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Akamai Named an Overall Leader for API Security
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Put Your Best Foot Forward: The Impact of Sneaker Bots on Holiday Shopping
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Guidance on the Recent Critical libwebp and libvpx Vulnerabilities
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Connecting Employees Through the Power of Reuse
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A CEO’s Perspective: Data Transfer Is the Silent Killer
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Exploring Three Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities in RPC Runtime
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Today’s Top 4 IT Investment Trends Across the Healthcare Ecosystem
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Today’s Evolving Cloud Strategies Are Embracing Distributed Computing
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Our Journey with FlexBase Emissions
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Simplify Access Security: Integrate ZTNA with Your Cloud Identity Solution
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Akamai Foundation: Our Values in Action in 2022
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Akamai Managed Security Service: New Expert Help to Protect from Attacks
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How Can We Satisfy the Cloud Needs of SaaS?
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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...
Akamai Wins Brandon Hall Gold Award in Extended Enterprise Learning
For the third consecutive year, Akamai Global Services has won the coveted Gold Award from Brandon Hall Group...
The Internet Architecture Board Takes on Sustainability
Join Akamai and the Internet Architecture Board to make shift happen. Let's work together to make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. GreenWithAkamai...
API Security for DevSecOps
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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...
New Prolexic Partner Megaport Now Live in Australia
As part of Akamai’s focus on serving local market needs, we are thrilled to announce new Prolexic connectivity options via Megaport Elastic Fabric in Australia...
The Kit That Wants It All: Scam Mimics PayPal’s Known Security Measures
Identity theft affects millions of people every year. See this piece on a scam purporting to be PayPal in an effort to gain total identity theft...
What's the Value of a Key-Value Store?
Learn about the benefits and drawbacks of a key-value store: a data structure designed for storing and returning values associated with keys as unique identifiers...
How Akamai’s Employees Help Us Achieve Our Sustainability Goals
Learn about our commitment to environmental sustainability, Akamai Earth Month, and other campaigns that inspire employees to take action to protect the planet...
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 ...
A Log4j Retrospective Part 1: Vulnerability Background
Learn about the widely used Java-based logging library Log4j and how its vulnerability and other capabilities presented a major opportunity to attackers...
Why I’m Proud to Protect Billions of People Worldwide
I decided to pursue a career in IT after working as a support engineer for internal employees as part of my very first job. It immediately opened my eyes to something that I found as interesting as I did shocking: Lots of people don’t understand information security — and what’s more, they don’t...
Livery Delivers a Seamless Low Latency Streaming Experience with Help from Akamai
Our new normal has ushered in the advent of hybrid events — a mix of in-person and virtual events. This has made seamless live streaming with active participation of the audience, both live and remote, more important than ever. Amsterdam-headquartered company Livery is an end-to-end SaaS solution...
CVE-2021-44228 - Patching is Recommended for Evolving Zero Day Vulnerability in Apache Log4j that allows remote code execution (RCE)
Akamai has been monitoring the rapidly evolving developments of CVE-2021-44228. We have been working closely with our customers and internal application teams to mitigate the risks posed by the threat of unauthorized remote code execution. This includes deploying an update to our existing Apache...
New Updates to Guardicore Centra Boost Zero Trust Posture and Enhance Ransomware Protection
In our update to Guardicore Hunt see how you can enhance your ransomware protections as well as Zero Trust...
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...
HTTP/2 Request Smuggling
HTTP Request Smuggling also known as an HTTP Desync Attack has experienced a resurgence in security research recently, thanks in large part to the outstanding work by security researcher James Kettle. His 2019 Blackhat presentation on HTTP Desync attacks exposed vulnerabilities with different...
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...
G2A's Journey to Global Growth, Part 1: Keeping Gamers and Geeks Playing During a Pandemic
Near the end of March 2020, G2A.COM saw its traffic virtually double overnight. The pandemic had just begun, and people were looking for ways to stay entertained and connected under lockdown. Not surprisingly, a lot of people turned to video games, and G2A.COM was one of the first places they wen...
Your Employees Want Passwordless. Isn't It Time You Gave It to Them?
I hate passwords. There, I said it. I dread getting an email from Akamai IT telling me it will soon be time to update my password. I procrastinate until the last possible moment instead of immediately doing what is actually a trivial process. I suspect I'm not alone in my dislike for passwords...
SMB Worm Indexsinas
New details in the Indexsinas SMB worm, also dubbed NSABuffMiner...
NorthSec CTF 2021 Write Up: 'Impurity Assessment Form'
This is a write up of a NorthSec 2021 CTF problem I solved with Allan Wirth @AllanWirth as part of team SaaS which finished in 3rd. It was an extremely creative problem to solve so I wanted to share it here...
ThinkPHP Exploit Actively Exploited in the Wild
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Why Developers Are Writing Apps on Our Edge Platform
A lot of companies talk about edge computing today, but at Akamai, we've been doing it for more than 20 years...
Taking Action This Earth Month
There's a fascinating human phenomenon often studied in the behavioral science field called the intention-action gap...
Phish-Proof Multi-Factor Authentication with Akamai MFA
Today, Akamai announced Akamai MFA, a phish-proof multi-factor authentication MFA service for the workforce that delivers all of the security benefits of FIDO2 with the frictionless end-user experience of a mobile push on a smartphone. Why has Akamai introduced this new service?...
Finding the Best Servers to Answer Queries — Edge DNS and Anycast
While Unicast defines a single destination endpoint for a given IP, Anycast is an addressing technique in which the same IP is advertised from multiple servers simultaneously...
NHS Vaccine Scams: Criminals Still Targeting COVID-19 Anxiety
It's 2021, but the anxiety, fear, uncertainty, and stress caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 is very much alive today...
The Importance of Education in Furthering the Sustainability Agenda
Author: Mark Porter, Director, Supply Chain & International Collaboration, Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance REBA Mark Porter moved to REBA from Rocky Mountain Institute's Business Renewables Center BRC initiative in March 2019. Mark continues to support the BRC initiative across all areas and gro...
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?...
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...
Keeping Emissions in Check During Unprecedented Internet Use
As I reflect on 2020 and the way in which the pandemic affected the business world, what stands out to me is the incredible increase in streaming content consumed on the internet. We've seen launches of some of the highest-profile streaming services to date between late 2019 and 2020. People are...
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...
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, --...