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Akamai Managed Security Service: New Expert Help to Protect from Attacks
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Attack Superhighway: A Deep Dive on Malicious DNS Traffic
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Akamai’s Perspective on February’s Patch Tuesday 2023
Every Patch Tuesday stirs up the community. Read Akamai's insights and recommendations for February 2023. Learn what to focus on, and patch, patch, patch!...
7 Key Takeaways for Financial Services from Recent Research
Although the financial services cybersecurity programs are some of the most mature in the world, cybercriminals continue to find ways to revitalize old attacks...
On-Ramping Traffic to a Cloud-Based Secure Web Gateway
Though cloud-based secure web gateways SWGs eliminate many problems, it’s important to select the right approach to on-ramping traffic based on use case and protection level...
Improve URL Redirects with EdgeWorkers and EdgeKV
Use Akamai EdgeWorkers and Akamai EdgeKV to make intelligent redirect decisions...
What’s New for Developers: October 2022
Read about our new Postman collections, the latest Akamai PowerShell release, our improvements to Edge Diagnostics, and how to quickly integrate Linode with Akamai...
Who’s Scanning the IPv6 Space? And, Frankly, Why Do We Even Care?
Securing IPv6 is no longer optional, it's a necessity. In this first of its kind empirical study on the vulnerability scanning landscape of IPv6, you'll learn the challenges and differences between IPv6 and IPv4 to be better prepared for the future...
Akamai’s Perspective on October’s Patch Tuesday 2022
Every Patch Tuesday stirs up the community. See Akamai's October insights and recommendations on what to focus on, and patch, patch, patch!...
FritzFrog: A New Generation of Peer-to-Peer Botnets
Guardicore has discovered FritzFrog, a sophisticated peer-to-peer P2P botnet that has been actively breaching SSH servers since January 2020...
DDoS in Financial Services: What to Know and What to Do
Akamai explores trends of recent application-layer DDoS attacks across the Financial Services industry...
It’s Time to Protect Every SIM
Ensuring the security of billions of mobile devices is a priority. Learn how Akamai aims to protect and secure every SIM as we continually adapt to new threats...
Is Your Security Strategy Focused?
Strategic security leadership is the overarching recommendation in “How to Respond to the 2022 Cyberthreat Landscape,” a new report from Gartner®. Download your complimentary copy in this blog...
Risky Business: Determining Malicious Probabilities Through ASNs
Akamai researchers have analyzed ASNs to determine some shocking stats about the state of malicious IPs and where they are from...
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...
Exceptional Brand Experiences Go Far Beyond the 30-Second Super Bowl Ad
Super Bowl LVI is almost here, and with that comes one of my favorite pastimes: watching the commercials! And you know I’m not alone — 30% of viewers tune in to the big game primarily to see the commercials, upping the pressure on CMOs to “get it right.” But winning the hearts and minds of the mo...
Why You Shouldn't Tie IP Addresses to Tokens
Locking tokens to the client IP address might seem like a good way to prevent content theft, such as sharing of authenticated URLs that include tokens. It might even appear to work in small-scale test environments. However, the internet has evolved to a point where it’s quite common for clients t...
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 ...
Secure Your Kubernetes Clusters to Stop Ransomware
While containers offer speed and flexibility that have not been possible before in the data center, they are also exposed to security threats such as ransomware, cryptomining, and botnets...
How to Get Started With Application Security
With a comprehensive security stack, Akamai’s application security solutions defend your entire ecosystem from threats. But before you can reap the benefits that come with application security, you need to create a configuration with Akamai’s APIs. Our Developer Advocacy team is here to walk you...
Akamai Is Now a Cybersecurity Powerhouse
Over the past five years, we’ve grown Akamai’s security portfolio from point solutions into a comprehensive platform that provides defense in depth to address our customers’ biggest threats. The unique breadth of our defenses is important to our customers who want the most effective security...
Software-Defined Networking Concept Adoption at Akamai
Akamai engineering has adopted new technology concepts to enhance and expand routing capabilities at the edge. Previously, Akamai’s traffic-steering capabilities were mainly focused on DNS-based routing. In this article, we would like to give you an in-depth look at how Akamai has embraced new...
SMB Worm Indexsinas
New details in the Indexsinas SMB worm, also dubbed NSABuffMiner...
Platform Update: Akamai Boosts Edge Application Power, Expanding Possibilities for Developers
Welcome to the Akamai Platform Update -- two days of new capabilities and innovations across our edge technology and security product portfolios...
