Akamai Provides Prolexic DDoS Service Impact Update (Status: Resolved)

Akamai experienced an outage for one of its Prolexic DDoS services Routed 3.0 starting at 4:20 AM UTC. We detected the issue immediately, and impacted customers received an error alert within seconds. The impact was limited to Akamai customers using version 3.0 of the Routed service...

Stopping Ransomware and Lateral Movement with Segmentation

Learn how to take on the growing ransomware threat, and the necessity of network segmentation from VP of Cyber Research, Amit Serper...

Akamai Platform Update: New Security Enhancements That Intelligently Automate Application and API Security, Mitigate Online Fraud, and Reduce Burden on Security Professionals

Today is Day 2 of Akamai's Platform Update. Yesterday, we talked about the acceleration of modern app development and how we're empowering users to shift more compute and data to the edge. From the core to the cloud to the edge, the applications and APIs that power modern web experiences must als...

Akamai Platform Update: New Security Enhancements That Intelligently Automate Application and API Security, Mitigate Online Fraud, and Reduce Burden on Security Professionals

Today is Day 2 of Akamai's Platform Update. Yesterday, we talked about the acceleration of modern app development and how we're empowering users to shift more compute and data to the edge...

Platform Update: Akamai Boosts Edge Application Power, Expanding Possibilities for Developers

Welcome to the Akamai Platform Update -- two days of new capabilities and innovations across our edge technology and security product portfolios. Today, we look at our edge technology products, which include edge computing, edge delivery CDN, and other complementary products and services that hel...

Platform Update: Akamai Boosts Edge Application Power, Expanding Possibilities for Developers

Welcome to the Akamai Platform Update -- two days of new capabilities and innovations across our edge technology and security product portfolios...

The Adaptive Security Engine -- A Quantum Leap Forward for Application and API Protection

At Akamai, our mission is to make application and API security highly effective and easy. As part of that effort, we are excited to announce the Adaptive Security Engine -- a new core technology powering Akamai's application and API protection offerings, designed to enable a hands-off approach to...

The Adaptive Security Engine – A Quantum Leap Forward for Application and API Protection

At Akamai, our mission is to make application and API security highly effective and easy. As part of that effort, we are excited to announce the Adaptive Security Engine -- a new core technology powering Akamai's application and API protection offerings, designed to enable a hands-off approach to...

Trusting Locations Bites Us Yet Again

Recently, Microsoft announced the discovery of yet another attack being launched by the now infamous Nobelium group, which has been responsible for numerous successful attacks, including the widespread SolarWinds breach in 2020. Thankfully, this latest attempt was not as impactful as those in the...

Trusting Locations Bites Us Yet Again

Recently, Microsoft announced the discovery of yet another attack being launched by the now infamous Nobelium group, which has been responsible for numerous successful attacks, including the widespread SolarWinds breach in 2020...

How Network Segmentation Simplifies PCI DSS Compliance

Read more about how proper network segmentation can simplify PCI DSS compliance by effectively reducing the number of assets in scope...

Now Available: EdgeKV Distributed Key-Value Store

We're excited to announce the availability of EdgeKV, a distributed key-value store database that enables EdgeWorkers to leverage data stored at the edge when deploying custom code across our serverless computing platform. This solution is fully distributed, meaning it runs in 1,400+ networks and...

Now Available: EdgeKV Distributed Key-Value Store

We're excited to announce the availability of EdgeKV, a distributed key-value store database that enables EdgeWorkers to leverage data stored at the edge when deploying custom code across our serverless computing platform...

The Rapid Resurgence of DDoS Extortion (That Didn't Take Long)

Just when we thought DDoS extortion was fading into the rearview mirror, it's time to circle up the trucks again gas tanks full. Starting last week and rapidly accelerating, we began seeing in our data and hearing firsthand from organizations about a new wave of extortion activity -- new Bitcoin...

How Enigmo Moved Logic from Client to Origin to Edge

By: Hideki Ito Enigmo owns BUYMA, a Japanese fashion C2C marketplace that helps people buy and sell high-quality goods from overseas on www.buyma.com. BUYMA has 8.21 million members and deals with 5.62 million items across 140,000 fashion brands. Its website uses EdgeWorkers to manipulate cookies...

