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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...