Akamai Launches New Digital Badge Program for Channel Partners

Partner enablement framework provides capabilities to manage customer lifecycle from prospecting through implementation for Akamai products. We are introducing digital badges for successful completion of partner enablement certifications. This is an opportunity for Akamai Partner professionals to...

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...

Latinex Month and Our Culture

Eleven months ago, I joined Akamai as a result of the acquisition of a company I was partner of. The former company was small compared to Akamai, but had operations in several countries in the region, from Argentina to Mexico. In this company, we had been working with Akamai for 17 years, but on...

How to Be Resilient to Data Theft

Page Integrity Manager is now PCI compliant -- a strong starting point to harden your web applications...

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...

Three Cloud-First Akamai Initiatives to Support Your Cloud Journey

61% of organizations plan to focus on cloud migration this year. 93% have a multi-cloud strategy.1 This means that on average your organization is using 2.2 public clouds, multiplying your complexity and your costs. While the cloud has delivered on a lot of promises, it isn't getting simpler or...

Media Services Live Features Upgrades to Support Modern-Day Live-Streaming Needs

Media Services Live MSL is Akamai's flagship solution for preparing live streams to provide broadcast-grade streaming quality for our live-streaming customers. MSL provides purpose-built key capabilities with liveOrigin, including ingest acceleration to map encoders to optimal entry points on the...

Preparing the Edge for a Big Year in Live Streaming

Next year is shaping up to be a big one for live streaming. Typically characteristic of even years, when many major international sporting events take place, 2021 looks like it could defy the trend. Akamai is predicting an unprecedented surge in live streaming that will start in late 2020 and...

Measuring & Improving Core Web Vitals

Google recently announced a proposed update to its search ranking algorithm: the Page Experience Update. This change, which launches in 2021, includes more performance signals in the ranking algorithm. A subtle but important feature of the update is that AMP will no longer be a requirement for...

Timers, Metrics, and Dimensions: What's New in mPulse in 2020

The October 2020 release marks the culmination of a large number of updates to mPulse, Akamai's real user monitoring RUM solution: 8 New timers 2 New metrics 5 New dimensions UI improvements Extra custom timer capabilities With all of these new changes, you can easily determine and tune the...

Making the Edge Come Alive

In April 2019, Netflix viewers streamed 164 million hours of on-demand content per day. Fast forward a year. In April 2020, Twitch streamed 55 million hours per day. The vast majority of that was live. We have seen the future of video. It is live. But live workflows have challenges and requiremen...

What's New in Edge Delivery

Welcome to day two of the Akamai Platform Update! Today, we're focusing on Akamai's edge delivery products as well as other complimentary products that help drive great digital experiences. The last several months have been nothing short of unprecedented as lockdowns, quarantines, and other...

Visualize Visitor Prioritization in Real Time with mPulse

The internet has become one of the most important access points in our daily lives. Unexpected surges in demand can slow web pages and create service outages for unprepared websites. A poor user experience leads to dissatisfied customers, making it more critical than ever to visualize and control...

Three Cloud-First Akamai Initiatives for Your Cloud Journey

According to a 2020 State of the Cloud Report, 61% of organizations plan to focus on cloud migration this year and 93% have a multi-cloud strategy. This means that on average your organization is using 2.2 public clouds, multiplying your complexity and costs...

What's New in Edge Delivery

Welcome to day two of the Akamai Platform Update! Today, we're focusing on Akamai's edge delivery products as well as other complimentary products that help drive great digital experiences. The last several months have been nothing short of unprecedented as lockdowns, quarantines, and other...

Preparing the Edge for a Big Year in Live Streaming

Next year is shaping up to be a big one for live streaming. Typically characteristic of even years, when many major international sporting events take place, 2021 looks like it could defy the trend. Akamai is predicting an unprecedented surge in live streaming that will start in late 2020 and...

Timers, Metrics, and Dimensions: What's New for mPulse in 2020

The October 2020 release marks the culmination of a large number of updates to mPulse, Akamai's real user monitoring RUM solution:...

Measuring and Improving Core Web Vitals

Google recently announced a proposed update to its search ranking algorithm: the Page Experience Update. This change, which launches in 2021, includes more performance signals in the ranking algorithm. A subtle but important feature of the update is that AMP will no longer be a requirement for...

Computing at the Edge

Welcome to the Akamai October 2020 Update - a week of product updates, new features, and innovations. We'll be highlighting a different area of our portfolio each day this week. In today's post, we look at our enhanced edge computing capabilities and how they help developers more effectively and...

