Akamai Recommendations for Log4j Mitigation

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Livery Delivers a Seamless Low Latency Streaming Experience with Help from Akamai

Our new normal has ushered in the advent of hybrid events — a mix of in-person and virtual events. This has made seamless live streaming with active participation of the audience, both live and remote, more important than ever. Amsterdam-headquartered company Livery is an end-to-end SaaS solution...

Magecart Skimmers Are Alive and Well – Constant Vigilance Is Required

Magecart skimmers are here to stay, and they’re becoming more sophisticated, more creative, and harder to detect. In this post, we reveal a new skimmer infrastructure that targets ecommerce sites all over the world with advanced methods of detection evasion and obfuscation...

CVE-2021-44228 - Patching is Recommended for Evolving Zero Day Vulnerability in Apache Log4j that allows remote code execution (RCE)

Akamai has been monitoring the rapidly evolving developments of CVE-2021-44228. We have been working closely with our customers and internal application teams to mitigate the risks posed by the threat of unauthorized remote code execution. This includes deploying an update to our existing Apache...

CVE-2021-44228 - Patching is Recommended for Evolving Zero Day Vulnerability in Apache Log4j that allows remote code execution (RCE)

Akamai has been monitoring the rapidly evolving developments of CVE-2021-44228. We have been working closely with our customers and internal application teams to mitigate the risks posed by the threat of unauthorized remote code execution. This includes deploying an update to our existing Apache...

CVE-2021-44228 - Zero Day Vulnerability in Apache Log4j that allows remote code execution (RCE)

See how Akamai helped open-source logging library Log4j fight against a critical unauthenticated remote code execution RCE vulnerability and reduce customer exposure...

CVE-2021-44228 - Zero Day Vulnerability in Apache Log4j that allows remote code execution (RCE)

See how Akamai helped open-source logging library Log4j fight against a critical unauthenticated remote code execution RCE vulnerability and reduce customer exposure...

Announcing Property Manager Extensions for the Integrated Development Environment

We’re proud to announce the 1.0 release of the Property Manager extension to Visual Studio Code and Eclipse. With the new Property Manager extension, you can edit and validate Property Manager API PAPI JSON rule trees right from your integrated development environment IDE. It allows you to make a...

Security's Role in Internet Resilience

One aspect of resilience on the internet is that things — notably servers and resources — move around. Sometimes moves are legitimate, such as when a popular site evolves from hosting their own website to moving to a cloud provider to using a CDN to handle the ever-increasing traffic. Sometimes t...

2021 SOTI Security: Year End Review

What a year 2021 has been. Even as the world continues to re-open to various degrees, we?re still feeling the impact from 2020?s move to an almost completely virtual world. Many large companies are shifting to a hybrid model, mixing the ability to work from home with working in the office. Some a...

Wedia, Digital Asset Management Software Provider, Delivers Seamless Digital Experiences with Help from Akamai

Wedia makes it possible for some of the world’s biggest companies to effectively manage, customize, and deliver their marketing assets. Akamai is delighted that this fantastic brand has chosen us to deliver a rich and engaging web experience for its customers while also ensuring the highest level...

2021 SOTI Security: Year End Review

What a year 2021 has been. Even as the world continues to re-open to various degrees, we’re still feeling the impact from 2020’s move to an almost completely virtual world. Many large companies are shifting to a hybrid model, mixing the ability to work from home with working in the office. Some a...

The Magic of ?What if?: The Next Big Leap in Innovation is Coming

In 1962, futurist Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote ?any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.? And indeed, in the nearly 60 years since Clarke made this statement, we have witnessed giant leaps in technology that initially may have seemed, well, like magic. Think about...

Cybersecurity?s Rapid Metamorphosis from Tech Problem to Business Enabler

In March 2020, when businesses enforced a work-from-home policy because of the pandemic, many of us thought the move would last a few weeks or so. How could we have possibly known that the sudden move to remote working would create the now-normal hybrid workforce? Businesses of all types and size...

How to Cultivate a Security-first Approach to Your Business

Businesses of all types and sizes are struggling with complexity. They?re addressing hybrid workforces that need to be secured, digital transformation programs, geographic regulations and data laws, industry regulations, and the list goes on. In the midst of this complexity, organizations have to...

