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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...
Attack Campaigns Ramp Up for Organizations Down Under
DDoS and AppSec attacks impacting the ANZ region Australia and New Zealand have been in the headlines of late, with several high profile companies seeing prolonged outages and leading to speculation as to whether the region is being specifically targeted? Let’s take a closer look at the types of...
Making the Internet Resilient: Part One
Think how many websites you visit or videos you stream. Do you check your bank account or transfer money, download apps, play music, share updates on social media, or use the internet for any of the thousands of other digital experiences it enables every day?...
The Impact of Third-Party Scripts on the Facebook Outage
A lot has already been written about the Facebook outage earlier this week. In case you missed it if that’s possible, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp were all down for several hours on Monday. Facebook provided an update on the cause of the outage late Monday, citing a...
Forrester: Embrace Zero Trust for Australia’s Essential Eight
Understand why it's important to refine your organization’s approach. See how to enact a security model that protects your business and enables growth...
The Power of Why: Rediscovering Akamai’s Purpose
As I took on the role of Chief Marketing Officer of Akamai earlier this year, I set out to inspire and challenge our teams to build an impactful global campaign that showcases not just what we do, but what we make possible. What quickly became clear is that to be authentic in talking about what w...
Holiday Readiness, Part Three: What you Should be Thinking About Two Months Out—Performance Optimizations
October is here, and that means we are less than two months away from the busiest weekend of the year. Parts one and two of the Holiday Readiness blog series covered topics ranging from security checklists to disaster recovery strategies and flash crowd management. If you haven’t had a chance to...
Holiday Readiness, Part Three: What you Should be Thinking About Two Months Out?Performance Optimizations
October is here, and that means we are less than two months away from the busiest weekend of the year. Parts one and two of the Holiday Readiness blog series covered topics ranging from security checklists to disaster recovery strategies and flash crowd management. If you haven?t had a chance to...
EAA Client Escalation of Privilege Vulnerability on Windows
This post covers the details of CVE-2021-40683 CVSS 6.5, the vulnerability impacting the Akamai Enterprise Application Access EAA Client running on Windows systems, for which Akamai has provided a patch to its customers...
Attacking a Macro Security Problem with Micro-segmentation
Ransomware is everywhere. And the shift of workloads to the cloud and employees to work-from-home models has only expanded the attack surface, creating new opportunities for attackers to leverage. Companies need Zero Trust solutions that not only defend against threat actors gaining access to...
Monitoring Our Hay Storage with Edge Connect and Machine Learning
What do hay storage, Akamai’s Edge Connect solution, and machine learning have in common? We use the serverless machine learning system to keep our hay storage safe and secure...
Akamai Named a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for Web Application and API Protection
This week, Gartner released its new 2021 Magic Quadrant for Web Application and API Protection WAAP report, which replaces the Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls WAF report, and Akamai has been named a Leader. Akamai was named a Leader in the four previous WAF Magic Quadrants...
Autodiscovering the Great Leak
See the most recent research from Amit Serper on a vulnerability in Autodiscover from Microsoft Outlook that affects credential leaks...
What Is a TCP Three-Way Handshake?
The TCP three-way handshake is one of the critical building blocks of the internet. It facilitates the smooth and consistent flow of information across and among different networks without compromising security...
Three Surefire Ways to Boost the Digital Banking Experience
The year 2020 disrupted just about every industry, including retail banking. Locked down at home, consumers were abruptly forced to do all their banking over the internet. The sudden transition profoundly impacted banks and created unprecedented demands on online infrastructure. Some banking site...
Which Online Shopping Experience Should I Try Today?
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...
Gaming Industry Paves the Way
Currently at $200 billion per year and growing, the gaming industry has grown from humble beginnings in the 1930s during which games like Baffle Ball and pinball were considered a degenerate form of leisure that would lead young men into lives of sin into a massive global phenomenon widely seen a...
