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Holiday Readiness, Part Four: What You Should Be Thinking About One Month Out — Monitoring and Alerting
November is here. Now it’s crunch time. Hopefully, implementing the solutions in parts one through three of this series has kept you busy over the last few months. In those articles, we covered security, flash crowd management, disaster recovery, and performance optimization checklists. If you ar...
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...
Akamai Summarizes Service Disruption (RESOLVED)
At 15:45 UTC on July 22, 2021, a software configuration update triggered a bug in our Secure Edge Content Delivery Network impacting that network's domain name service DNS system the system that directs browsers to websites for that specific service. This caused a disruption impacting availabilit...
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...
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...
SOGo and PacketFence Impacted by SAML Implementation Vulnerabilities
Part of Akamai's incident management process for vulnerabilities in third party software involves verifying potential impact in other systems using the same or similar libraries...
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...
Akamai Titans 2020: Celebrating Outstanding Achievements
To Akamai's Co-Founder Danny Lewin, calling someone a "Titan" was the highest praise he would give. Danny himself was a remarkably talented and hard-working leader whose heart, passion, and spirit still inspire us...
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...
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?...
Akamai Prolexic and Equinix Cloud Exchange Bring DDoS Defense Closer to the Origin
In terms of cyberthreats and digital risk, 2020 has been all about distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks...
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...
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...
WarezTheRemote: Turning Remotes into Listening Devices
Television remotes have gotten little attention as a potential attack vector – despite being one of the most common household devices you can find...
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...
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'...
Deployment Diversity for DNS Resiliency
Similar to diverse workforces performing at a higher level, diverse network service deployments perform at a higher level that is increasingly important as the Internet continues to augment our reality. Akamai has 20 years of edge service deployment experience. Akamai's Intelligent Edge has prove...
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...
Zero Trust and the Identity
Digital transformation is occurring faster than most people realize, and is impacting every component of the IT organization. Some of the many catalysts include users and applications moving outside the traditional perimeter, users accessing applications that are anywhere, and utilizing many...
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...
When Looking for SWIFT Audit Guidelines, Beware of the Customer Security Controls Framework
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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...
Revealing Guardicore Reveal™
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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...
Introducing More Granular Controls for AI Bot Traffic
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Your DNS Is Hiding in HTTPS — This Is Why It Matters
Discover why unmanaged DNS over HTTPS DoH creates security visibility gaps and how a controlled DoH strategy restores visibility without compromising privacy...
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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Smash and Grab at Scale: Agentic AI Is Reshaping the Threat to Commerce
The SOTI Security report examines how agentic AI is disrupting commerce security, scaling API abuse, and driving up infrastructure costs...
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...
The Cloud Giants Are Architecting an Agentic Future They Can’t Run
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