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Why Our Furniture Will Face the TV for Years to Come
Before the invention of the television, the focal point of any room was the fireplace. In fact, the word "focus" derives from the Latin word for "hearth." However, the invention of the television, coupled with the arrival of central heating, means that, from the mid-20th century onwards, most of ...
My Path to Akamai
Three years ago, I graduated with a bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering Mechatronic from University Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia. I was to be an engineer in the oil and gas industry - but the universe had a better plan for me. Instead, I stepped into IT, providing Technical Support despite my...
Streaming Traffic Peaks on Election Night
Preliminary data shows live news streaming traffic peaked at approximately 18 Tbps on Akamai's Intelligent Edge platform during coverage of the U.S. Presidential Election on November 3rd. That's roughly 5X greater than traffic on a typical day and more than double the 7.5 Tbps peak we observed...
Corporate Office and Kitchen Table: Securing the Future of Work, Part 1
The future of work is multi-modal, the future corporate office is a private coffee shop with great Wi-Fi, and the future of enterprise security is going to have to adapt rapidly. If there is a sliver of positivity that I can find in this devastating pandemic, it's that we are adapting and finding...
Optimize Video Streaming Performance to Reduce Viewer Churn
Why Improve Viewer Experience? Why Now? As online video viewership continues its march to digital mediums and platforms, viewer expectation around the quality of experience is also maturing. Increased video streaming choices and the low cost of switching providers are leading viewers to churn if...
Client-Side Protection is Key to Web Application Security
The Open Web Application Security Project OWASP Foundation defines script attacks as a "type of injection in which malicious scripts are injected into otherwise benign and trusted websites."1 From the perspective of the user, malicious code is coming from trusted websites. Recently popularized by...
Phishing JavaScript Obfuscation Techniques Soars
In our previous blogs, first where we explained JavaScript Obfuscation techniques and introduced a detailed overview on how JavaScript is being used to obfuscate page content to make phishing attacks and other web scams as evasive as possible; followed by one where we took a deep dive to examine...
Onboarding During A Pandemic: Can It Really Work? New Joiner, Lily Nguyen, Shares Her Experience.
I recently joined the Sales Development APAC team, looking after the Vietnam, Thailand and Hong Kong markets. I'd already had a great impression of Akamai's culture from my interview rounds. But how would the onboarding work? I'd been looking forward to meeting new colleagues in an office...
The World Has Moved Online. Has Your Business Adapted?
What would happen if everything we do in the world were to suddenly go online? We got the answer to that question early this year, when the global coronavirus pandemic forced almost everyone and everything to move online: commerce, meetings with colleagues and customers, classroom learning,...
How the Crypto Challenge as Action Helped a Major Airline Reduce False Positives While Protecting the Customer Experience
Challenges of Bot Detection: Keeping Defenses High Without Triggering False Positives Identifying bots is important and complicated work. Keeping up with ever-changing bot technologies and attack strategies requires deep knowledge and continuous threat research. The outbreak of the COVID-19...
The Tale of Double JavaScript Obfuscated Scam
The phishing landscape is constantly evolving. Over the years, it has evolved into a more scalable threat, with an overwhelming amount of campaigns being launched daily. Phishing also changed when criminals started adding more capabilities and features to their toolkits, which make the phishing...
Is It Worth It to Defend Your Service from Video Piracy?
The answer isn't obvious. From headcount to vendor spend, combating video piracy is expensive. And piracy has been a part of the entertainment industry since the silent movie era. It's not crazy to say, "Maybe it's just a cost of doing show business." So let's start with a different question. How...
2020 DDoS Extortion Campaign -- A Sequel More Thrilling Than the Original
Costarring Susan McReynolds and Tom Emmons As you might imagine, as the go-to enterprise DDoS mitigation experts, our phones have been "ringing off the hook" as the global extortion DDoS campaign sequel rages on. It's bigger, badder, and features a broader cast of criminal characters than seen...
Akamai Edge Cloud: Scaling IoT, Part 2
IoT has tremendous possibilities to transform our world but will fall short of expectations if the underlying infrastructure cannot support the rapid exchange of massive amounts of information from billions of simultaneous and intermittent connections. Akamai Edge Cloud is designed to enable the...
Akamai Edge Cloud: Scaling IoT, Part 2
IoT has tremendous possibilities to transform our world but will fall short of expectations if the underlying infrastructure cannot support the rapid exchange of massive amounts of information from billions of simultaneous and intermittent connections. Akamai Edge Cloud is designed to enable the...
Akamai Edge Cloud: Scaling IoT, Part 1
The Internet of Things IoT ecosystem is an exciting emerging market that is disrupting the way we design infrastructure to support businesses. Smart devices, homes, cities, cars, and automation supporting the Industry 4.0 industrial revolution are all placing new demands on existing internet...