SOGo and PacketFence Impacted by SAML Implementation Vulnerabilities

Part of Akamai's incident management process for vulnerabilities in third party software involves verifying potential impact in other systems using the same or similar libraries. While following that process when addressing the SAML impersonation vulnerability, CVE-2021-28091, which impacted...

Akamai EAA Impersonation Vulnerability - A Deep Dive

In this post, we cover the technical details of CVE-2021-28091, the vulnerability impacting Akamai's Enterprise Application Access EAA platform. We cover our investigation, remediation and disclosure process for the vulnerability. For an overview of the vulnerability, the impact to Akamai, the...

SAML Implementation Vulnerability Impacting Some Akamai Services

This blog post provides an overview of a vulnerability discovered in Akamai's Enterprise Application Access EAA product which has been patched. This vulnerability could have allowed an actor to impersonate an authorized user when interacting with an application that used Security Assertion Markup...

How Enigmo Moved Logic from Client to Origin to Edge

Enigmo owns BUYMA, a Japanese fashion C2C marketplace that helps people buy and sell high-quality goods from overseas on www.buyma.com...

The Rapid Resurgence of DDoS Extortion (That Didn't Take Long)

Just when we thought DDoS extortion was fading into the rearview mirror, it's time to circle up the trucks again gas tanks full...

SOGo and PacketFence Impacted by SAML Implementation Vulnerabilities

Part of Akamai's incident management process for vulnerabilities in third party software involves verifying potential impact in other systems using the same or similar libraries...

Akamai EAA Impersonation Vulnerability - A Deep Dive

In this post, we cover the technical details of CVE-2021-28091, the vulnerability impacting Akamai's Enterprise Application Access EAA platform...

SAML Implementation Vulnerability Impacting Some Akamai Services

This blog post provides an overview of a vulnerability discovered in Akamai's Enterprise Application Access EAA product which has been patched...

5 Benefits of Network Segmentation

Learn more about how microsegmentation can enable you to achieve granular network segmentation, quickly and securely...

Edge DNS Secondary Implementation: Order of Operations for NS Zone and Registrar Records

This article has been updated to include recent industry trends and information about primary implementations. Akamai Edge DNS service delivers edge-based, authoritative domain services for thousands of organizations. These organizations trust Edge DNS to deliver reliable and performant responses...

Edge DNS Secondary Implementation: Order of Operations for NS Zone and Registrar Records

Akamai Edge DNS service delivers edge-based, authoritative domain services for thousands of organizations...

ThinkPHP Exploit Actively Exploited in the Wild

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It's Official - Akamai is a Great Place to Work

When Akamai Costa Rica won the 'Great Place to Work' award, we were delighted. It's a wonderful achievement that really means a lot to Akamai and to all the collaborators who have worked here. It highlights the great working environment that Akamai have created for us. But it also shines a light ...

Romanian Crypto Mining Infection

While examining my honeypot logs and digging through the newly downloaded binaries last week, I noticed a large compressed file. I figured it would be a crypto miner, typically a tar archive and gzip normally erroneously compressed. I moved the archive over to my test lab and started examining th...

Digital Transformation Usain Bolt-Style: Health Care's Sprint to Modernization

Instead of picking up their phone to schedule a doctor's visit, ring an insurance provider, or call the pharmacy, a patient's first step to getting care is now often the use of an app on their smartphone. There are new ways to order prescriptions, conduct appointments, seek care, and share health...

Why FIDO2 Is the Answer to Better Security

A groundbreaking increase in security incidents is affecting governments around the world. In light of this, the United States issued a formal order to implement a robust set of security measures designed to improve the security of federal systems. In his most recent executive order, President...

Digital Transformation Usain Bolt-Style: Health Care's Sprint to Modernization

In the present age, patients now use smartphone apps to schedule doctor's visits, contact insurance companies, and get prescriptions instead of picking up the phone...

Why FIDO2 Is the Answer to Better Security

A groundbreaking increase in security incidents is affecting governments around the world. In light of this, the United States issued a formal order to implement a robust set of security measures designed to improve the security of federal systems...

