Holiday Readiness, Part I: Best Practices for Maintaining Peak Performance

Preparing for a post-pandemic holiday season means managing for peak application and system performance...

Holiday Readiness, Part I: Best Practices for Maintaining Peak Performance

Preparing for a post-pandemic holiday season means managing for peak application and system performance...

Now Available on GitHub: Akamai CLI Utility v1.0 for Akamai Terraform

With v0.9 of the Akamai CLI for Terraform, application development teams can build on infrastructure as code IaC and maintain rapid development without compromising security...

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...

Mitigating Log4j Abuse Using Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

Learn how Akamai Guardicore Segmentation can help you reveal vulnerable servers and applications, and stop exploitation...

Akamai’s Insights on DNS in Q2 2022

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What’s New for Developers: August 2022

This August’s developer update brings you some of the things we’ve been most excited to tell you about. We’re highlighting Terraform updates and more...

Meet Jessica Scherlag: Senior Manager of Social Media and Engagement

Jessica Scherlag discusses the importance of social media platforms, her unconventional career path, and the benefits of pushing past your comfort zone...

Deploying Akamai MFA at Scale: 6 Lessons Learned

Planning a multi-factor authentication MFA rollout? Take a look at the six lessons we learned when we deployed Akamai MFA...

CVE-2022-30216 - Authentication coercion of the Windows ?Server? service

In this blog, see how an off-by-one error could lead to domain controller access in Microsoft Server Service...

CVE-2022-30216 - Authentication coercion of the Windows “Server” service

In this blog, see how an off-by-one error could lead to domain controller access in Microsoft Server Service...

It’s Time to Protect Every SIM

Ensuring the security of billions of mobile devices is a priority. Learn how Akamai aims to protect and secure every SIM as we continually adapt to new threats...

Meet Tim Vereecke: Technical Solutions Architect

Tim Vereecke, technical solutions architect at Akamai, discusses how he uses a developer-first mindset to find internet performance solutions...

Feature Spotlight: Extending Zero Trust Segmentation to the MacOS

Announcing our new agent for MacOS endpoints. Of all the leading Zero Trust segmentation providers, Akamai is the only vendor to support MacOS...

Akamai Has Addressed Browser-Powered Desync Attacks

On August 10, 2022, security researcher James Kettle presented a set of novel HTTP request smuggling attacks in his Black Hat talk,...

Akamai?s Perspective on August Patch Tuesday

Want the rundown of what to focus on with Patch Tuesday in one place? Check out this blog, and patch, patch, patch!...

Akamai’s Perspective on August Patch Tuesday

Want the rundown of what to focus on with Patch Tuesday in one place? Check out this blog, 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...

Cybersecurity Issues in the Gaming Industry Portend Metaverse Challenges

The metaverse has greatly expanded the threat landscape. As industries gamify, gaming’s cybersecurity issues become a checklist for the future...

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...

India Becomes Top Global Target for API Attacks

An increased adoption of APIs also increases the risk of API attacks. Read about how India has become a top global target for API attacks in 2022...

Largest European DDoS Attack on Record

On Thursday, July 21st, Akamai detected and mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever launched against a European customer on the Prolexic platform...

Power Digital Growth with App & API Protector

Experience “no trade-offs protection” with a free trial of Akamai App & API Protector...

What’s New for Developers: July 2022

This month’s developer update is jam-packed with exciting news, helpful articles, and useful code, including a new Terraform Provider release and much more...

PCI DSS v4.0: Meeting Emerging Needs for Script Monitoring and Management

PCI DSS v4.0 makes Akamai Client-Side Protection & Compliance essential for any customer that processes or transmits cardholder data...

Game On! Rooter Achieves Massive Esports Growth

Learn how Rooter, India’s leading esports platform, achieved massive esports growth, delivering a gripping experience to players and fans alike...

Cybersecurity Is a Team Sport: 3 Takeaways from Israel’s Cyber Week

The future of cybersecurity relies on successful international partnerships and collaboration to ultimately thwart cybercriminals and cyberattacks...

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...

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...

Meet Tedd Smith: Solutions Engineer at Akamai

Meet Tedd Smith, solutions engineer at Akamai. He discusses today’s media-streaming landscape and how he crafts solutions for higher-quality user experiences...

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...

Bloomfield Robotics Wins Funding to Feed People on Earth and in Space

Akamai awarded Bloomfield Robotics $1M in cloud, compute, and security products to grow their AI business and help feed the world...

Akamai?s Observations of Confluence Zero Day (CVE-2022-26134)

The Atlassian Confluence vulnerability is here to stay. See Akamai's research into the stats two weeks after the advisory was released...

Akamai’s Observations of Confluence Zero Day (CVE-2022-26134)

The Atlassian Confluence vulnerability is here to stay. See Akamai's research into the stats two weeks after the advisory was released...

What’s New for Developers: June 2022

Read about our recent Terraform updates and managed database services, our latest Meet the Developer articles, and stream videos on edge computing...

Bots Are Scalping Israeli Government Services

Bots can be used for good, but can also be nefarious. In this post, see Akamai's research on the Israeli Gamken bot copycat...

The Relentless Evolution of DDoS Attacks

Explore how DDoS attacks are practically unrecognizable from those of the past few years thanks to constant innovation in the threat landscape...

Bots Are Scalping Israeli Government Services

Bots can be used for good, but can also be nefarious. In this post, see Akamai's research on the Israeli Gamken bot copycat...

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...

Meet Josh Johnson: Senior Enterprise Architect

A love of technology and coding brought Josh Johnson to Akamai. Learn what he thinks a developer-first approach means for the Akamai developer community...

Panchan?s Mining Rig: New Golang Peer-to-Peer Botnet Says ?Hi!?

Akamai researchers have discovered a new P2P botnet targeting APJ. Read about it here...

Panchan’s Mining Rig: New Golang Peer-to-Peer Botnet Says “Hi!”

Akamai researchers have discovered a new P2P botnet targeting APJ. Read about it here...

Akamai: Protecting Life Online with Secure Internet Access

Easily deliver value-added security services to families and businesses with Akamai Secure Internet Access services for ISPs and MNOs...

10 Years Since World IPv6 Launch

A decade past World IPv6 Launch and we are well through the migration away from legacy IPv4, but still have a long way to go...

The Next Generation of HTTP

The IETF just released HTTP/3, an update to HTTP that leverages new transport protocol QUIC. Learn about how the new RFCs can affect any references to HTTP...

How Akamai Works with Internet Organizations

Learn about a few of the internet organizations, who are developing standards and best practices, that Akamai works with to help foster innovation...

Akamai Protects Against the Atlassian Confluence 0-Day (CVE-2022-26134)

Atlassian has released a security advisory to address a remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2022-26134 that’s affecting Confluence Server and Data Center products...

DNS: The Easiest Way to Exfiltrate Data?

Low throughput DNS exfiltration is a slow and low attack technique that is very hard to detect. Learn how Akamai can quickly detect this in near real time...

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...

What’s New for Developers: May 2022

Read on to get information on Akamai’s new managed database service powered by Linode, to watch a fun video on DDoS attacks, and more...