5G, Security, IoT, Asavie and Akamai
Malicious actors never seem to rest and have always worked remotely. That simple realization hit home during recent global events. Specifically, Akamai saw an increase in malware traffic of over 400% between March 9, 2020 and May 11, 2020 from corporate devices, most of which were being used...
ATA 8.0 Graduation Ceremony
Akamai Technical Academy is a training program designed for people who have an interest and aptitude for technology but may not come from a traditional technical background. Up until now, we have successfully onboarded over 140 incredible people in three Akamai locations: Cambridge MA, US, San Jo...
5G, Security, IoT, Asavie, and Akamai
Malicious actors never rest and have always worked remotely. That simple realization hit home during recent global events. Specifically, Akamai saw an increase in malware traffic of over 400% between March 9 and May 11, 2020 from corporate devices, most of which were being used outside of a...
4 Tips for a Great CIAM RFP
Requests for proposals RFPs are a good way to start the product evaluation process as well as help clarify the project's scope and requirements. RFPs give you the ability to compare products and platforms more objectively and get you the best results for your project. That said, the process of...
Cyberattacks Evolve as the Hospitality and Travel Industry Adapts
While the world fights against the COVID-19 pandemic, cybercriminals are out in full force with a multitude of scams designed to take advantage of the confusion and panic. COVID-19 has -- by necessity -- made us all more comfortable working, playing, and buying online. This global shift to digita...
Catch Me if You Can—JavaScript Obfuscation
While conducting threat research on phishing evasion techniques, Akamai came across threat actors using obfuscation and encryption, making the malicious page harder to detect. The criminals were using JavaScript to pull this off...
Is Black Friday a Thing of the Past? Not for Mobile
I recently ordered a new Weber grill from The Home Depot. When it was delivered, I discovered it was the floor model, and it wasn't the perfect grill I had anticipated. I called the local store, and -- long story short -- my friends at The Home Depot gave me a significant discount for not letting...
Stuck Inside, the World Turns to Online Gaming
In my line of work, we talk a lot about traffic trends. They're usually predictable and based around certain events: a major trailer launch, Black Friday in the U.S, the Olympics. But the COVID-19 pandemic has derailed all expectations for 2020, and has itself become a noteworthy event, driving i...
Metrics That Matter: Measuring Streaming Performance
The COVID-19 health crisis created a dramatic shift in our lifestyles. With work, school, and entertainment taking place in home environments now, it's no surprise that screen time is up. Nielsen reports that not only did overall media consumption jump significantly in the first quarter of 2020,...
2020 DDoS Extortion Campaign -- A Sequel More Thrilling Than the Original
As the go-to enterprise distributed denial-of-service DDoS mitigation experts, our phones have been "ringing off the hook" since the release of the global extortion DDoS campaign sequel. This latest installment of the cybersecurity saga is bigger, badder, and features a broader cast of criminal...
Akamai Named Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for Fourth Consecutive Year
Gartner published its 2020 Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls WAFi and named Akamai a Leader for the fourth consecutive year. Gartner's high distinction is market recognition of our completeness of vision and ability to execute. This graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a...
Can Edge Computing Exist Without the Edge? Part 1: The Edge
If the title sounds like a trick question, it really depends on who you ask. Semantically, it seems clear that if you take the "edge" and combine it with "computing" you get edge computing. But if you have been reading headlines, you would be justified in having doubts that the answer is that...
Can Edge Computing Exist Without the Edge? Part 1: The Edge
If the title sounds like a trick question, it really depends on who you ask. Semantically, it seems clear that if you take the "edge" and combine it with "computing" you get edge computing. But if you have been reading headlines, you would be justified in having doubts that the answer is that...
DDoS Extortion Examination
In terms of the Distributed Denial of Service DDoS landscape, 2020 was almost boring prior to the beginning of August. The excitement from the record peak Gbps and Mpps seen in early summer had worn off, and we weren't seeing...
Moving to the Edge -- An Outlook Into a New Era of Computing
At the end of a busy week of Akamai platform updates, edge computing rises as a critical focus. Akamai has been operating services at the edge for over 20 years, from content and media delivery, app and IoT optimization, to cloud and enterprise security. Now we are excited to open up the full...
What's Next for Edge Delivery
Access to media through the internet is a huge part of how so many in the world are entertained, informed, and even educated nowadays. And 2020 has shined an even greater light on that fact as many around the world have needed to adjust to life during a pandemic. At Akamai, we saw traffic deliver...
Platform Update Highlights for eCommerce
Akamai's October Platform Update offers a ton of new features for our customers across all industries. But if you're an online retailer, you should really be paying attention to improvements to EdgeWorkers and Image & Video Manager, which provide expanded capabilities for creating new microservic...
