Experts that support your digital transformation

If your business is like many, your customer's experience is a top priority. In an age of fast paced digital transformation, meeting the needs of a unique global user base while securely delivering quality web based experiences, continues to grow in complexity. While many already think of Akamai ...

VLAN Network Segmentation – What are The Hidden Costs?

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Why would customers choose me?

Competitive Differentiation Guide for Financial Services in Digital India We are a young nation 1.3 billion strong, of which just about 500 million are active internet users. Not a small number by any means. We have world's second largest pool of internet users and our online population is larger...

Don't let your factory plant become the next cybersecurity victim

In 2014, a smart refrigerator had been caught red-handed for spawning over 750,000 spam emails after hijacked by a botnet attack. It is the first documented attack worldwide for Internet of Things to have fallen prey to hackersi. A more recent case in the US concerns an internet connected...

Best security practices for Trusted TLS Intermediary

According to Google over 75% of public websites are accessed over encrypted connections using HTTPS, with the use of HTTP diminishing. As expected, the bad actors are following the crowds, and using HTTPS to hide their activities. So how can security solutions such as ETP Threat Protector detect...

ARE YOU LEAVING YOUR SECURITY BACKDOOR OPEN?

Gartner predicts that enterprises will spend $96 Billion on cyber security this year, up 8% from their spend in 2017. That's a big chunk of change. To put it into context, that spend is in the same ballpark as the individual GDPs of Venezuela, Sri Lanka and Puerto Rico in 2018. Despite this,...

Experiment: Improving Page Load Times with Script Streaming

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HTTPS+TLS and IPv6-enablement both in the majority for World Cup streaming

The underlying protocols of the Internet continue to evolve, and massive events such as the World Cup are a great opportunity to see this in action. A single-match peak for live video streaming of 22.5 Tbps was set on Akamai on Tuesday July 10 during the semi-final in Russia between France and...

HTTP+TLS and IPV6-Enablement Both in the Majority for World Cup Streaming

The underlying protocols of the Internet continue to evolve, and massive events such as the World Cup are a great opportunity to see this in action...

HTTP+TLS and IPV6-Enablement Both in the Majority for World Cup Streaming

The underlying protocols of the Internet continue to evolve, and massive events such as the World Cup are a great opportunity to see this in action...

Akamai Welcomes Girls Who Code

Akamai employees in Cambridge have started to see some new faces around the office for the summer - 20+ high school juniors to be specific! For the fourth consecutive year, Akamai is partnering with Girls Who Code to host a seven-week long summer immersion program dedicated to closing the gender...

Fortnite Sets Game Traffic Record on Akamai

Akamai Technologies set a new record on Thursday, July 12th, 2018, for the peak level of traffic delivered for a single video game on its network, at more than 37 Tbps peak across all platforms. This massive influx of traffic was driven by the launch of Epic Games' cultural phenomenon: Fortnite,...

No Apps Left Behind on Your Zero Trust Journey

Complexity kills productivity. When it comes to enabling application access, enterprises should not have to choose between user experience and complex techniques that ensure application security. Traditionally, perimeter security is built on an assumption that whatever is inside the perimeter is...

What You Need To Know - Summer 2018 State of the Internet / Security: Web Attack Report

It's that time of year - the Summer 2018 State of the Internet / Security: Web Attack report is now live. This new naming schema is just one of the many changes you'll notice if you're a returning reader of quarterly report, and there are more changes coming as we work to bring you insights and...

Beyond the Looking Glass - The OTT Evolution in India

India, while at the cusp of becoming a digital, mobile first country, is also in the middle of evolving content consumption patterns. Hotstar's India Watch Report states that the video consumption in the country has seen a five-fold growth in just one year, with most of this growth is fuelled by...

Mergers, Acquisitions, and Malware?

Every year, tens of thousands of mergers and acquisitions M&A take place across every industry and vertical. In fact, "In 2017, companies announced over 50,600 transactions with a total value of more than 3.5 trillion USD."1 Not only is M&A complex from a business sense, it also brings the...

Summer SOTI - Web Attacks

Continuing Changes Welcome to the second blog post for the Summer 2018 State of the Internet / Security. If you've read the SOTI / Security report before, much of what you see here should be familiar, though the time frame we're looking at is the six months from November 2017 to April 2018, inste...

