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Akamai’s Perspective on March’s Patch Tuesday 2024
Don’t let your pies burn while you read patch notes. March’s 2024’s Patch Tuesday has 60 total CVE, with two critical in Hyper-V...
Noname Security Platform Updates: 3.27 Release
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What’s Next for Akamai’s Cloud Computing Strategy
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The Shift to Distributed Cloud: The Next Era of Cloud Infrastructure
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How to Defend Against Digital Cyberthreats This Holiday Season
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The 2023 Akamai Partner Award Winners: A Spotlight on Success
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Ransomware on the Move: Evolving Exploitation Techniques and the Active Pursuit of Zero-Days
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The Increased Use of Mobile Devices Expands the Threat Landscape
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What the NIS2 Directive Means for Your Business and Your APIs
Learn how implementing a comprehensive cybersecurity program that addresses all aspects of API security can ensure compliance with the NIS2 Directive...
Akamai Cloud Computing Services Pricing Update
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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...
CDN Meets GDN: Akamai Partners with Macrometa
The web needs a CDN; the cloud needs a GDN. What does that mean and why is it important for developers?...
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!...
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...
Ransomware Attack on Airline Industry: Turning Point for India and Others
Cybercriminals are attacking organizations in the APAC region with ransomware. Learn how to implement security strategies to mitigate and recover from attacks...
The Great Christmas Download
Video game downloads and console updates helped game industry traffic peak at 125% above average on Christmas day according to Akamai, which supports more than 225 game publishers globally...
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...
Integrating Akamai mPulse with Consent Management Providers
Akamai mPulse is a real user monitoring solution, providing detailed information about the user experiences delivered by your web applications. mPulse can be configured within your Akamai property to automatically start collecting data from your customer visits. This initial setup will gather the...
Gaming Industry Paves the Way
Currently at $200 billion per year and growing, the gaming industry has grown from humble beginnings in the 1930s during which games like Baffle Ball and pinball were considered a degenerate form of leisure that would lead young men into lives of sin into a massive global phenomenon widely seen a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Edge DNS Secondary Implementation: Order of Operations for NS Zone and Registrar Records
Akamai Edge DNS service delivers edge-based, authoritative domain services for thousands of organizations...
Partnering With Verizon on the 2021 DBIR
By the time you read this post, the 2021 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report DBIR will be published. Akamai has been one of the many partners contributing data to this report for more than half a decade. We greatly value the time, effort, and dedicated data science that goes into providing...
CVE-2020-15915 -- Quest for KACE blind SQLi
At Akamai, the Enterprise Security Red Team ESRT continuously strives to evaluate the security of both our external and internal services...
Finding the Cracks in the Wall - The Hazard of Single Authentication Factor
The use of authentication factors, one of the most fundamental and well understood concepts in information security, enables secure access to applications, services, and networks. It can affect an enterprise's security posture, however, as the drastic increase in data breaches and system attacks...
IPCDump – Guardicore’s New Open-Source Tool for Linux IPC Inspection
IPCdump allows software based firewall developers, researchers, and linux users to explore the Inter-process-communication IPC channels...
Maintaining an Energy-Efficient Edge Platform
Over the past 20 years, we've seen a lot of growth at Akamai. When I started at Akamai, we used to have traffic peaks of almost 200 Mbps. From that fledgling startup, Akamai has now grown to such a scale that we almost doubled network capacity in 2020 and were able to serve peaks of almost 200...
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...
5 Surprising Cybersecurity Features of Guardicore Centra
Check out these features around segmentation and visibility that can help working with Guardicore Centra even simpler...
Distinguishing Among DNS Services Part 1: The Platform
This is Part 1 of a 3-part blog series highlighting some of the distinguishing aspects of Akamai's DNS services, Edge DNS and Global Traffic Management...
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...
Onboarding During A Pandemic: Can It Really Work? New Joiner, Lily Nguyen, Shares Her Experience.
I recently joined the Sales Development APAC team, looking after the Vietnam, Thailand and Hong Kong markets. I'd already had a great impression of Akamai's culture from my interview rounds. But how would the onboarding work? I'd been looking forward to meeting new colleagues in an office...
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...
Metrics That Matter: Continuous Performance Optimization
To attract and retain customers, you must offer an exceptional digital experience. In an increasingly competitive business climate, organizations are fighting to maintain loyalty and keep users engaged online. The cost of switching is low, consumers are transient, and user expectations for how...
Phishing Victims From a CDN's Point of View
Overview Being a Content Delivery Network CDN platform, sometimes you can see fractions of attacks on the wire. In this blog, we will focus on phishing websites that, while not being delivered by the Akamai platform, are referring to or...
Introducing Ability Purge Cache Tag
The new purge by cache tag functionality in Akamai’s Fast Purge is now available to all Akamai content delivery product customers. To get to this point, we went through an exciting, year-long beta with more than 200 participants purging 200,000,000 tags. During this time, we noted some fascinatin...
How-To: Replaying Cellular Network Characteristics on Cloud Infrastructure
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How Akamai’s ExAR Capabilities Contained a LATAM Supply Chain Attack
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Crypto Scam Extensions Masquerade as High-Profile Investors
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From Super Bowl to World Cup: How Akamai Delivers the Perfect Event
Learn why Akamai is at the core of the biggest online sporting events, and how we help you be successful in the most critical moments...
Your OpenClaw Agent Doesn't Sleep. Your Laptop Does. Move It to the Cloud.
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Why Hydrolix Partnered with Akamai to Solve Observability at Scale
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Enhancements to Akamai API Security, Q4 2025
The Q4 2025 Akamai API Security updates help organizations shift security left, improve coverage, and reduce friction...
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...