Cyber Monday Web Traffic Up Over 2020

Online retail traffic that Akamai delivered during Cyber Monday was up 5% globally compared to Cyber Monday 2020 and 31% compared to average Monday traffic...

Cyber Monday Web Traffic Up Over 2020

Online retail traffic that Akamai delivered during Cyber Monday was up 5% globally compared to Cyber Monday 2020 and 31% compared to average Monday traffic...

ID&E: Akamai’s Journey of Continuous Improvement

Akamai was founded to give the brightest minds somewhere to grow – and by surrounding ourselves with supportive individuals and an open culture, we can all bring our best, every day. It’s for this reason that our commitment to inclusion, diversity, and engagement is a key cornerstone of how we...

Black Friday Web Traffic Up Over 2020

Online retail traffic that Akamai delivered during Black Friday was up 2% globally compared to Black Friday 2020 and 14% compared to average Friday retail traffic. The modest year-over-year increase can be attributed to the significant rise in 2020 traffic due to COVID-19–related lockdowns and...

DataStream: Real-time Log Delivery for All Akamai Customers

We are pleased to announce that DataStream 2 is now available for all our customers. DataStream 2 provides customers with detailed log data from requests on the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform within minutes. DataStream 2 gives customers unparalleled visibility into events at the Akamai edge and...

Placing Accessibility at Akamai – In Reach

Encouraging and supporting open discussions about disability and mental health at work. We define disability as a condition that affects everyday activities — physically, cognitively, and/or neurologically. In Reach helps the Akamai community understand what disability means in the workplace. As ...

Getting Ready for Some Holiday Shopping? So Are the Bots

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Retail Data Needs Better Security in a Contextual World

Do you remember the first time you made an online purchase? Me neither. I’ve made so many online purchases over the years, and I’ve probably made more in the past 18 months than in the past 5 years combined...

Healthcare Modernization? More Like Building the Plane While Flying It

Anyone running a business is likely familiar with the phrase “building the plane as you’re flying it.” And through the craziness of the past 19 months, many of us lived the phrase, becoming pilots and engineers of our new realities overnight...

Finding My Way as an Akamai Intern

It’s an exciting time to be starting a career in digital – but even more so when it’s at a company like Akamai. An organization driven by a commitment to developing talent within the industry, Akamai is an intellectually rigorous, demanding, and rewarding environment to be in at any level. But fo...

Fighting Video Piracy Is Strengthened by Collaboration

Here’s what I know: My personal email has been “pwned” or stolen at least 18 times. Here’s what I don’t know: if any of the times I have been unable to log in to one of my OTT subscription services was due to my kids sharing our credentials or because of an account takeover — that kill chain that...

RTL Nederland Makes Weather Forecasting Fast, Reliable and Sustainable with Help From Akamai

Media giant RTL Nederland offers a weather app that gives users the ability to get a comprehensive overview of the weather in their location at the click of a button. Akamai is delighted that this exciting media brand has chosen us to deliver a rich and engaging web experience for its viewers whi...

Digging Deeper – An In-Depth Analysis of a Fast Flux Network

Fast Flux is a DNS technique used by botnets to hide various types of malicious activities, such as phishing, web proxying, malware delivery, and malware communication, behind an ever-changing network of compromised hosts acting as proxies. The Fast Flux network concept was first introduced in...

New Updates to Guardicore Centra Boost Zero Trust Posture and Enhance Ransomware Protection

In our update to Guardicore Hunt see how you can enhance your ransomware protections as well as Zero Trust...

Open Finance — 5 Reasons to Consider Akamai

The increased use of smart devices, improved connectivity, and today’s hyper demanding customers are driving the need for digital transformation in the finance sector. Emerging technologies like open banking are creating new opportunities for both incumbent banks and fintechs...

Developers Push Coding to the Edge in Akamai

The first-ever Akamai EdgeWorkers Coding Challenge gave participants the opportunity to harness the power and potential of serverless computing using the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform. Winning developer teams built functions using Akamai EdgeWorkers and EdgeKV products that ranged from DNS...

Redefining Security at the Mobile Edge

During the pandemic, organizations became more geographically dispersed, even if that only means people working from home instead of the office. As businesses begin to open up again, the trend is leaning toward mobility as a means to support a hybrid working environment, in which employees have...