EdgeWorkers Use Story: Creating high-performing, individualized campaign responses in online retail

As campaigns and digital experiences become more individualized, they can create a challenge for delivering content to consumers at the highest velocity. Having each paid search, social media, and email marketing campaign add unique query string parameters to requests is critical for tracking the...

You Are Here: Giving Your Users the Local Experience They Deserve

Locality matters for most things in life: weather, health care, shopping, product reviews, dinner reservations, social networking, data privacy, news, sports ... the list goes on and on in our ever more connected lives. From direct user interaction on your flagship website or app to IoT device da...

Edgeworkers Use Story: Creating High-Performing, Individualized Campaign Responses in Online Retail

As campaigns and digital experiences become more individualized, they can create a challenge for delivering content to consumers at the highest velocity. Having each paid search, social media, and email marketing campaign add unique query string parameters to requests is critical for tracking the...

Edgeworkers Use Story: Creating High-Performing, Individualized Campaign Responses in Online Retail

As campaigns and digital experiences become more individualized, they can create a challenge for delivering content to consumers at the highest velocity. Having each paid search, social media, and email marketing campaign add unique query string parameters to requests is critical for tracking the...

Computing at the Edge

Welcome to the Akamai October 2020 Update - a week of product updates, new features, and innovations. We'll be highlighting a different area of our portfolio each day this week. In today's post, we look at our enhanced edge computing capabilities and how they help developers more effectively and...

Death by a Thousand Cuts: Nuisance DDoS Attacks in the Games Industry

At Akamai, we talk a lot about DDoS attacks. It's because we're pretty good at handling them. We've stopped many of the world's biggest attacks. And, while less common, they get a lot of attention. But we can also stop the world's smallest attacks. And we stop lots of them. It's these smaller...

WarezTheRemote: Turning Remotes into Listening Devices

Television remotes have gotten little attention as a potential attack vector – despite being one of the most common household devices you can find...

Death by a Thousand Cuts: Nuisance DDoS Attacks in the Games Industry

At Akamai, we talk a lot about DDoS attacks. It's because we're pretty good at handling them. We've stopped many of the world's biggest attacks. And, while less common, they get a lot of attention. But we can also stop the world's smallest attacks. And we stop lots of them. It's these smaller...

Akamai Named to India's Best Workplaces for Women

By Mani Sundaram, CIO and EVP, Global Services & Support & Prasad Mandava, Managing Director, India, & the Akamai India Leadership Team Akamai recently received the honor of being named one of the Top 50 Workplaces for Women in India by Great Place to Work. They evaluated over 850 organizations...

Akamai: Supporting Development at the Edge

The pressures on application and web development teams to deliver exceptional customer experiences have never been greater than they are at this time. With consumer expectations growing, the ability of developers to deliver fresh, leading-edge digital experiences confidently and at high velocity ...

"School From Home" Changes Residential Internet Safety and Security Dynamics

2020 has been a year of epic change as we all work together to minimize the adverse impact of COVID-19. There's been extensive coverage in blogs and media as businesses navigated a rapid transition to remote work for their employees and pivoted to address an entirely new set of security...

CMAF... This is the Way

Optimize your streaming content catalog The debate is over. Common Media Application Format CMAF has delivered on its promise: one package to serve them all. Two of the highest profile direct-to-consumer DTC streaming service launches recently made the leap, validating that the time has come for...

Fighting Smoke with Open Source

I'm a developer advocate at Akamai and a huge proponent for the open source initiative. So, today I am going to tell you a story of how a regular person like you or me can make an impact with just a little bit of goodwill, and a pinch of open source. Early morning on August 16, around 2,500...

Akamai Identified as a Leader Among Zero Trust Providers by Independent Research Firm

We are pleased to share that Akamai has been identified as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust eXtended Ecosystem Platform Providers, Q3 2020. In the report, Forrester evaluated how each vendor's portfolio maps and delivers on specific components of the Zero Trust eXtended ZTX framework...

Serverless at the Edge: Enabling Magical Unicorns

Before we dive straight into the magical unicorn from heaven that is serverless computing embedded within the CDN edge a direct customer quote that I want on a team T-shirt soon, let's first level-set on some basic concepts of computing. In the context of web experiences, IoT device messaging, an...

My Journey to Akamai and Back

As a region, it's very diverse and dynamic, with a lot to experience. Although I'm based in the Beijing office, I have opportunities to collaborate closely with my colleagues in Japan, India, Singapore and Australia. We find synergies and uniqueness in each market, and constantly share ideas and...

