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October 2019 - What's New in Web Performance?
Today, Akamai announced the October 2019 Release, which introduces new capabilities to the Performance product line with a focus on helping customers deliver superior experiences with the power of the Edge. Here are some highlights from the release with additional detail below. EdgeWorkers enable...
Faster On-Boarding for Performance and Security Products
As part of our October release, we are making our onboarding experience much faster and simpler. These benefits are extended to new customers looking to onboard and protect new hostnames on Akamai - as well as existing customers looking to spin up, test, and protect new functionality within their...
Quickly Extend Live Streams with VOD Clipping
Time is always of the essence to extend compelling video content such as sporting events and concerts and make the most of media rights windows. This is especially true for catch-up TV, highlight creation, time-shifting 24/7 simulcast streams, and social sharing. At Akamai, we are continually...
Akamai's Innovation and Collaboration In Renewable Energy
The energy footprint of the IT sector is estimated at 7% of global electricity consumption, according to Greenpeace International. And, although the data center and colocation industry is a small segment of the IT sector, it represents a large portion of its power consumption. By 2020, the power...
Data in the dark: Data protection
Hyperconnectivity is on the rise and, as a result, corporations' capacity to protect their own and their customers' data becomes more and more limited. Connection takes place over a network, so, as connection increases, that network increases in size...
Faster JWT Key Rotation in API Gateway
JSON Web Tokens JWT use digital signatures to establish the authenticity of the data they contain, as well as authenticating the identity of the signer. A valid signature check ensures that any party can rely on the contents and the...
Akamai's 3 Takeaways from the Gartner CIAM Solution Comparison
We have eagerly awaited Gartner's analysis of the growing CIAM industry. According to Gartner, in its August 2019 Solution Comparison for Customer Identity and Access Management Capabilities of 9 Vendors, "CIAM offerings are expanding and are now key business enablers for unifying customer...
Beware of Fall Phishing Season
A recent blog post by LinkedIn says there are more available job postings listed in October than any other month. Since 89% of the hiring managers who spoke to LinkedIn said it takes less than four weeks to fill those roles, there is a limited window of opportunity - for both job seekers and...
But We Have an Email Gateway...
In my previous phishing blogs, I wrote about the evolution of phishing and the industrialization of phishing that's being driven by the availability and low cost of toolkits. In this blog post, I'm going to provide more information about emerging phishing attack vectors and how cybercriminals are...
Maximizing Onboarding: Giving managers the skills for success
Managing teams come with challenges as well as rewards. Managers drive individual and team performance, and the best managers drive employee connection and engagement. Akamai believes that employees are our biggest asset; by effectively and efficiently integrating them into the...
From the Beginning: Internships With Akamai
At Akamai, our internships are both unique and meaningful. What do we mean by this? Well, we believe an internship should add real, significant value to an intern's skill-set. So, not only do they get to learn on the job...
The Phishing Industry
As I mentioned in my previous blog post, phishing attacks are now being created and executed on an industrial scale. Malicious actors are increasingly using highly sophisticated off-the-shelf phishing kits that allow them to deliver very targeted, short-lived attacks. These campaigns direct victi...
Device Hopping Shoppers Drive Up Bounce Rates Leading Into Holiday 2019
Executive Summary In 2018, Akamai reported for the first time that shoppers used mobile devices more than desktops for all the major peak traffic events we measured. Interestingly, they often don't complete their purchase on a mobile device. If the most recently concluded back-to-school shopping...
Client Side Threats & How Could Website Owners Mitigate Them?
Have you ever browsed a website with complete confidence that your data is protected? We tend to trust websites with some of our most valuable assets, such as personal information or credit card data. While owners of these websites might consider the protection of our data a top priority, we stil...
Akamai Partners with Supplier To Meet Sustainability Goals
Akamai strives to mitigate the impact of our operations while maximizing and enhancing the benefits of our sustainable business practices. We are working hard to hit our sustainability goals by: creating a more sustainable platform through reducing network energy intensity by way of engineering...
This Isn't the Phishing Your First Boss Knew
Phishing has been around for nearly as long as email has, and the perception that phishing tactics have not evolved persists. Many people believe we are still in the era of the easy-to-spot "Nigerian prince" emails, shown below. Underneath that, we see a highly creative, yet not any more...
The Massive Propagation Of The Smominru Botnet
In this post, Guardicore Labs provides an in-depth analysis of the attack campaign, focusing on victim analysis and attack infrastructure...
New DDoS Vector Observed in the Wild: WSD Attacks Hitting 35/Gbps
Additional research and support provided by Chad Seaman. Introduction Members of Akamai's Security Intelligence Response Team have been investigating a new DDoS vector that leverages a UDP Amplification technique known as WS-Discovery WSD. The situation surrounding WSD was recently made...
