The Akamai Blog

Every Patch Tuesday stirs up the community. See Akamai's September insights and recommendations on what to focus on, and patch, patch, patch!

On Monday, September 12, 2022, Akamai successfully detected and mitigated the now-largest DDoS attack ever launched.

Akamai explores trends of recent application-layer DDoS attacks across the Financial Services industry

Video streaming is increasing and so is video piracy. Learn more about these types of piracy cybercrimes, and how to be proactive in stopping them.

In Q2, cyberterrorists targeted a record number of customer locations (groupings of assets based on cloud presence or physical data center) with DDoS attacks.

Akamai was named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Cloud Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) report, and was positioned highest for Ability to Execute and furthest for Completeness of Vision.

Preparing for a post-pandemic holiday season means managing for peak application and system performance.

Preparing for a post-pandemic holiday season means managing for peak application and system performance.

With v0.9 of the Akamai CLI for Terraform, application development teams can build on infrastructure as code (IaC) and maintain rapid development without compromising security.

As part of Akamai’s focus on serving local market needs, we are thrilled to announce new Prolexic connectivity options via Megaport Elastic Fabric in Australia.

Learn how Akamai Guardicore Segmentation can help you reveal vulnerable servers and applications, and stop exploitation.

This August’s developer update brings you some of the things we’ve been most excited to tell you about. We’re highlighting Terraform updates and more.

Jessica Scherlag discusses the importance of social media platforms, her unconventional career path, and the benefits of pushing past your comfort zone.

Planning a multi-factor authentication (MFA) rollout? Take a look at the six lessons we learned when we deployed Akamai MFA.

In this blog, see how an off-by-one error could lead to domain controller access in Microsoft Server Service.

Ensuring the security of billions of mobile devices is a priority. Learn how Akamai aims to protect and secure every SIM as we continually adapt to new threats.

Tim Vereecke, technical solutions architect at Akamai, discusses how he uses a developer-first mindset to find internet performance solutions.

On August 10, 2022, security researcher James Kettle presented a set of novel HTTP request smuggling attacks in his Black Hat talk,

Announcing our new agent for MacOS endpoints. Of all the leading Zero Trust segmentation providers, Akamai is the only vendor to support MacOS.