The Importance of Listening

Akamai has been a leader in customer service for years, and we've leveraged that experience to best support our customers through the COVID-19 pandemic. That includes our internal customers, our employees who are working hard to do their jobs while adjusting to a full-time remote environment. Thi...

Smart DNS for the New Network Edge

This is the first in a series of blog posts that will discuss how smart DNS resolvers can enhance ongoing ISP and MNO network transformation efforts such as the transition to 5G, better integration of Wi-Fi, and new network designs that optimize the edge to improve service delivery and network...

Smart DNS for the New Network Edge

People depend on the internet for just about everything: interacting, learning, transacting, traveling, working, and more. At the same time, the wireless evolution to 4G -- and soon 5G and Wi-Fi everywhere -- has given birth to an era of connected cars, smart sensors, and a multitude of other...

How to Start Growing and Never Stop

My heritage is Sri Lankan. But, at the age of 15 I moved to France as a refugee, fleeing a civil war. Starting a new life from scratch in France, without speaking French, was certainly an interesting journey. But I was lucky enough to have support from my parents. They lived by the mantra of "whe...

FFEM: A Simple Device to Crowdsource Water Quality Data

Akamai has been a strong advocate for water conservation by supporting early-stage innovations. This World Water Monitoring Day September 18, we present the inspiring work of one of our innovators -- Foundation For Environmental Monitoring FFEM, based in Bangalore, India -- that is working on...

Rethinking Defensive Strategy at the Edge, Part 3: Strategies for Protective Action

Our three-part blog series, Re-thinking Defensive Strategy at the Edge, has been focusing on outlining a new defensive edge strategy for today's enterprise. We began with a discussion of data and indicators. Most recently, our second post focused on using risk signals and correlating them for...

Getting Sassy About SASE - the Value of Edge Security

As a former Gartner analyst and now a strategist at Akamai, I have had several conversations with CISOs across the world on the topic of 'designing a future-ready security architecture'. The fact that so many CISOs are seeking a newer, and more effective, security model is a sign that the busines...

Rethinking Defensive Strategy at the Edge, Part 2: Risk Signals as Security Controls

In the first post in our blog series Rethinking Defensive Strategy at the Edge, we began to outline why a new defensive edge strategy is needed for today's enterprise. As previously mentioned, the strategy enhances those in place and introduces another layer of defense that includes the following...

Headwinds and Tailwinds - Cycling For Climate Awareness in a Global Pandemic

If you told me at the beginning of 2020 that I'd be cycling 250 miles in the remote Upper Peninsula of Michigan, fundraising for an organization called "Climate Ride", and wearing a face mask to go grocery shopping - I would not have believed you. Yet, since March 2020, we've all been living the...

Rethinking Defensive Strategy at the Edge, Part 1: A Changing Landscape for Securing Users

In recent years, new enterprise remote access architectures and frameworks have been introduced, such as Zero Trust Access ZTA. Those concepts have driven changes in the way the network perimeter has been defined -- specifically, from the outside in, not the inside out. Access to applications and...

Unprecedented Levels of Ransom DDoS Extortion Attacks

The FBI has released a flash warning that thousands of organizations around the world, and across multiple industries, have been threatened with DDoS attacks unless they pay a bitcoin ransom. This ransom DDoS, or RDoS, threat was covered by Akamai's Security Intelligence Response Team SIRT in a...

When Hackers Take Advantage of Your Trusted Vendors

As JavaScript-based client-side attacks continue to evolve, we see how attackers are getting more sophisticated and employing more advanced techniques. Unfortunately, it has been proven many times that any website partner can be exploited to carry out an attack. In the past month, we witnessed on...

When Hackers Take Advantage of Your Trusted Vendors

As JavaScript-based client-side attacks continue to evolve, we see how attackers are getting more sophisticated and employing more advanced techniques. Unfortunately, it has been proven many times that any website partner can be exploited to carry out an attack. In the past month, we witnessed on...

Unprecedented Levels of Ransom DDoS Extortion Attacks

The FBI has released a flash warning that thousands of organizations around the world, and across multiple industries, have been threatened with DDoS attacks unless they pay a bitcoin ransom. This ransom DDoS, or RDoS, threat was covered by Akamai's Security Intelligence Response Team SIRT in a...

Web Application and API Protection -- From SQL Injection to Magecart

SQL injections were first discovered in 1998, and over 20 years later, they remain an unsolved challenge and an ongoing threat for every web application and API. The Open Web Application Security Project OWASP highlighted injection flaws in its Top 10 lists for both web application security risks...