Why FIDO2 is the Answer to Better Security

A groundbreaking increase in security incidents is affecting governments around the world. In light of this, the United States issued a formal order to implement a robust set of security measures designed to improve the security of federal systems. In his most recent executive order, President...

How Does Ransomware Actually Spread?

We all know the damage ransomware can do - but how does ransomware actually spread? Our blog shows you how - and how it can be stopped...

Better Real User Monitoring with BoomerangJS and Akamai mPulse

In this blog, we'll walk through a few different snippet insertion methods and available optimizations. Akamai's real user monitoring RUM solution, mPulse, uses a bit of JavaScript code an mPulse snippet and the BoomerangJS library to collect performance data from a user's Web browser. However, t...

XITE Music Video Platform Amplifies Entertainment with Akamai's Help

By: Ralph Aantjes With so many people around the globe seeking socially distanced fun and solace, at-home entertainment has never been more important. XITE aims to offer the best music video experience in the world. Akamai is delighted that this exciting, interactive video platform chose to work...

Now Launching: SOTI?Phishing For Finance

It's that time again -- the launch of the second State of the Internet / Security report of 2021. While Akamai has access to some of the largest security data sets in the world, our viewpoint is limited to the traffic that traverses our networks and is seen by our tools...

XITE Music Video Platform Amplifies Entertainment with Akamai's Help

With so many people around the globe seeking socially distanced fun and solace, at-home entertainment has never been more important. XITE aims to offer the best music video experience in the world. Akamai is delighted that this exciting, interactive video platform chose to work with us to provide...

A/B Testing, Now with EdgeKV

This blog was co-authored by Tim Vereecke, Josh Johnson, and Medhat Yakan This is a blog series about building an A/B test with EdgeWorkers and EdgeKV. Read part one here. In our previous blog, we wrote the base code for our A/B test and stored the data locally. Although this may be convenient fo...

A/B Testing, Now with EdgeKV

Now that we've written the framework of our code, let's layer in EdgeKV EKV, our distributed key-value store database...

Building an A/B Test with EdgeWorkers and EdgeKV

This blog was co-authored by Tim Vereecke, Josh Johnson, and Medhat Yakan This is a blog series about building an A/B test with EdgeWorkers and EdgeKV. Read part two here. When paired with our new EdgeKV distributed key-value database, the Akamai EdgeWorkers serverless platform gives you the...

How Akamai Employees Showed Up for Akamai Earth Month

Photo from an Akamai employee who took her bike out to enjoy nature during Akamai Earth Month. Akamai employees across the globe showed up in full force for Akamai Earth Month 2021 -- our campaign to help employees take small actions at home and in their community to make a difference for the...

How Akamai Employees Showed Up for Akamai Earth Month

Akamai employees across the globe showed up in full force for Akamai Earth Month 2021 -- our campaign to help employees take small actions at home and in their community to make a difference for the planet...

Partnering With Verizon on the 2021 DBIR

By the time you read this post, the 2021 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report DBIR will be published. Akamai has been one of the many partners contributing data to this report for more than half a decade. We greatly value the time, effort, and dedicated data science that goes into providing...

Visualize and Analyze Bots with Real User Monitoring

You interact with more than just customers on your website. Bots make up a disproportionate amount of traffic, which can skew human behavior analysis data -- and cause you to make the wrong business decisions. In fact, one Akamai customer with 30% of total traffic from bots noticed a huge gap in...

Visualize and Analyze Bots With Real User Monitoring

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Visualize and Analyze Bots with Real User Monitoring

You interact with more than just customers on your website. Bots make up a disproportionate amount of traffic, which can skew human behavior analysis data -- and cause you to make the wrong business decisions...

Why Developers Are Writing Apps on Our Edge Platform

A lot of companies talk about edge computing today, but at Akamai, we've been doing it for more than 20 years. We were the first company to offer edge computing services, beginning in 1999 with advanced metadata, an XML-based language used to enable a variety of capabilities on our edge platform ...

Why Developers Are Writing Apps on Our Edge Platform

A lot of companies talk about edge computing today, but at Akamai, we've been doing it for more than 20 years...