Understanding CCPA: It's Time to Action a Plan for Compliance
Notice to all procrastinators: The final countdown to the California Consumer Privacy Act CCPA has begun. On January 1, 2020, companies or organizations that do business in California will be required to comply with the state's strict new privacy legislation that establishes a legal and enforceab...
Akamai and Exceda - Maximizing Customer and Partner Value in Latin America Together
Today, Akamai announced an agreement to acquire Exceda, our largest channel partner in Latin America. I want to share what this acquisition means for our customers and partners, and why I am so excited about the potential that this represents for us all. Initially becoming a channel partner in...
Akamai e Exceda: maximizando juntas o valor do cliente e do parceiro na América Latina
A Akamai anunciou hoje um acordo de compra da Exceda, nossa maior parceira de canal na América Latina. Quero compartilhar o que essa aquisição significa para nossos clientes e parceiros e por que estou tão empolgado com o potencial disso para todos nós. A partir de sua parceria inicial em 2002, a...
Akamai y Exceda: Maximizar en conjunto el valor de clientes y socios de América Latina
Hoy, Akamai anunció un acuerdo para adquirir Exceda, nuestro socio de canal más grande de América Latina. Quiero compartir lo que esta adquisición implica para nuestros clientes y socios, y el motivo por el que me emociona enormemente el potencial que esto representa para todos nosotros. Exceda,...
DNS Protection: A "Must" in Security Solutions for any Company
Domain name system DNS services are often a point of vulnerability for businesses, so DNS security has become a growing concern for many of them. DNS is a critical element for all companies because it turns domain names into internet protocol IP addresses. Cyber criminals have been digging into D...
How Can Akamai Identity Cloud Help With Regulatory Compliance?
Regulatory compliance related to personal identifiable information PII is continuously being enacted around the world as the amount of breaches and data abuse continues to grow. Understanding the variances between the many different privacy and data protection laws can be challenging for companie...
XMR Cryptomining Targeting x86/i686 Systems
I have been playing close attention to Internet of Things IoT malware targeting systems with Telnet enabled, while also collecting samples targeting systems with SSH enabled on port 22. I've collected over 650 samples landing in my honeypot within the...
Increasing Female Leadership in Technology
The lack of women in technology is a well-documented issue. In the United States, women account for only about 25% of computer and mathematical occupations, and only about 16% of engineering jobs. Worse still, women hold only 5% of leadership positions in the tech industry. Clearly the industry h...
How to Provide Secure Access to AWS Workloads
In the last two posts, we covered the security fundamentals to migrate to the Cloud and the 10 best practices to secure workloads. In this third post, we will talk about securing access to your AWS workloads. To Live Happy, Live Hidden In a traditional model, you need to somehow open your cloud...
The Shady Secrets of Shadow Networks
Shadow networks are side channels to traditional networks, undetected and working quietly in the background alongside what the traditional network was designed to do. Command and Control sometimes referred to as C2 servers maintain links with compromised end points IoT, PCs, Printers etc within a...
In Conversation: The Women in Network Security
Why does network security matter? On average, there is a hacker attack every 39 seconds. If any of these attacks result in a data breach, they could cost over $150 million, with research suggesting that cyber-attacks could cost businesses over...
Fast DNS: Zone Apex Mapping & DNSSEC
Introduction Along with its DDoS resilience and impressive global footprint, Fast DNS affords zone administrators additional technical flexibility and implementation options. One example is Zone Apex Mapping ZAM -- a feature that enables apex domains to be mapped directly to an Akamai edge IP. Th...
Edge DNS: Zone Apex Mapping & DNSSEC
Along with its DDoS resilience and impressive global footprint, Akamai Edge DNS offers zone administrators additional technical flexibility and implementation options to improve performance and simplify DNS operations. One example is zone apex mapping ZAM, a feature that enables top level hostnam...
Alleviating Digital Transformation Performance and Security Concerns
Businesses across the world are migrating applications to the cloud to reduce IT cost and complexity, and accelerate the pace of innovation. But when you move applications and services to the cloud you lose visibility and control over your infrastructure, increasing risk and uncertainty. That's w...
HTTP2 Vulnerabilities
On Tuesday, August 13th at 10 AM Pacific Time 1700UTC, Netflix publicly disclosed a series of vulnerabilities found by Jonathan Looney that impact many implementations of the HTTP2 protocol. A vulnerability found by Piotr Sikora of Google was also released...
From On-Prem to Cloud: The Complete AWS Security Checklist
This complete AWS cloud auditing security checklist outlines what it takes to protect sensitive data center security & intellectual property when securing an organization’s cloud deployment...