What Should I Watch Tonight? I Have Tens of Thousands of On-Demand Media Options
When I was a kid in the late 1970s, the ABC Television Network had the top three most watched shows in the United States, and I was one of those viewers. For example, on Tuesday nights, prime time? started for me at 8 PM with Happy Days and was over at 9:30 PM after Laverne & Shirley and Three?s...
DDoS Chart Toppers—BPS, PPS and RPS Greatest Hits
New to the scene, monster-sized botnet Mēris is raising some eyebrows with giant requests per second rps attacks as shared by Cloudflare 17.2M rps, reported August 19, Yandex peaking at 21.8M rps on September 5, and KrebsOnSecurity 2M rps on September 9. Some commentary came in on Slashdot, The...
Learn How Akamai Enables AI Powered Analytics Tools to Reduce Water Losses
The Accelerator Program, a flagship initiative of Akamai India’s Corporate Social Responsibility Trust, enables early-stage innovations for water conservation. Over the past two years, along with our mentoring partner, the International Center for Clean Water ICCW; an initiative of the Indian...
Kinsing evolves, adds Windows to attack list
The campaign was first seen by the Akamai SIRT on February 16, 2021, and appears to be targeting both Windows and Linux systems. The botnet caught our interest because it has shown to be highly active across a diverse set of geographical regions, including the Americas, Europe, and Asia...
Kinsing evolves, adds Windows to attack list
The campaign was first seen by the Akamai SIRT on February 16, 2021, and appears to be targeting both Windows and Linux systems. The botnet caught our interest because it has shown to be highly active across a diverse set of geographical regions, including the Americas, Europe, and Asia...
Capoae Malware Ramps Up: Uses Multiple Vulnerabilities and Tactics to Spread
Recently, there has been a plethora of UPX packed crypto-mining malware written in Golang targeting Linux systems and web applications popping up in the news. The malware’s primary tactic is to spread by taking advantage of vulnerable systems and weak administrative credentials. Once they’ve been...
Confluence Server Webwork OGNL Injection (CVE-2021-26084): How Akamai Helps You Protect Against Zero-Day Attacks
Recently Atlassian has disclosed a critical RCE Remote Code Execution vulnerability in its Confluence server and Data Center products CVE-2021-26084, which might allow unauthenticated users to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable servers...
Confluence Server Webwork OGNL Injection (CVE-2021-26084): How Akamai Helps You Protect Against Zero-Day Attacks
Recently Atlassian has disclosed a critical RCE Remote Code Execution vulnerability in its Confluence server and Data Center products CVE-2021-26084, which might allow unauthenticated users to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable servers...
Akamai’s Flagship Customer Enablement Program, Akamai University, Wins Gold “Excellence in Learning” Award
The Technical Enablement and Education team, part of Akamai’s Global Services organization, has won a coveted Brandon Hall Group Gold award for “Best Customer Training Program,” for Akamai’s flagship customer training and enablement program, Akamai University...
Now Live: On-Demand Learning and Hands-On Labs at Learn Akamai
I’m excited to announce our new all-inclusive Learning Hub as the single destination for all product learning resources at Akamai. This new Hub gives users the ability to choose the method of learning that suits them best, whether that’s reading through technical documentation, exploring our...
Jest Mocks—Unit Testing for EdgeWorkers
In case you haven’t already been working with EdgeWorkers, it allows you to run JavaScript code across more than 4,200 locations for proximity to users and fast application response times. With more and more application functionality moving to the edge, it’s increasingly important to ensure that...
Holiday Readiness, Part Two: What you Should be Thinking About Three Months Out—Capacity Planning
Welcome back to the Holiday Readiness blog series. We hope part one has kept you busy over the past month as you continue to improve your security posture. If you haven’t finished all of the security checklist items, don’t worry — there is still time before Black Friday and Cyber Monday...
Holiday Readiness, Part Two: What you Should be Thinking About Three Months Out?Capacity Planning
Welcome back to the Holiday Readiness blog series. We hope part one has kept you busy over the past month as you continue to improve your security posture. If you haven?t finished all of the security checklist items, don?t worry ? there is still time before Black Friday and Cyber Monday...