The Akamai Blog

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.

While those of us in places like the U.S. are experiencing some relief with access to the COVID-19 vaccine, it has been heartbreaking to see surges in infection, hospitalization, and death across the globe, including the dire situation in India.

Moving everything closer to the edge is the key to delivering better, faster experiences to people through billions of devices around the world.

There are 4.66 billion (yes, with a B) internet users. Rough math will tell us that's three in every five people around the world -- talk about lessening the six degrees. I see head nods and shoulder shrugs. 4.66 billion people?

Akamai has been named a Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Web Application Firewalls (for the second time).

When paired with our new EdgeKV distributed key-value database, the Akamai EdgeWorkers serverless platform gives you the ability to do powerful things at the CDN level.

"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.