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!...

IDC MarketScape Names Akamai a Contender in Worldwide Public Cloud IaaS

Akamai’s inclusion as a Contender in the "IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service Vendor Assessment" demonstrates the strength of our cloud computing services...

Magecart Attack Disguised as Google Tag Manager

Magecart skimmers constantly evolve. Recent attacks aimed at stealing sensitive customer information illustrate the need for comprehensive security solutions...

Akamai Cloud: The World’s Most Distributed Cloud Platform

Introducing Akamai Connected Cloud, the massively distributed edge and cloud platform for cloud computing, security, and content delivery...

Managing Hype Events to Delight Customers, Not Bot Operators

Learn how to prepare for your hype event so you ensure your goods are available for your loyal customers … and not bots...

Akamai Recognized as a 2023 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers' Choice for Cloud WAAP

Customers rate Akamai as a 2023 Customers' Choice for Cloud WAAP for the fourth consecutive year on Gartner® Peer Insights.™...

4 Key Takeaways from the Akamai Retail Reimagined Bootcamp Indonesia

Read about insights gleaned from the recent Akamai ecommerce bootcamp in Indonesia on how to build growth in a post-pandemic economy...

Feature Spotlight: Kubernetes Enforcement

Akamai’s new enforcement capabilities for K8s environments provides segmentation for applications and blocks lateral movement to, from, and inside K8s clusters...

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...

Killnet Targets Healthcare — What You Need to Know, What You Need to Do

As the war in Ukraine continues to heat up, the war against cyberattacks at home also intensifies as pro-Russia group Killnet targets healthcare organizations...

Can't Wait to Shut You Down — Remote DoS Using Wininit.exe

Akamai researchers explore a new vulnerability that can be exploited to lead to denial-of-service attacks against Windows machines...

Introducing Malware Protection for Scanning File Uploads

With Malware Protection, you can scan once at the edge and prevent malware from draining your time and budget...

Beyond CWV: 11 More Performance Metrics to Monitor, Part 3 of 5

Learn the differences between synthetic tests and real user monitoring, and discover 11 web performance metrics beyond the Core Web Vitals — and how to use them...

Exploiting a Critical Spoofing Vulnerability in Windows CryptoAPI

Akamai researchers have analyzed a critical vulnerability in Microsoft's CryptoAPI that would allow an attacker to masquerade as a legitimate entity...

SEO Need-to-Knows: Google’s Core Web Vitals, Part 2 of 5

Learn about Google's Core Web Vitals — LCP, FID, and CLS — and how improving them can enhance your users’ experience and SEO ranking...

What’s New for Developers: 2022 Recap

Read the year-end review of developer highlights for 2022...

Resource Limit Increases for EdgeWorkers Yield Big Results

Read about how EdgeWorkers reduced errors resulting from resource limit constraints — unlocking even more opportunities for businesses...

Improving Popularity Rankings for Better Threat Intelligence, Part 1

AkaRank can overcome biases in current domain popularity lists and help ensure the best threat coverage and user experience...

Akamai’s Perspective on January’s Patch Tuesday 2023

Every Patch Tuesday stirs up the community. See Akamai's insights and recommendations on what to focus on, and patch, patch, patch!...

What Challenges Will 2023 Bring for Cyber?

In 2023, the tech industry must address workforce diversity, manage cyber risks and regulations, and understand how innovation can challenge cyber resiliency...

3 Ransomware Questions Every Security Leader Should Be Able to Answer

Read about how organizations need microsegmentation to identify and remediate ransomware attacks, and the ransomware questions they need to answer...

Building an Effective Bot Management Strategy

Effectively managing bot traffic requires a combination of strong detection and response strategies. Here, we explore Akamai’s methods for implementing both...

Boost Your Page Load Times with Performance Engineering, Part 1 of 5

Get up to speed with web performance, the Core Web Vitals, and other metrics to increase your revenue and rank your page higher on Google...

Emulating KmsdBot’s Command and Control and Examining Its Attack Traffic

Read about the global impact of KmsdBot, a botnet that hit our honeypot earlier this year, and why the evidence is pointing toward it being a DDoS for hire...

Careful Workload Placement Can Create Cloud Cost Savings

Optimizing the cost-effectiveness of cloud infrastructure requires the careful placement of workloads in the environments best suited to their execution...