What's Next in Security
Whenever we talk about what's next for Akamai's security portfolio, we clearly want to look at the challenges that are top of mind for our customers -- both today and tomorrow. And what a year 2020 has shaped up to be in terms of new challenges for CISOs and their security teams. While most of ou...
Why Take It to the Edge
Edge computing is the next natural paradigm shift in IT, bringing a new wave of decentralization. Over the past decade, IT has embraced two seemingly juxtaposed trends: the consolidation of infrastructure and data in private, public, or hybrid clouds, and the growing distribution and diversity of...
Akamai Drives New Standards and Enhances Authoritative DNS and Load Balancing Services
For more than 20 years, Akamai's customers have trusted our global edge platform to deliver their content, secure their web applications, and accelerate end-user experiences. As the basis for our mapping functions, Akamai DNS has always been essential to the reliability and performance of our...
What's New in Customer Identity and Access Management
We all know that the ability to accurately identify, understand, and engage our customers across multiple channels and digital touchpoints is absolutely vital to the digital customer experience and business. This couldn't be more important in the current environment as we continue to move more of...
Akamai Enhances its Cloud Secure Web Gateway with DLP, Application Control and DNS over TLS (DoT)
Last March, Akamai announced the launch of its secure web gateway delivered at the edge, to help enterprises further accelerate their transition to a new security architecture based on Zero Trust and secure access service edge SASE principles. As we now know, we were just on the cusp of a global...
What's New in Security, Part 2
Welcome to the Akamai Platform Update! We're presenting an entire week of learning about Akamai's recent product updates. Each day, we'll highlight our latest innovations in each area of the Akamai Intelligent Platform. You may have already read Renny Shen's fantastic blog walking through day 1 o...
Beyond Speed and Reliability: Security Is a New Differentiator
Homes have always been hubs; now they're even more so. Some jobs shifted to work from home, and many children are experiencing distance learning at bedroom desks or kitchen tables or whatever is available. Traditional workplaces like large businesses, government agencies, and other organizations...
Better Together: Akamai Enhances Zero Trust Network Access with CrowdStrike
More than ever before, users and applications no longer reside at the office. Organizations are managing a mobile and globally distributed workforce that needs access to corporate systems, applications, and data from outside the traditional network perimeter. In addition, cyberattackers are...
Akamai's Climate Leadership
Guest blogger Jim Boyle is CEO and Founder of Sustainability Roundtable, Inc. His views are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Akamai. The business world has moved much further online in 2020 and showed up as never before at NYC's Climate Week September 21-27. HRH The Prince of Wales...
What's New in Security (Part 2)
Welcome to the Akamai Platform Update! We're presenting an entire week of learning about Akamai's recent product updates. Each day, we'll highlight our latest innovations in each area of the Akamai Intelligent Platform...
What's New in Web Security
With Akamai's web security portfolio, the top focus this October is on the web application firewall WAF, with exciting new capabilities: API Discovery and Adaptive Security Profiles. Along with the rest of the industry, Akamai has observed a long-term shift in the applications that we're...
What's New in Services and Support
Why Services and Support? Whether you are new to Akamai or increasing your adoption of our solutions, Services and Support is here to help you take on the most challenging problems businesses face today, so you can offer consistent, fast, secure experiences to your customers. It's no secret that...
How to Be Resilient to Data Theft
Page Integrity Manager is now PCI compliant -- a strong starting point to harden your web applications. Compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard PCI DSS is fundamental for any business that accepts payment cards or processes payment card data. Many financial services...
Akamai and Snyk Partnership Creates a Powerful Combination for In-Browser Script Protection
A web experience begins with the sum of the code you created. But it also includes all the code the user is put in contact with when loading your website. This means the attack surface to monitor for web application software threats is not just your code repositories, but the sum of the assets re...
Akamai's Polymorphic AI Framework Preemptively Manages Bots
Too many security efforts react to threats as they come. While security teams often succeed through Herculean efforts, being constantly under siege takes its toll on your resources. The relentless barrage of bot attacks will eventually crack the human- and system-based methods to block or mitigat...
Balancing Protection with Performance to Double Down on DDoS
Combating DDoS attacks with the highest quality of mitigation means having the right platform, processes, and people in place. At Akamai, we're recognized as a leader for DDoS mitigation solutions based on our Edge DNS, CDN edge-scrubbing, and cloud-scrubbing platforms that are designed to keep...
API Discovery and Profiling -- Visibility to Protection
APIs have become a dominant mechanism in the modern web, allowing organizations to create powerful web and mobile experiences, while exposing back-end data and logic to create new and innovative offerings. Protecting internet-facing APIs -- an emerging practice over the past few years -- is the...