We Are Akamai: What Led Us Here

About Akamai and the blog We are the people at the heart of the internet. Every day, we work together to protect our customers, deliver ultimate experiences in the digital world, and connect people from far corners of the planet...

Summer SOTI - DDoS by the numbers

Time for a Change The State of the Internet / Security report has been the home for Akamai's research on DDoS, attack traffic and Internet threats for over three years. While the report has evolved and expanded its scope considerably over that time, the content and how it's presented have only se...

Platypuses and Policies: Akamai's Approach to the GDPR and Information Security

Written by Meyer Potashman On May 25, 2018, the EU General Data Protection Regulation GDPR went into effect. In preparation, Akamai, like every other company that does business with or interacts in any way with individuals in the EU, needed to re-evaluate our approach to data protection and priva...

State of the Internet Summer 2018 Attack Spotlight: What You Need To Know

Earlier this year, Akamai mitigated the largest DDoS attack in its history, fueled by a new reflector, memcached. The attack targeted one of our software clients and broke through the 1 Tbps threshold for the first time. Memcached was developed to act as a distributed memory caching system. Since...

Remote access in a software defined world

When I first ventured into technology, I wish someone gave me a heads-up about the bevy of acronyms to remember. It feels like every day a new acronym related to technology is formed. It's hard enough remembering names within my family. During Thanksgiving with a full house, I struggle to remembe...

Six Years Since World IPv6 Launch: Entering the Majority Phases

While we still have a ways to go before residual users of IPv4 are truly "laggards", we are at a stage where the use of IPv6 should be considered the norm...

Operation Prowli: Monetizing 40,000 Victim Machines

Operation Prowli: Monetizing 40,000 Victim Machines...

Six years since World IPv6 Launch: entering the majority phases

As reported in an ISOC report last year, IPv6 adoption is now solidly in the "early majority phase" of the technology adoption life cycle by many metrics well past "innovators" and "early adopters", with progress beyond that in some areas. Akamai continues to see solid growth in IPv6, including...

Akamai Edge Security - Intelligent protection coming to a city near you!

Having knowledge and visibility is just as important as products and technology when it comes to detecting and combating the latest attacks on the Internet. At Akamai, we protect customers from many of the largest and most sophisticated attacks in the world, and we are launching a series of Akama...

Tailoring YouTube for Your Requirements

Did you know around 300 hours of video content is uploaded to YouTube every minute of every day? That's a staggering amount of content. However, while a huge amount of that uploaded content is harmless and innocuous - think fluffy kittens - YouTube is also the destination of choice for a large...

Demystifying API Rate Limiting

APIs are the “digital glue” that integrates and connects infrastructure, services, devices, and users. With the proliferation of APIs in almost every organization, it‘s essential to have a mechanism in place to manage and govern them. That’s why we introduced Akamai API Gateway, which makes it...

Akamai CEO Leighton Calls Cybersecurity 'Fantastic Growth Engine'

Akamai CEO and co-founder Tom Leighton discusses the company's cybersecurity and data protection business. He speaks with Caroline Hyde from the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art on Bloomberg Technology. Source: Bloomberg...

Are VPNs a thing of the past?

Attention world: In 2018, we officially surpassed 4 billion internet users1 - and there are no signs of adoption rate slowing down. Yet the Internet as we know it has only been around since the 1990s. Along with it, different iterations of virtual private networks VPNs have been created and...

Learn How Trillions of DNS Requests Help Improve Security

Akamai's global platform is comprised of 240,000 servers in 3,750 locations within 134 countries. Additionally, our platform interacts with 1.3 billion client devices every day and we ingest 2.5 exabytes of data a year. So why are these stats important? The answer is that this visibility provides...

Yin and Yang of the Zero Trust Model

It may seem strange to apply concepts from Chinese philosophy to an IT security model, but representing complex ideas in simple terms can be a powerful tool for understanding and communicating. By viewing zero trust through the lens of Yin and Yang, we see that to be complete, the scope of the...

Election Readiness 2018

2018 is a pivotal year for the integrity of our electoral process. The threat to the digital infrastructure of our elections is proliferating to a level that has not been seen before. Officials are working tirelessly to protect your vote by proactively identifying vulnerabilities and targeting...

New State of Online Retail Performance Report Available

It's springtime, and the only people with the holidays on their minds are in the retail business. This holiday season was a record-breaking one, with combined revenue for Black Friday and Cyber Monday alone exceeding $11.5 billion. To build on that momentum, smart retailers will take a closer loo...