Akamai’s Perspective on December’s Patch Tuesday 2022

Every Patch Tuesday stirs up the community. See Akamai's December insights and recommendations on what to focus on, and patch, patch, patch!...

Why Do I Need Zero Trust on My Endpoint If I Have EDR/XDR?

Do you need a Zero Trust solution if you have EDR/XDR installed? The short answer is yes — you need both...

You’ve Crossed the Line — Disturbing a Host’s Rest

Akamai researchers explore two new vulnerabilities that can be exploited to lead to denial-of-service attacks against container and session services...

Measuring User Experience with Real User Data

Use data from real users to improve the user experience UX of your site or app, and draw on real behavior and outcomes for effective UX decision-making...

Akamai Welcomed Partners to a Memorable Asia-Pacific and Japan Partner Summit

Learn about the recent Akamai APJ Partner Summit 2022, including new revenue opportunities for our partners – and the awards we gave...

An Overview of MS-RPC and Its Security Mechanisms

MS-RPC is a widely used protocol, but not much security research is done on it. In this blog, see an overview of MS-RPC and their security mechanisms...

Is Stopping a Ransomware Attack More Important Than Preventing One?

Microsegmentation can stop a ransomware attack from moving laterally across your organization and prevent malicious behavior...

Elevate Streaming Media with EdgeWorkers and Macrometa Stream Workers

Elevate players’ gaming experiences with Akamai EdgeWorkers and Macrometa Stream Workers...

Not Every Cloud Is Meant for Every Workload

Understanding which cloud platforms are the best fit for which workloads can maximize your return on investment and your customers’ output...

A Closer Look at Ransomware Attack Trends in APJ

Read about the surge of ransomware as a service RaaS cyberattack trends in APJ, and the infamous and prolific Conti group’s role in them...

Accidentally Crashing a Botnet

As part of our research into the cryptomining botnet kmsdbot, we rendered it useless...

Expanding API Security Awareness at API World

API security should be a primary concern for organizations. Learn about the three principles of APIs to help protect against attacks...

Enemy at the Gates: Analyzing Attacks on Financial Services

Financial services is an often attacked vertical, but to what extent and how? This blog post will cover several security issues affecting this industry...

Audience Hijacking ? A Retailer?s Grinch This Holiday Season

Understand the significant threat that audience hijacking poses to customer online buying journeys and retailers? revenue this holiday season...

Wartime Sparks Unpredictable Shifts in DDoS Targeting

DDoS cyberattacks targeting European customers on the Akamai Prolexic platform are increasing worldwide, In response, Akamai unveiled its new DDoS solution...

Manage Akamai Features at the Edge with EdgeWorkers and EdgeKV

EdgeWorkers and EdgeKV lets you set feature flags that tailor content to different website visitors...

Four Steps: Effective API Security Using a Digital Bonding Strategy

Focus on API security as part of your digital bonding strategy, because APIs are already connecting your business activities...

Akamai Is Delighted to Partner with Teneo and Bytes Software Services

Akamai?s partnerships with Teneo and Bytes Software Solutions help us to adapt, grow, and innovate in an ever-changing landscape...

Akamai Is Delighted to Partner with Teneo and Bytes Software Services

Akamai’s partnerships with Teneo and Bytes Software Solutions help us to adapt, grow, and innovate in an ever-changing landscape...

What’s New for Developers: November 2022

Read about the EdgeGrid PHP client update, EdgeWorkers news, the Terraform Provider 3.0 release, and the new Build, Deliver & Secure video series...

SD-WAN Integration: Routing Traffic to Optimize Network Performance

Optimize network performance with SD-WAN integration to automatically route traffic to the nearest Akamai Secure Internet Access point of presence...

Highly Sophisticated Phishing Scams Are Abusing Holiday Sentiment

The holiday season is around the corner, which means phishing season is too. Akamai Security Research details the new ways adversaries are abusing the holidays...

Akamai’s Perspective on November’s Patch Tuesday

Every Patch Tuesday stirs up the community. See Akamai's November insights and recommendations on what to focus on, and patch, patch, patch!...

Tackle Your Cloud Challenges, One Scenario at a Time

Forrester’s quick start cards cover 18 common issues with cloud migrations and operations, and suggest actions to mitigate each one...

KmsdBot: The Attack and Mine Malware

Akamai security research has observed a new malware: a cryptominer with dreams of DDoS functionality. Read about kmdsbot in this blog...