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Akamai's Women's Forum Americas, OHANA and In Reach Employee Resource Groups recently hosted Cross ERG 'Change the Rules' Keynote - Celebration of Black History Month in our Chicago office. We were excited to have notable Michelle Silverthorn, CEO of Inclusion Nation, a company that focuses on improving recruitment, retention, and the promotion of diverse professionals, as the keynote speaker. It is not often that we have an external speaker join us and have the impact Michelle had with her talk on Changing the Rules. Her stories resonated with the audience and her actionable approach was most appreciated.

Overview Being a Content Delivery Network (CDN) platform, sometimes you can see fractions of attacks on the wire. In this blog, we will focus on phishing websites that, while not being delivered by the Akamai platform, are referring to or...

By now, we are all subject in one way or another to the far-reaching impact of COVID-19. As we see on the news each day, the numbers of those infected by this deadly coronavirus continue to grow in terrifying increments. And even for those of us without family members or friends directly impacted by the virus, life has profoundly changed.

This week we?re announcing two new capabilities in our Centra Security Platform that further deliver on that mission: Support for cloud-native resources and AI-powered segmentation.

Recruitment scams are a serious, but often overlooked risk to job seekers. Those responsible for these schemes often play on the victim's stress levels or professional ego, by using authority to offer something that could be life changing, often with large salaries. I've personally experienced a recruitment scam. In this post, we'll explore the scam that targeted me, and the steps I took that prevented me from becoming a victim.

Guardicore?s Threat Intelligence Firewall blocks connections to malicious IPs, limiting security attack surface before reaching critical assets.

Earlier this year, Akamai's Enterprise team tackled the problem of DGA detection in the wild by using Neural Networks, essentially creating a state-of-the-art solution for near online detection of DGA communication....

The global adoption of IPv6 is important to the future of the internet and Akamai has been committed to helping move IPv6 deployment forward ever since we launched production IPv6 support in 2012.

Global efforts to produce and distribute the COVID-19 vaccine continue to race ahead. But in many cases, that race is an uphill climb. Beyond the challenges in making enough of the vaccine, educating the public, and the logistics of distributing the doses, there is a new challenge. Bots.

We continue to see large-scale online security attacks affecting corporations and public institutions. These attacks are becoming more and more sophisticated, making it harder to protect yourself. The constant evolution of attacks requires innovative solutions that only Akamai can provide....

The Service Worker web API is a powerful new API for web browsers. During our research, we have found several ways attackers can leverage this API to enhance their low-to-medium risk findings into a powerful and meaningful attack. By...

Guardicore Centra v 31 includes such features as user-based rules and a threat intelligence firewall. Read more about the updates and improvements.

Leverage the benefits of VDI without opening yourself to security risk. Guardicore provides user access management and microsegmentation for Citrix.

Summary On January 14, 2020, CERT CC published an advisory warning of the potential use of Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) to cache malicious traffic. Akamai acknowledges this issue and has been aware of similar research in the past. This advisory...

People from around the globe are looking for instant and uninterrupted access to streaming services, on any device and in any location. But delivering high-quality streams that can easily scale to meet audience demand is no easy task. To better...

Privileged Access Management is part of a zero-trust model. Guardicore strengthens its offering by integrating with CyberArk.

Global Traffic Management, or GTM, is a DNS-based load balancing service that offers application owners a level of flexibility and insight that is unmatched by traditional on-prem solutions.

Recently, at Akamai, we launched the Akamai Foundation, to continue to reach a broader, more diverse range of young people with quality Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education. We believe that this work is a vital part of securing...

A group calling themselves "Cozy Bear" has been emailing various companies with an extortion letter, demanding payment and threatening targeted DDoS attacks if their demands are not met....

Success is a tricky word to define. It means something different to everyone and can only be measured by an individual themselves. Often, success is seen as being about what an individual achieves, rather than about who they grow to...