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The dangers of firewall misconfigurations
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Can Edge Computing Exist Without the Edge? Part 1: The Edge
If the title sounds like a trick question, it really depends on who you ask. Semantically, it seems clear that if you take the "edge" and combine it with "computing" you get edge computing. But if you have been reading headlines, you would be justified in having doubts that the answer is that...
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...
Computing at the Edge
Welcome to the Akamai October 2020 Update - a week of product updates, new features, and innovations. We'll be highlighting a different area of our portfolio each day this week. In today's post, we look at our enhanced edge computing capabilities and how they help developers more effectively and...
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...
Ransom Demands Return: New DDoS Extortion Threats From Old Actors Targeting Finance and Retail
Update 08/24/2020 As mentioned below, the Akamai SIRT has been tracking attacks from the so-called Armada Collective and Fancy Bear actors, who are sending ransom letters to various industry verticals such as finance, travel, and e-commerce. In addition to the...
Watch Your Step: The Prevalence of IDN Homograph Attacks
The internationalized domain name IDN homograph attack is used to form domain names that visually resemble legitimate domain names, albeit, using a different set of characters 1. For example, the IDN...
Parts of a Whole: Effect of COVID-19 on US Internet Traffic
Introduction In our previous post, The Building Wave of Internet Traffic, we looked at the traffic patterns across Europe and the effect the COVID-19 pandemic has had. We examined traffic in Italy, Poland, and Spain, and demonstrated how we observed...
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...
Tech That Makes a Difference: Sustainability
As the Internet grows, so does energy usage. As a result, all large tech organizations have a responsibility to monitor and improve their impact on the environment. At Akamai, we are well aware of the impact we can have, both...
In Conversation: The Women in Network Security
Why does network security matter? On average, there is a hacker attack every 39 seconds. If any of these attacks result in a data breach, they could cost over $150 million, with research suggesting that cyber-attacks could cost businesses over...
In Conversation: It's Never Too Late
There can be barriers to pursuing a career in tech. For many people, the journey isn't straightforward. Many of our Akamai employees have diverse backgrounds and have overcome obstacles to pursue their dream career. Often, the way forward into a...
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'...
Words of Wisdom: Advice for Pursuing a Career in Tech
The introduction of AI into the workplace is creating uncertainty over the future of employment. However, research shows that tech will create "133 million" more jobs before 2022 than it will dissolve, as "new entities in the economy replace obsolete...
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...
The Leaders of the Future: Tech for Growing Minds
Jobs in the STEM and Tech fields are growing at "three times the pace of non-STEM jobs." The rise of technological advances means the tech industry is not slowing down anytime soon. In the next decade, there will be 1...
Guardicore Threat Intelligence Helps Cybersecurity Community Research Attacks and Mitigate Risks
This post discusses how Guardicore Labs helps Guardicore customers and the security community enhance their security posture...
Avoiding Security Misconfiguration
Security Misconfiguration exposes networks to risk on premises and the cloud. What do you need to know to limit firewall security misconfiguration?...
Protecting Your Website Visitors from Magecart
Learn mitigation options that prevent your site from JavaScript skimmer code threats and protects your customers...
Security Response Headers
Security response headers are a critical security capability that all organizations should consider. This blog post is the first in a series that will discuss different security headers and go in-depth with how to configure them for maximum benefit...
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...
Operation Prowli: Monetizing 40,000 Victim Machines
Operation Prowli: Monetizing 40,000 Victim Machines...
Akamai CEO Leighton Calls Cybersecurity 'Fantastic Growth Engine'
Akamai CEO and co-founder Tom Leighton discusses the company's cybersecurity and data protection business. He speaks with Caroline Hyde from the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art on Bloomberg Technology. Source: Bloomberg...
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,...
Stop Treating Your LLMs Like Web Servers
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How Managed Databases Are Transforming Today’s IT Landscape
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Extend Application Security Visibility from Code to Runtime
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Zerobot Malware Targets n8n Automation Platform
The use of Mirai continues. Read how the Akamai SIRT identified active exploitation of vulnerabilities in the n8n automation platform and Tenda AC1206 routers...
Accelerate Digital Service Delivery in Government Agencies
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Adapt, Protect, and Extend: How Partners Can Help Orgs Unlock ROI from AI
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Industrialized Ransomware: Confronting the New Reality
Read about the new ransomware reality and what most security strategies get wrong. Learn how to protect your organization in 2026...
How Akamai Is Powering Trust in Tomorrow’s AI-Driven Ecosystem
Discover how Akamai powers secure, trusted AI interactions by verifying bots and agents, enabling adaptive trust, and supporting new monetization opportunities...
CVE-2025-53841: Guardicore Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Get technical details about a security vulnerability CVE-2025-53841 in Akamai's Guardicore Platform Agent for Windows and clear guidance on mitigation...
Advancing Innovation at the Akamai Greater China Partner Summit 2025
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Defend Post-Quantum Cryptography's “Harvest Now, Decrypt Later” with WAAP
Prepare for a quantum-safe future. Learn how Akamai App & API Protector helps stop the data leaks that fuel “harvest now, decrypt later” attacks...
Scam Alert: Impersonation of Akamai on Telegram
Learn about a persisting scam on Telegram that involves scammers who are pretending to be from Akamai and requesting money...
AI Pulse: The Rise of AI Search Crawlers
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Future-Proofing Retail Security: Preparing for Tomorrow's Cyberthreats
Learn about the emerging cybersecurity threats facing retailers and the advanced technologies needed to build adaptive, future-ready security defenses...
Enhancements to Akamai API Security, Q3 2025
The recent Akamai API Security updates improve visibility, automation, coverage, and compliance across the API lifecycle...
AI Pulse: OpenAI’s Wild Bot Behavior After GPT-5
The AI Pulse series breaks down traffic trends and what they mean for apps, APIs, and businesses. In this post, read how OpenAI’s bots are changing after GPT-5...
Akamai Named a Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for WAAP Six Years in a Row
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The Power of Data Observability: Your Edge in a Fast-Changing World
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Boost the Performance and Security — and Lower the Costs — of AI Apps
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Virtualized (In)Security: How Attackers Can Weaponize VBS Enclaves
Read about Ori David’s presentation at DEF CON 33 and learn how attackers can abuse VBS enclaves, a Windows security feature, for malicious purposes...
These 4 Threats to AI Applications Require New Cybersecurity Strategies
Learn about the four threat categories that today’s cybersecurity teams must address to protect their companies’ AI investments...
Boost EdgeWorker Observability: Set Up Logging With DataStream
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