Evolving Digital Experiences at the Edge

The modern application has evolved and shifted to the edge. This inevitable adoption is improving the digital experience for end users...

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...

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?...

An update on the impact of OpenSSL CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786 on Akamai's systems

In this post, we share the impact of the OpenSSL vulnerabilities CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786 on Akamai and our customers...

Improve URL Redirects with EdgeWorkers and EdgeKV

Use Akamai EdgeWorkers and Akamai EdgeKV to make intelligent redirect decisions...

DNS Threat Report — Q3 2022

Akamai's visibility into global traffic through Q3 provides insight into phishing campaigns and potential user susceptibility to malware attacks...

Effectively Preparing for the OpenSSL 3.x Vulnerability

With all the noise about the OpenSSL vulnerability, see this blog about how to prepare for mitigation when the patch is released...

Better A/B Testing with EdgeWorkers + EdgeKV

Learn how to use Akamai EdgeWorkers and EdgeKV to create easy-to-control A/B tests...

User-Agent Reduction

Chrome is rolling out changes to the browser’s User-Agent string that will affect how web servers, applications, and CDNs like Akamai gather information about the current user agent such as the browser’s version, device, and platform information...

dhpcd: The Cryptominer That Hid for Four Years

Akamai Researchers have uncovered a long-running attack campaign attack targeting Linux SSH servers that has been running a monero cryptominer...

Akamai’s Prolexic Launches Sixth-Generation DDoS Platform Upgrade

Today, we are excited to announce a significant evolution of Akamai’s distributed denial-of-service DDoS protection solution, Prolexic...

Getting It Done: It’s Go Time for Bold Leadership in Sustainability

Sustainability professionals from around the world convened in New York City for Climate Week NYC 2022, exploring the theme of the week to “get it done.”...

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...

Secure Internet Access Is Needed Everywhere

Internet threats have made businesses and people vulnerable. Learn how to maintain effective security against cyberthreats with Secure Internet Access...

Securing Applications in a Multicloud World

Widespread adoption of multicloud architecture presents challenges in securing applications. Learn about the benefits of deploying security controls on the edge...

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...

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...

A Vote of Confidence for Election Security

CISA has released its free Cybersecurity Toolkit to help election authorities prepare for possible threats. Read more to learn about its offerings...

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!...

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...

Cold Hard Cache — Bypassing RPC Interface Security with Cache Abuse

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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...

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...

Holiday Readiness, Part II: Best Practices for Detecting and Mitigating Attacks

Stay one step ahead of bad actors this holiday season with best practices to detect and mitigate attacks...

Edge DNS and the Top-Level Domain Hosting

Akamai Edge DNS offers the scale and functionality to meet ICANN’s intensive requirements for hosting a generic top-level domain gTLD zone in DNS...

Akamai Mitigates Hop-by-Hop Header Abuse Leading to Request Smuggling

Security researchers identified and disclosed a new technique of hop-by-hop header attacks, leading to request smuggling, which Akamai successfully mitigated...

Financial Services Malware Just Won’t Die: What to Do About It?

The continued reemergence of the Emotet malware is keeping cybersecurity professionals on their toes. Zero Trust solutions are here to help...

Akamai’s Response to Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server (CVE-2022-41040 and CVE-2022-41082)

Akamai Security Research has released web application firewall protections for Microsoft Exchange CVE-2022-41040 and CVE-2022-41082...

Akamai Aids India Through Corporate Social Responsibility Partnerships

Akamai’s Corporate Social Responsibility Trust partners with nonprofit organizations to help enhance the lives of people across India...

API Security for DevSecOps

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Flagging 13 Million Malicious Domains in 1 Month with Newly Observed Domains

Threat Intelligence feeds are an integral part of any security strategy. In this new research see how Akamai researchers were able to find 8 million malicious domains every month to further protect our customers...

Flagging 13 Million Malicious Domains in 1 Month with Newly Observed Domains

Threat Intelligence feeds are an integral part of any security strategy. In this new research see how Akamai researchers were able to find 8 million malicious domains every month to further protect our customers...

Akamai Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Web Application Firewalls, Q3 2022

Forrester’s 2022 evaluation of web application firewalls ranks Akamai as a Leader with the top score among all evaluated vendors in the attack detection criterion...

Akamai Turns Up Linode Past 11

Akamai plans to add more than a dozen data centers, equipped with Linode’s full product suite – across North America, APAC, LATAM and Europe by the end of 2023...

6 Key Insights from Akamai India Leadership Industry Summits

What does the future look like for consumer-to-internet and OTT media services in India? Here are six thought-provoking insights from CXOs...

What’s New for Developers: September 2022

Learn about Akamai’s voxel art contest, the updates to EdgeWorkers and EdgeKV demo sites, and how the beta Test Center CLI allows you to test the behavior of configuration changes on your own in this month’s blog...

Purple Fox Rootkit Now Propagates as a Worm

Purple Fox is an active malware campaign targeting Windows machines. Up until recently, Purple Fox’s operators infected machines by using exploit kits and phishing emails...

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...

EDR vs. Segmentation: Understanding the Differences

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Meet Prachi Shah, Senior Service Architect

Senior Service Architect Prachi Shah discusses how customer feedback plays a crucial role in product development at Akamai...

In-App Browsers and Akamai Client-Side Protection & Compliance

Learn how Akamai's Client-Side Protection & Compliance tracks In-App browser injections to make sure sensitive information is kept safe and private...

In-App Browsers and Akamai Client-Side Protection & Compliance

Learn how Akamai's Client-Side Protection & Compliance tracks In-App browser injections to make sure sensitive information is kept safe and private...

Akamai’s Perspective on September’s Patch Tuesday

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

Record-Breaking DDoS Attack in Europe

On Monday, September 12, 2022, Akamai successfully detected and mitigated the now-largest DDoS attack ever launched...

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...

How to Fight Video Piracy: Notes from a Real-Life Battle

Video streaming is increasing and so is video piracy. Learn more about these types of piracy cybercrimes, and how to be proactive in stopping them...

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...

Cyberterrorists Target Record Number of Victims with DDoS Attacks in Q2

In Q2, cyberterrorists targeted a record number of customer locations groupings of assets based on cloud presence or physical data center with DDoS attacks...

Akamai Named a 2022 Gartner� Magic Quadrant Leader for Cloud Web Application and API Protection

Akamai was named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner� Magic Quadrant for Cloud Web Application and API Protection WAAP report, and was positioned highest for Ability to Execute and furthest for Completeness of Vision...

Akamai Named a 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant Leader for Cloud Web Application and API Protection

Akamai was named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Cloud Web Application and API Protection WAAP report, and was positioned highest for Ability to Execute and furthest for Completeness of Vision...