3 Tips to Action Consumer Trust with Data Security and Privacy

Start Playing Here High-profile data breaches and increasingly sophisticated security threats are driving smart brands to better manage the mass amounts of consumer data they've spent years collecting. To do so, brands must prioritize their customers' interests and build a modern data security an...

Egyptian DDoS Campaign Observations

Between March 19 and March 25, 2019, there was a very large amount of DDoS traffic sourced from a specific Egyptian Autonomous System ASN directed at Akamai Prolexic customers. It's worth noting this is an ASN we rarely see in our pre-attack, or top source IPs during active attacks. When it showe...

Broadcast Operations Control Center (BOCC): Enabling OTT Broadcast Operations

So, what is the BOCC? Simply put, Akamai runs a state-of-the-art Broadcast Operations Control Centre, the BOCC, to help ensure smooth and seamless end-user play-back experience for live OTT Over the Top and linear video delivered through Akamai Media Delivery Solutions. To phrase it more...

The Financial Implications of Online Video Quality

A single instance of video rebuffering could result in more than $85,000 in lost revenue. That's one of the key findings in Understanding the Value of Consistency in OTT Video Delivery, a new report that Akamai has released in conjunction with MTM, a research and consulting firm specializing in...

Akamai Receives a Loyalty360 Top 10 Award

Customer experience is built into Akamai at the core. Our web performance and media delivery products have helped businesses provide seamless, secure digital experiences for years... whether it's making sure your experience is flawless during a flash sale online to ensuring you can access your ba...

16Shop: Commercial Phishing Kit Has A Hidden Backdoor

Additional research by Or Katz When it comes to targeting Apple users and their personal and financial data, 16Shop has emerged as a go to kit for those who can afford it. While 16Shop is sold to criminals looking to...

Mother's Day Online Shoppers Were Active, and So Were Threat Actors

Mother's Day is a major online shopping event that attracts both shoppers as well as threat actors. Earlier in the year, we reported on the United Kingdom's version, called Mothering Sunday. An eMarketer spending forecast predicted that in the United States, retail gift spending would increase,...

Preventing the Top Data Center Breaches

Data center breaches can seem impossible to avoid, but good data center security can seriously reduce your risk. We look at famous breaches Equifax, Yahoo, & more...

Do DDoS attacks originate from Cloud Service Providers?

In a word, yes. Cloud service providers CSPs continue to power a growing portion of the greater Internet. According to Cisco, by 2021, 73 percent of cloud workloads are going to be CSP based, which reflects a compound annual growth rate of 27.5 percent from 2016 to 2021. Unfortunately, CSPs are...

Bots Tampering with TLS to Avoid Detection

Researchers at Akamai observed attackers using a novel approach for evading detection. This new technique - which we call Cipher Stunting - has become a growing threat, with its roots tracing back to early-2018. By using advanced methods, attackers are...

Containers vs Virtual Machines – Your Cheat Sheet to Know the Differences

Containers vs virtual machines is an ongoing debate in many IT shops around the world. Learn what makes each unique, their common use cases, and how to keep both secure...

Exploring botnets in VR

By Asaf Nadler & Lior Lahav Botnets often use domain generation algorithms DGAs to select a domain name, which bots use to establish communication channels with their command and control servers C2. Since Akamai analyzes over 2.2 trillion DNS requests per day, and detects thousands of active...

Words of Wisdom: Advice for Pursuing a Career in Tech

The introduction of AI into the workplace is creating uncertainty over the future of employment. However, research shows that tech will create "133 million" more jobs before 2022 than it will dissolve, as "new entities in the economy replace obsolete...

Deployment Diversity for DNS Resiliency

Consider Addressing Delegation Servers with Varying Network Routes Written by: Jim Gilbert and Barry Greene Don't Forget DNS Similar to diverse workforces performing at a higher level, diverse network service deployments perform at a higher level that is increasingly important as the Internet...

When "Customers" Attack DNS

Be real. A Communications Service Provider's CSP's customer will not use their home to attack the Domain Name System DNS. They might as well unplug from the Internet. Yet, customers get infected, CPEs get violated, and miscreants all over the Internet reflect attacks off CSP customers to attack...

CHAPTER 3: ELECTION DAY - BEST PRACTICES AND READINESS CHECKLIST FOR DIGITAL NEWS PUBLISHERS

CHAPTER 3: ELECTION DAY - BEST PRACTICES AND READINESS FOR DIGITAL NEWS PUBLISHERS As the 2019 General Election results approach, the frenzy and anticipation continue to build. Digital news publishers have the opportunity to engage with audiences on their digital properties as users go online to...

