them. That’s why we introduced Akamai API Gateway, which makes it...
How-To: Add Timing-Allow-Origin Header to Improve Your Website Performance Measurements
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Introducing Web Security Analytics
Every security team knows that the success of any security product relies heavily on the ability to maintain an optimal security configuration. Any misconfiguration can result in malicious or undesired traffic reaching the application, or worse - legitimate traffic being blocked. In addition, it...
Illuminating the Path to Digital Maturity
Research By Akamai and Forrester Sheds New Light on Digital Experience Challenges and Opportunities Nearly every business today is striving to create and deliver digital experiences that stand apart. But it's no small task turning those visions into reality. Moreover,...
Retailers capitalize on mobile experiences to generate record revenue during Black Friday and Cyber Monday
The results are in, Black Friday and Cyber Monday broke all records in 2017 as the total revenue for these days exceeded $11.5 billion. Anticipating that more consumers would shop online, retailers invested in digital experiences and geared up for the holidays by i stocking fewer items in stores ...
The Bondnet Army: Questions & Answers
The following is a select list of questions and answers that we hope will shed more light on the botnet...
Yes, My Name is ||
Different cultures and nationalities have different naming conventions; I came from a one that led me to face the universe with a personal name "Or". I fact, my name has different meanings in different languages. In English the meaning of "Or" is function word that indicate alternatives and in...
Redirecting On the Edge
On the web, every second counts. Service engineers and operations teams are looking for ways to save milliseconds from web pages' load times. One of the simpler ways to squeeze better performance from web pages already using a Content Delivery Network CDN is to move the redirection responses from...
Not the Coyote, but the Road Runner: The Reality of Autonomous AI Attacks
Autonomous AI security threats aren't novel super-weapons. They're relentless, low-tech attacks that never stop. Learn why traditional defenses fail...
CVE-2026-66066: Defending Against the “KindaRails2Shell” Pre-Auth RCE
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How Partners Can Defend the Network and Ease AI Anxiety
Learn how Akamai Guardicore Segmentation empowers partners to ease customer AI anxiety and contain machine-speed exploits with automated microsegmentation...
CVE-2026-63030 and CVE-2026-60137: Mitigating a Critical Unauthenticated RCE Chain in WordPress
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Langflow Exploited to Build Custom DDoS Gafgyt Botnets
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Adaptive AI for Detecting Modern DGA Attacks
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The Hidden Latency Tax in Retail Personalization
Every personalization decision adds latency that has a measurable cost in conversions and order value. Learn where that cost comes from — and how to avoid paying it...
DNS Is Your Most Critical — and Most Misconfigured — Security Control
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Secure Identity at the Edge: Akamai Partners with Auth0
The Akamai and Auth0 partnership secures identity at the edge by combining edge intelligence and adaptive authentication to stop fraud and enhance user trust...
One Is a Fluke, 3 Is a Pattern: MCP Back-End Vulnerabilities
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Observability for Akamai Cloud: Get Started with Akamai Cloud Pulse
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