TOP 10 BEST PRACTICES FOR SECURING CLOUD WORKFLOWS
Cloud migration is a double-edged sword. While promising greater scalability, agility, and even new approaches to applications, it also introduces complexity--which means more security risk. Security vulnerabilities exposed in breach after breach have highlighted the risk that comes with the clou...
Trust As The Foundation Of Security
Our customers are moving more workloads to the cloud. No surprise there. The siren song of agility, scale, and cost savings can't be resisted. But as we highlighted earlier, security fundamentals are key to a successful cloud migration. In fact, we also shared marketectures to successfully migrat...
Top 10 Practices for Securing Cloud Workloads
Public cloud is one of the biggest challenges in every IT organization. While driving greater scalability, performance, and access for a competitive edge, it also introduces new security risks. More than just hosted data center infrastructure, public cloud offers the promise of agility, efficienc...
Three Keys to Infusing Security into your Corporate Culture
Creating a security-oriented culture is a challenge for many businesses. There's a natural tension between development teams, that are under constant pressure to get new applications and features to market as quickly as possible, and security teams that need to protect critical systems and...
Security Fundamentals Are Key To Successful Cloud Migration
Earlier I wrote about the importance of patching, or more accurately the importance of transferring the need to patch & the associated risk to someone else by using their cloud security service. While patching definitely falls into the security fundamentals category it remains as relevant as ever...
Launching the Melbourne Scrubbing Centre
We are excited to announce the launch of Akamai's newest scrubbing centre in Australia. While Akamai has been protecting ANZ customers from large and complex DDoS attacks for years, the new Melbourne scrubbing centre will allow us to provide higher resilience and reduce latency for in-region...
4 Critical Elements Your Next Security Solution Must Have
Security is essential to the success of any digital business. But there's one thing you can always count on: security-related incursions are inevitable. And the results can be devastating. Security breaches erode trust and damage reputation. As a CIO, CISO, or other security or IT leader, you kno...
Time to Transfer Risk: Why Security Complexity & VPNs Are No Longer Sustainable
We all heed the gospel of patching, but as recent incidents made clear, even cutting-edge disruptors struggle to patch everything, everywhere, and all the time. Maybe this is associated with the growing volume of common vulnerabilities and exposures CVEs. As they say, there is only one way and...
Diversity of Thought in Tech
At Akamai, we believe innovation is only possible when the various viewpoints and experiences of a collective, culminate to make a great idea. It is the variety of these ideas which is important. Why does diversity of thought matter? When...
Easy VPN Transition With Zero Trust Access
Akamai recently announced Enterprise Application Access capabilities designed to improve performance and user experience, as well as provide an easy migration away from VPN, reducing complexity and risk. The new capabilities -- IP address-based access, on-premises network detection, and captive...
Criminals Using Targeted Remote File Inclusion Attacks in Phishing Campaigns
In June 2019, logs on my personal website recorded markers that were clearly Remote File Inclusion RFI vulnerability attempts. The investigation into the attempts uncovered a campaign of targeted RFI attacks that currently are being leveraged to deploy phishing kits...
New OTT Service Changing How New Zealanders Watch Sports
Communications service providers are looking for new ways to gain an edge in today's competitive market. In sports-crazed New Zealand, one of the country's largest telecom providers just launched an all-sports video service to attract new subscribers. Spark Sport is a new over-the-top OTT offerin...
Amazon Prime Day is Now a Major Holiday, Driving up Traffic by More Than 14% in the U.S.
For the just-completed Amazon Prime Day a full 48 hours this year, published reports indicate that it was the largest shopping event in Amazon's history, exceeding their own 2018 sales for both Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined. And this year, there were more than 250 other retailers that...
Why Identity Aware Proxies are Key to Adaptive Access Controls
By now, you have likely heard the term "Zero Trust". From tech seminars and industry events to webinars and whitepapers, it is popping up everywhere. CISOs and CTOs are constantly inundated with calls and messages from different vendors proclaiming different ways their solutions can help them...
In Conversation: It's Never Too Late
There can be barriers to pursuing a career in tech. For many people, the journey isn't straightforward. Many of our Akamai employees have diverse backgrounds and have overcome obstacles to pursue their dream career. Often, the way forward into a...
Akamai Load Balancing to Lock-in Quality
The Right Service from the Right Edge at the Right Time Introduction As Akamai's Global Traffic Management for Cloud, Data Centers and CDNs blog introduces, Akamai's Intelligent Edge™ platform includes DNS and Layer 7 load balancing capabilities that combine to get users to the right edge at the...