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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...
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...