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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...
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...
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. 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...
Defeating the Pirates
In Akamai's paper, "Inside the World of Video Pirates," we discovered why digital intellectual property theft aka "piracy" is possibly the most misunderstood form of cybercrime facing the TV, sports, and film industries. The paper explored how piracy strategically impacts the industry, how the...
Defeating the Pirates
In Akamai's paper, "Inside the World of Video Pirates," we discovered why digital intellectual property theft aka "piracy" is possibly the most misunderstood form of cybercrime facing the TV, sports, and film industries...
Two Years of Tax Phishing - The Oldest Scam in the Book
Tax scams are some of the oldest scams in a criminal's book, and they're highly attractive to criminals for many reasons...
CISA Emergency Directive 21-03: VPN Vulnerabilities Actively Exploited
On April 20, 2021, the Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA released an alert on the exploitation of Pulse Connect Secure Vulnerabilities with Alert AA21-110A: Exploitation of Pulse Connect Secure Vulnerabilities, as well as Emergency Directive ED...
Ohana — An Impact an ERG Can Make
Akamai's Ohana ERG launched in 2015, along with a number of other ERGs, with the mission to broaden and facilitate the inclusion and contributions of employees of African American, Black, Hispanic, and Latin American descent and association...
Anyone For a Smart Network Slice?
As with any standardization effort, development of 5G specifications accounted for numerous technology trends and new use cases. Network functions were designed for virtualization and automation to enhance operational efficiency and agility. At the same time, smart devices were in the midst of a...
CISA Emergency Directive 21-03: VPN Vulnerabilities Actively Exploited
On April 20, 2021, the Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA released an alert on the exploitation of Pulse Connect Secure Vulnerabilities with Alert AA21-110A: Exploitation of Pulse Connect Secure Vulnerabilities, as well as Emergency Directive ED...
Anyone For a Smart Network Slice?
As with any standardization effort, development of 5G specifications accounted for numerous technology trends and new use cases...
Observed Changes to the Threat Landscape in 2020
Reflecting on the cybersecurity threat landscape in 2020, we can't overlook the massive changes that landed on us. Global security attacks increased at a significant pace between 2019 and 2020, and the COVID-19 pandemic only deepened these troubling conditions. As corporations tried to adapt to...
Supporting Akamai Communities Impacted by COVID-19
While those of us in places like the U.S. are experiencing some relief with access to the COVID-19 vaccine, it has been heartbreaking to see surges in infection, hospitalization, and death across the globe, including the dire situation in India. Bengaluru is Akamai's largest office. And while the...
Supporting Akamai Communities Impacted by COVID-19
While those of us in places like the U.S. are experiencing some relief with access to the COVID-19 vaccine, it has been heartbreaking to see surges in infection, hospitalization, and death across the globe, including the dire situation in India...
Observed Changes to the Threat Landscape in 2020
Reflecting on the cybersecurity threat landscape in 2020, we can't overlook the massive changes that landed on us. Global security attacks increased at a significant pace between 2019 and 2020, and the COVID-19 pandemic only deepened these troubling conditions...
Don't Risk Getting Caught by Kr3pto Phishing Kits
Akamai's threat research team recently published a report showing that a new phishing toolkit named Kr3pto was targeting UK banking customers. A phishing kit is an all-in-one software package that lets just about anyone create and launch phishing attacks designed to steal user data by posing as a...
Don't Risk Getting Caught by Kr3pto Phishing Kits
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Innovative Ways Customers Compute on the Edge
Moving everything closer to the edge is the key to delivering better, faster experiences to people through billions of devices around the world. The idea of edge computing isn't new -- Akamai customers have been caching content at the edge for decades, taking advantage of lower latency and...
Announcing Akamai's 2030 Sustainability Goals
There are 4.66 billion yes, with a B internet users. Rough math will tell us that's three in every five people around the world -- talk about lessening the six degrees. I see head nods and shoulder shrugs. 4.66 billion people? Ehh, that number feels a bit low, especially given the pervasive role...
Announcing Akamai's 2030 Sustainability Goals
There are 4.66 billion yes, with a B internet users. Rough math will tell us that's three in every five people around the world -- talk about lessening the six degrees. I see head nods and shoulder shrugs. 4.66 billion people?...
Innovative Ways Customers Compute on the Edge
Moving everything closer to the edge is the key to delivering better, faster experiences to people through billions of devices around the world...
Akamai Recognized as 2021 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Web Application Firewalls
Akamai has been named a Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Web Application Firewalls for the second time. Gartner defines web application firewalls WAFs as "solutions designed to protect web applications and APIs from a variety of attacks, including automated bots, injection and...
Akamai Recognized as 2021 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Web Application Firewalls
Akamai has been named a Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Web Application Firewalls for the second time...
Building an A/B Test with EdgeWorkers and EdgeKV
When paired with our new EdgeKV distributed key-value database, the Akamai EdgeWorkers serverless platform gives you the ability to do powerful things at the CDN level...
Adapting Security to Work Anywhere
"Working from home 2021" was the title of my talk at The Cyber Security Summit in January, and the strikethrough is important. After a massive shift away from common workspaces in response to the global pandemic, there is no more working remotely or working from home, there is just working. The...
Adapting Security to Work Anywhere
"Working from home 2021" was the title of my talk at The Cyber Security Summit in January, and the strikethrough is important...
Taking Action This Earth Month
By: Akamai Earth Month Guest Blog by Kenda Carlson, Senior Manager, WeSpire There's a fascinating human phenomenon often studied in the behavioral science field called the intention-action gap. It's when you have every intention of doing something, but it just doesn't happen. It's when you say yo...
Taking Action This Earth Month
There's a fascinating human phenomenon often studied in the behavioral science field called the intention-action gap...
Gambling, Streaming Traffic Up During Men's College Basketball Tourney
Baylor wasn't the only big winner in the 2021 men's college basketball tournament. Gambling industry-related web traffic delivered by Akamai jumped 31% over the category average for all of Q4 2020 on March 31st. That was the day after the field of four finalists - Baylor, Houston, Gonzaga and UCL...
Micro-Segmentation Security for the Hybrid Cloud with NVIDIA BlueField DPUs
Looking for software-defined yet hardware-accelerated data center infrastructure? And how NVIDIA Bluefield & Guardicore Centra can help...
Gambling, Streaming Traffic Up During Men's College Basketball Tourney
Gambling industry-related web traffic delivered by Akamai jumped 31% over the category average for all of Q4 2020 on March 31st...
Caught on Camera: Rethinking IoT Security
We all know that we're on camera pretty much constantly -- most coffee shops, convenience stores, and even offices employ security cameras for protection. But what happens when those devices built to keep us safe become unsafe? Hacks are becoming more frequent and attacking personal, private data...
Akamai Titans 2020: Celebrating Outstanding Achievements
To Akamai's Co-Founder Danny Lewin, calling someone a "Titan" was the highest praise he would give. Danny himself was a remarkably talented and hard-working leader whose heart, passion, and spirit still inspire us. Today, Danny's accolade is used to honor those exceptional people who are known fo...