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...

Finding Purpose in Wellness

“Wellness” is something that many employers are racing to embrace. Good for both their organizations and their people, wellness is an investment in creating a happier and more engaged workforce, as well as reducing the effects of stress and burnout. It has the potential to increase productivity,...

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with Ohana

National Hispanic American Heritage Month September 15 to October 15 is a time to recognize the achievements and contributions of trailblazing Hispanic Americans whose legacies have inspired the world. Akamai stands with our American colleagues whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the...

Internet Resilience, Part 2: What It Takes to “Just Work”

One of the greatest signs of the success of the internet as a technology is how little the average person thinks about it. I’m not talking about the content itself. The streaming videos, online shopping sites, news and educational content, workplace productivity tools, and many other pieces of...

Akamai App & API Protector: Maximize Security Through Simplicity

Building incredible digital experiences often involves leveraging serverless edge computing, microservices-based architectures, IaaS environments, client-side functionality, and APIs. These modern development practices, while designed to produce highly personalized, fast, and always-on user...

Keeping Up with Biden Administration Cybersecurity Mandates

With Wednesday’s sweeping cybersecurity mandates issued by the Biden administration, patching Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVEs are top of mind — for both federal and private-sector companies alike — to help prevent damaging intrusions. Intensifying the pressure surrounding the latest rou...

Akamai + Guardicore: End-to-End Zero Trust

Ransomware attacks increased by over 150% in 2020. As criminals find new ways to attack networks and systems, protect work-from-home employees with Akamai...

Holiday Readiness, Part Four: What You Should Be Thinking About One Month Out — Monitoring and Alerting

November is here. Now it’s crunch time. Hopefully, implementing the solutions in parts one through three of this series has kept you busy over the last few months. In those articles, we covered security, flash crowd management, disaster recovery, and performance optimization checklists. If you ar...

Strategy for the Office Anywhere

Organizations must deploy a remote working strategy that suits the office anywhere model CIOs need to demonstrate leadership as we move out of lockdown into a new model of working in which the office is wherever the employee is. It’s time to build on this initial success and embed a remote workin...

Securing the Enterprise Network for the Office Anywhere

During the pandemic, it was reassuring to see businesses demonstrating resilience and enabling remote working for their employees — in some cases, practically overnight. As businesses slowly reopen their doors, it is clear that many things have changed, key amongst them the increasing risks to th...

Your Best Defense Against Ransomware: Akamai + Guardicore

For decades, Akamai has been focused on solving tough problems for our customers. We started by addressing the challenges of the “World Wide Wait,” and quickly started to leverage our edge network’s scale, proximity to users, and expert operations staff to mitigate security threats for our...

Over 25% of Malicious JavaScript Is Being Obfuscated

Last year, Akamai released research on obfuscation techniques being used by cybercriminals to create malicious JavaScript. The code is unreadable, un-debuggable, and as a result, much more challenging to analyze and detect...

What Microsoft Bing’s IndexNow Means for CDN Users

Microsoft Bing today announced the rollout of IndexNow, a new protocol designed in conjunction with Yandex that can allow “websites to easily notify search engines whenever their website content is created, updated, or deleted.” The goal is to reduce the amount of time it takes for search engines...

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...

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...

Akamai MFA in Action: Single Sign-On is Phish-Proof and Simple to Use

Breaking news: we just completed an 850-user pilot with Akamai MFA. In this blog, the first in a series, I’ll explain why we switched to Akamai MFA, how we ran our pilot, and employee feedback so far. Check back for my next blog, when we’re midway through our global deployment. A burglar checks f...

Mitigating CVE-2021-41773: Apache HTTP Server Path Traversal

On September 29, Ash Daulton, along with the cPanel Security Team, reported a path traversal and file disclosure vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.29 to the Apache security team. The issue was fixed within two days, under CVE-2021-41773, and the patch was released on October 4. Apache urged...

Coming Together to Tackle Phishing — For the Greater Good

Every day, Akamai’s Threat Research team tracks and mitigates phishing attack campaigns to help keep our customers — and their reputations — protected. Recently, they tracked an orchestrated attack campaign comprising more than 9,000 domains and subdomains, mainly targeting victims located in...