Introducing New RUM-based Website Performance Benchmarks!

End users expect nothing short of a flawless experience when visiting your website. A slow-performing, error-prone website can lead to significant losses in revenue and brand value. Do you know how your website performs for real users compared to other similar sites? We are excited to tell you...

Deployment Diversity for DNS Resiliency

Similar to diverse workforces performing at a higher level, diverse network service deployments perform at a higher level that is increasingly important as the Internet continues to augment our reality. Akamai has 20 years of edge service deployment experience. Akamai's Intelligent Edge has prove...

Fast DNS Secondary Implementation: Order or Operations for NS Zone & Registrar Records

Akamai's Fast DNS service provides cloud-based, authoritative domain services to thousands of organizations. Fast DNS is the most widely deployed cloud DNS service pushed to the edge of the Internet. Every organization must protect their domain name. Akamai's built Fast DNS to focus on domain nam...

Edge DNS Secondary Implementation: Order or Operations for NS Zone & Registrar Records

Akamai's Edge DNS service provides cloud-based, authoritative domain services to thousands of organizations. Edge DNS is the most widely deployed cloud DNS service pushed to the edge of the Internet. Every organization must protect their domain name. Akamai originally built Fast DNS now Edge DNS ...

How Credit Unions Can Optimize & Secure the Mobile App Experience

A small army of digital natives are about to become the largest generation globally. Gen Z, those born after 1996, will account for 32% of the world's population 7.7 billion in 2019 and outnumber millennials for the first time, according to World Economic Forum. This year, it will be critical for...

The Problem with Perfection: Tech Confidence in Young Girls

At Akamai, we believe the future of tech is full of amazing opportunities. However, to ensure these opportunities are fulfilled, some things in the industry need to change. To enable these changes, we are committed to providing opportunities to anyone...

Traffic Management for Peace of Mind

Ensure Quality of Experience and Readiness with CDN Capacity Overflow Have you ever planned and launched a system with painstaking detail and, at some point in time, something unexpected breaks the system? An unexpected event might be an unanticipated scenario a bug! or user adoption beyond...

Do High Vanity Bitrates Choke Your Live OTT Service Out of the Gate?

Studies show that video consumption demand is growing faster than capacity. While capacity overhead does exist, current trends suggest that we'll see more bottlenecking on last-hop connectivity, especially with regionally targeted content. By pushing "vanity bitrates" -- those topmost speeds that...

People Spent More Time with Their Mom this Mother's Day in the U.K.

The first major peak traffic event for online shopping in the United Kingdom is Mother's Day, held this year on Sunday, March 31. As we did during peak holiday traffic events last year, we tabulated and analyzed aggregate statistics from global online retail traffic that touched nearly 100 retail...

The Leaders of the Future: Tech for Growing Minds

Jobs in the STEM and Tech fields are growing at "three times the pace of non-STEM jobs." The rise of technological advances means the tech industry is not slowing down anytime soon. In the next decade, there will be 1...

Akamai's Adaptive Media Player Advances for NAB 2019, Adding Header Bidding and Ultra Low Latency

Introduction Akamai Adaptive Media Player AMP helps publishers insert quality media playback experiences into web, mobile, and connected-TV applications. Publishers can leverage Akamai AMP for a single, modular SDK that pre-integrates playback, delivery, monetization, and measurement to ensure a...

The AWS Cloud Security Issues You Don’t Want to Ignore

AWS is the biggest name in IaaS, but the shared responsibility model leaves you open to risk. A full approach to AWS cloud security can fill the gap...

Introducing Guardicore Cyber Threat Intelligence

Introducing Cyber Threat Intelligence CTI, a freely available resource to assist in identifying and investigating malicious IP addresses and domains...

March Release: Q&A with Ari Weil

Shortly after Akamai announced the March 2019 Release with new features and capabilities across its security, performance and media product lines, Akamai's VP of Product Marketing, Ari Weil, took over Akamai's Twitter account for a live March Release Q&A. For those that missed the live event,...

Guardicore Threat Intelligence Helps Cybersecurity Community Research Attacks and Mitigate Risks

This post discusses how Guardicore Labs helps Guardicore customers and the security community enhance their security posture...

Introducing Ability Purge Cache Tag

The new purge by cache tag functionality in Akamai’s Fast Purge is now available to all Akamai content delivery product customers. To get to this point, we went through an exciting, year-long beta with more than 200 participants purging 200,000,000 tags. During this time, we noted some fascinatin...

