The Akamai Blog

"Working from home 2021" was the title of my talk at The Cyber Security Summit in January, and the strikethrough is important.

There's a fascinating human phenomenon often studied in the behavioral science field called the intention-action gap.

Gambling industry-related web traffic delivered by Akamai jumped 31% over the category average for all of Q4 2020 on March 31st.

We all know that we're on camera pretty much constantly -- most coffee shops, convenience stores, and even offices employ security cameras for protection. But what happens when those devices built to keep us safe become unsafe?

To Akamai's Co-Founder Danny Lewin, calling someone a "Titan" was the highest praise he would give. Danny himself was a remarkably talented and hard-working leader whose heart, passion, and spirit still inspire us.

The first rule of edge compute thought leadership is: don't overuse the term edge. Over the course of my blog series on the topic, I have defined the edge, explained edge computing, and discussed the economics of edge computing.

Criminals love tax season. The stress and urgency surrounding this time of year makes the victim pool highly vulnerable to various types of schemes.

In our 2020 DDoS retrospective, we highlighted the twists and turns of a very, very active threat landscape. As a quick refresher, we mitigated some of the largest attacks ever seen (1.44 Tbps and 809 Mpps);

At Akamai, the Enterprise Security Red Team (ESRT) continuously strives to evaluate the security of both our external and internal services.

Akamai hit a new milestone last week when web traffic delivered across our edge network peaked at 200 terabits per second (Tbps).

The past month has been a very dynamic time in the world of security for hackers and threat researchers, but it has been an extended nightmare for CSOs responsible for securing their enterprise networks.

The Akamai Foundation was set up in 2018 to improve the impact and focus of our long-term philanthropic activities.

Recent attacks against Akamai customers have leveraged a networking protocol known as protocol 33, or Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP).

If you receive a ransom note, it?s already too late. Detect and stop ransomware attacks early in the kill chain with these 4 techniques.

The edge is becoming more critical in a world of 5G and IoT. I've seen the evolution from 1x to 3G to 4G and now 5G over the many years I've worked in the mobile space, and 5G and IoT will drive the biggest changes we have seen on the edge in 10 or 20 years.

Akamai Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. has chosen the grantees for Cohort 2 of Accelerator Program for Early-Stage Innovations in Water.

In my previous blog, I discussed the important role multi-factor authentication (MFA) plays in further securing access to enterprise and consumer services. We also established the fact that although MFA increases authentication security and decreases the risk of account takeover, MFA can, and is, being bypassed in the wild.

There are many crypto mining malware variants infecting systems on the internet. On Friday, March 4, 2021, I noticed an interesting hit in my honeypot logs. The binary it captured stood out, as it was rather large at 4MB. I immediately thought it would be a crypto miner written in the Go language. I was correct. This one however, has some newer exploits it's using for proliferation.

The use of authentication factors, one of the most fundamental and well understood concepts in information security, enables secure access to applications, services, and networks. It can affect an enterprise's security posture, however, as the drastic increase in data breaches and system attacks are largely based on compromised authentication.