The Akamai Blog

When Akamai Costa Rica won the 'Great Place to Work' award, we were delighted. It's a wonderful achievement that really means a lot to Akamai and to all the collaborators who have worked here. It highlights the great working environment that Akamai have created for us. But it also shines a light on all the contributions made by our collaborators over the years.

While examining my honeypot logs and digging through the newly downloaded binaries last week, I noticed a large compressed file. I figured it would be a crypto miner, typically a tar archive and gzip (normally erroneously) compressed. I moved the archive over to my test lab and started examining the contents.

A groundbreaking increase in security incidents is affecting governments around the world. In light of this, the United States issued a formal order to implement a robust set of security measures designed to improve the security of federal systems. In his most recent executive order, President Biden acknowledged that the United States and many other governments around the world are facing increasing malicious cyberattacks. In order to prevent, and recover from security incidents, the President is pushing to significantly improve the government's security stack, including the implementation of multi-factor authentication (MFA). In this post, I'll discuss how the government's plan to leverage MFA could be even better.

A groundbreaking increase in security incidents is affecting governments around the world. In light of this, the United States issued a formal order to implement a robust set of security measures designed to improve the security of federal systems.

In the present age, patients now use smartphone apps to schedule doctor's visits, contact insurance companies, and get prescriptions instead of picking up the phone.

We all know the damage ransomware can do - but how does ransomware actually spread? Our blog shows you how - and how it can be stopped.

With so many people around the globe seeking socially distanced fun and solace, at-home entertainment has never been more important. XITE aims to offer the best music video experience in the world. Akamai is delighted that this exciting, interactive video platform chose to work with us to provide high-quality, secure online video, which enables XITE to deliver on the experience its fans have come to love.

Now that we've written the framework of our code, let's layer in EdgeKV (EKV), our distributed key-value store database.

By the time you read this post, the 2021 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR) will be published. Akamai has been one of the many partners contributing data to this report for more than half a decade. We greatly value the time, effort, and dedicated data science that goes into providing this level of research to the security community.

Akamai employees across the globe showed up in full force for Akamai Earth Month 2021 -- our campaign to help employees take small actions at home and in their community to make a difference for the planet.

You interact with more than just customers on your website. Bots make up a disproportionate amount of traffic, which can skew human behavior analysis data -- and cause you to make the wrong business decisions.

A lot of companies talk about edge computing today, but at Akamai, we've been doing it for more than 20 years.

In Akamai's paper, "Inside the World of Video Pirates," we discovered why digital intellectual property theft (aka "piracy") is possibly the most misunderstood form of cybercrime facing the TV, sports, and film industries.

Tax scams are some of the oldest scams in a criminal's book, and they're highly attractive to criminals for many reasons.

Akamai's Ohana ERG launched in 2015, along with a number of other ERGs, with the mission to broaden and facilitate the inclusion and contributions of employees of African American, Black, Hispanic, and Latin American descent and association.

As with any standardization effort, development of 5G specifications accounted for numerous technology trends and new use cases.

On April 20, 2021, the Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released an alert on the exploitation of Pulse Connect Secure Vulnerabilities with Alert AA21-110A: Exploitation of Pulse Connect Secure Vulnerabilities, as well as Emergency Directive (ED) 21-03, after a FireEye blog shed light on security incidents involving compromises of Pulse Secure VPN appliances.

Reflecting on the cybersecurity threat landscape in 2020, we can't overlook the massive changes that landed on us. Global security attacks increased at a significant pace between 2019 and 2020, and the COVID-19 pandemic only deepened these troubling conditions.