Now Available: EdgeKV Distributed Key-Value Store
We're excited to announce the availability of EdgeKV, a distributed key-value store database that enables EdgeWorkers to leverage data stored at the edge when deploying custom code across our serverless computing platform...
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...
A/B Testing, Now with EdgeKV
Now that we've written the framework of our code, let's layer in EdgeKV EKV, our distributed key-value store database...
Building a Cross Team Culture
At Akamai, we all contribute to our diverse, inclusive, and engaged culture. One in which we each have a voice and are empowered to have a meaningful impact on our business and its direction. It's by fostering this culture across teams that we're able to achieve the company's guiding principles...
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...
Smart DNS: Emerging Requirements for DNS Encryption
This blog post -- the fourth in a series -- will discuss how smart DNS resolvers can enhance ongoing ISP and MNO network transformation efforts, such as the transition to 5G, better integration of Wi-Fi, and new network designs that optimize the edge to improve service delivery and network...
Research & Academic
We introduce a novel machine learning approach that uses network flows to generate application-level representation of public and private cloud networks. This will greatly simplify the journey to a micro-segmented network...
Evading Link Scanning Security Services with Passive Fingerprinting
By Gal Bitensky, Executive Summary Link scanners are a critical component in multiple classes of security products including email security suites, websites that suggest direct inspection of a suspicious link, and others. Behind the scenes, these services use web clients...
Don't Let DDoS Extortionists Deliver a KO Punch
Since mid-August, a variety of threat actors and copycats alike have been targeting organizations across all industries globally, threatening impending DDoS attacks unless Bitcoin is paid out. It's apparent, as the campaign rages on, that some businesses must be paying the extortion demands, --...
Safeguard Identity Data at the Source
When your customers create an account on your website or application, they are entrusting their valuable information with you in order to establish a relationship. To maintain that relationship, they need to have faith that you will protect their information...
ATA 8.0 Graduation Ceremony
Akamai Technical Academy is a training program designed for people who have an interest and aptitude for technology but may not come from a traditional technical background. Up until now, we have successfully onboarded over 140 incredible people in three Akamai locations: Cambridge MA, US, San Jo...
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...
Unprecedented Levels of Ransom DDoS Extortion Attacks
The FBI has released a flash warning that thousands of organizations around the world, and across multiple industries, have been threatened with DDoS attacks unless they pay a bitcoin ransom. This ransom DDoS, or RDoS, threat was covered by Akamai's Security Intelligence Response Team SIRT in a...
Every Application Should Be Behind a WAF
It's no secret that security threats continue to expand in volume and variety, making headlines on virtually a daily basis. From nation-state attacks, corporate espionage, and data exfiltration campaigns to all-in-one and sneaker bot campaigns, businesses across the globe find themselves dealing...
Abusing the Service Workers API
The Service Worker web API is a powerful new API for web browsers. During our research, we have found several ways attackers can leverage this API to enhance their low-to-medium risk findings into a powerful and meaningful attack. By...
Fake Cozy Bear Group Making DDoS Extortion Demands
A group calling themselves "Cozy Bear" has been emailing various companies with an extortion letter, demanding payment and threatening targeted DDoS attacks if their demands are not met...
Maximizing Onboarding: Giving managers the skills for success
Managing teams come with challenges as well as rewards. Managers drive individual and team performance, and the best managers drive employee connection and engagement. Akamai believes that employees are our biggest asset; by effectively and efficiently integrating them into the...
Enhancing Customer Value, Building Customer Relationships and Strengthening Team Collaboration
Effective communication skills are fundamental to developing both immediate and long term relationships with our customers. How else can we learn the answers to questions such as: "What are our customers concerns, needs, and desires?", "How can we best address their short and long term needs?", A...
In Conversation: Career Development as a Parent
Technology can only continue to thrive with the direct influence of those involved in its evolution. When the experiences of those people are broad, the tech industry benefits from the diversity of what they bring to the table. At Akamai,...
Identifying Vulnerabilities in Phishing Kits
While recently examining hundreds of phishing kits for ongoing research, Akamai discovered something interesting - several of the kits included basic vulnerabilities due to flimsy construction or reliance on outdated open source code. Considering the impact phishing kits have on...
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...
Six Years Since World IPv6 Launch: Entering the Majority Phases
While we still have a ways to go before residual users of IPv4 are truly "laggards", we are at a stage where the use of IPv6 should be considered the norm...
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...
Phishing in the Wild: A New Threat Research Paper
Phishing is an extremely common attack vector that has been used for many years, and the potential impact and risks involved are well known to most Internet users. Despite this, phishing is still a highly relevant attack method being used in the wild, affecting many people. The question is, how c...