Securing Your Direct Internet Access Connections

With the rapid uptake in SaaS applications and the ease of moving enterprise applications from the data center to the cloud, many global companies are transforming the way they connect branch offices. In the past, the conventional approach was to connect all of your locations over an MPLS Wide Ar...

5 Docker Security Best Practices to Avoid Breaches

Like with any technology, Docker too has its security concerns. Learn the Docker security best practices that will help keep your infrastructure and applications secure...

Akamai in the Community: Making Tech Accessible

Here at Akamai, we believe every person is important, and that no one should be left out. Our internal culture is cultivated by looking outwards, into the community, to make the life of our society better. Not only do we...

Get, Set, Election, Go: Preparing For The 2019 Elections - Chapter Two

Chapter 2: Election Day Challenges and Opportunities for Digital News Publishers It will be all about optimizing for Scale, Performance, and Efficiency while maintaining their security posture ... If 2014 was anything to go by for us at Akamai supporting digital publishers, 2019 is going to be an...

The Voice of Tech: Who We Are, What We Want to Say

Have you ever wondered what it might be like to see inside one of the biggest tech companies in the world? Well, we're starting a new series of blogs to give you the insight you've never had before. Akamai's innovations...

CDN Tuning for OTT - "Why Doesn't it Already do That?"

When you initially onboarded your OTT traffic to a CDN, you probably went with default settings. And to be honest, why wouldn't you? A standard media configuration is designed for the short http-based segment delivery at scale. It removes the bottleneck of your origin connectivity, taking you fro...

Avoiding Security Misconfiguration

Security Misconfiguration exposes networks to risk on premises and the cloud. What do you need to know to limit firewall security misconfiguration?...

Global Traffic Management for Cloud, Data Centers, and CDNs

Twenty years ago it would be common to have multiple data centers load balanced with specialized devices. The applications in multiple data centers would use the Domain Name System DNS to look up the application destination. The DNS system would be set up to with multiple data center locations...

Global Traffic Management for Cloud, Data Centers, and CDNs

Twenty years ago it would be common to have multiple data centers load balanced with specialized devices. The applications in multiple data centers would use the Domain Name System DNS to look up the application destination. The DNS system would be set up to with multiple data center locations...

Get, Set, Election, Go: Preparing For The 2019 Elections

Meeting the Expectations of Millions as They Go Online on The Election Day The 2019 General Elections could possibly be the most important Election event ever, in India... As India advances towards the general elections, this year, it will be the world's largest democratic exercise, and the bigge...

What's New in Security - March 2019

Today, Akamai announced the March 2019 Release with new features and capabilities across its security, performance, and media product lines - with a focus on helping customers better manage their cloud migration initiatives. Within security, Akamai has made updates to every product line to help...

Does Zero Trust Security Have to be Hard to be Effective?

The short answer is no. As expected, the long answer is a little more nuanced. But first, a quick refresher on Zero Trust security for those who haven't jumped on the bandwagon yet. For those who have, feel free to skip the next section. Zero Trust Security Recap We know that the defensible netwo...

Architecting DNS for DDoS Durability and Resilience

My business depends on my domain name being 100% available. How do I ensure my domain name is durable to attack and resilient during Internet stress? After many years of hard work from many Internet engineers and system administrators, Akamai Technologies has been working towards DNS infrastructu...

HTTP/2 Will be Automatically Enabled by Default on the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform

Users demand digital experiences that are fast, secure and visually engaging. To deliver on user expectations, companies craft web experiences that are richer and more interactive with the goal of driving more engagement. The result is increasingly complex websites that are comprised of high...

Automated API Protection with WAP

For those who use Web Application Protector from Akamai: "Your APIs just got an extra layer of protection". For everyone else, learn how easy a WAF can be. You protect your web applications, that's awesome, but what about all your APIs? Do you know how many you have, who accesses them and what...

Bot Manager: Staying Ahead of the Bot Landscape

Akamai launched Bot Manager three years ago. Since then, the bot landscape has continued to evolve and we've introduced a number of improvements to our bot detections to stay ahead of it. These included browser fingerprinting and behavioral anomaly detection, as well constantly refining our core...

Professional Services Simplified - Check out what's new!

In today's fast-moving digital world, we know businesses need to rapidly adapt to meet user expectations and stay competitive. At Akamai, we see a world of unimagined potential, enabled through the unique power of the Akamai Edge. It's this power, backed by the support of our 2000 global experts,...

Prevent Access to Unauthorized Viewers with Enhanced Proxy Detection

Background: Geo-Blocking Content There are no hard and fast rules to the way content is licensed throughout the world, but typically content owners develop license agreements at the country level which gives them a fair amount of flexibility when monetizing their content. These license agreements...