Significant retail spending on Mother's Day sets a stage for major holidays in 2018

The second Sunday in May is a special day for everyone because it's Mother's Day. It's also a special day for retailers, as it represents another peak period and serves as the halfway point between the prior year's Black Friday and Cyber Monday and the upcoming year's retail holidays. The retail...

Your Users Have Left the Building: Now What?

The dramatic growth of mobile devices, the widespread availability of always-on fast wireless networks, and the rapid adoption of cloud applications have transformed the viability of remote working. Employers are increasingly adopting flex schedules, implementing work from home options, and...

John Summers Q&A - Evanta Global CIO Executive Summit

Akamai's John Summers, VP & CTO, spoke at the recent Evanta Global CIO Executive Summit, a gathering of 75 major organization CIOs. His session was titled, "Cloud Security - Adopt Zero Trust and Put Asset-Level Safeguards in Place." Here are some of the key questions he addressed. How do you...

Introducing New WhoAmI Tool DNS Resolver Information

The Domain Name System DNS tools “whoami.akamai.net” and its alias “whoami.akamai.com” have been used for many years, often as a step in the process for diagnosing how a content delivery network CDN is directing traffic, locality, and network reachability issues. Whoami was originally introduced ...

Make Application Access IT-Friendly

More and more companies are looking at alternatives to VPNs due to the security risks associated with network level access. And increasingly, the goal is to eliminate network trust through a zero trust architecture - which is one of the primary reasons many of these organizations are deploying...

Zero Trust and the Identity

Digital transformation is occurring faster than most people realize, and is impacting every component of the IT organization. Some of the many catalysts include users and applications moving outside the traditional perimeter, users accessing applications that are anywhere, and utilizing many...

Phishing in the Wild: A New Threat Research Paper

Phishing is an extremely common attack vector that has been used for many years, and the potential impact and risks involved are well known to most Internet users. Despite this, phishing is still a highly relevant attack method being used in the wild, affecting many people. The question is, how c...

How to Make Your Demo Environment Easy, Accessible...AND Secure

A common misconception I've heard in the field is that a tradeoff exists between easy access for applications and network security. For example, companies want to allow their sales team, partners, and prospects access into demo environments. With traditional access solutions, there is a question ...

How-To: Add Timing-Allow-Origin Header to Improve Your Website Performance Measurements

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Who is doing what on your network?

Over the past few months, while talking to customers, the topic of Zero Trust Architecture keeps coming up. Seemingly everyone is thinking of implementing the model - which we fully encourage! One of the core components of the principle is the ability to inspect and log all network and system...

Addressing the Availability of the ACAEngine

In my experience as a Solutions Engineer, I've seen many companies strive for 100% uptime of enterprise applications. However, this is a goal that cannot happen by itself. Careful thought must be put into the underlying architecture that delivers these critical enterprise applications. Recently,...

Take a Tour of New Routed Dashboard

As a product manager, there are few things more rewarding than finally putting your product into the hands of your customer for the first time. We've been working on the new Routed Dashboard for some time, and I've personally spoken to many of you in terms of what would make our new interface mor...

Actionable Threat Intelligence, Tailored to You

We are very excited to be launching the next generation of our Client Reputation product. This update takes Client Reputation a huge step further in providing our customers with truly actionable intelligence tailored for them. It computes an even better assessment of the real risk that every...

How You Get There Matters: "Middle-Mile" RUM to Drive CDN Strategy

Traditional RUM products make use of APIs Navigation-Timing, Resource-Timing, etc. built into browsers to help measure the performance characteristics of the loading of a web page. That is, they do their best to quantify the work required by the browser when rendering a web page. APM products use...

Akamai 2018 Spring Release, In A Nutshell

Progressing Towards Our Future in The Cloud, Together As organizations continue to fuel and execute on their digital transformation ambitions, they're increasingly finding significant business agility and cost savings by adopting cloud, multi-cloud, or hybrid architectures. Availability, security...

TLS 1.3 support is coming this spring

While March brings NCAA Madness, this year it also brought TLS 1.3, which will be coming to all Akamai customers soon! Let's give some background. TLS 1.3 is latest revision of the TLS protocol. It is also known by its older name, SSL. It is the protocol used for all secure HTTP connections on th...