The Akamai Blog

Learn the differences between synthetic tests and real user monitoring, and discover 11 web performance metrics beyond the Core Web Vitals — and how to use them.

Akamai researchers have analyzed a critical vulnerability in Microsoft's CryptoAPI that would allow an attacker to masquerade as a legitimate entity.

Learn about Google's Core Web Vitals — LCP, FID, and CLS — and how improving them can enhance your users’ experience and SEO ranking.

Read the year-end review of developer highlights for 2022.

Read about how EdgeWorkers reduced errors resulting from resource limit constraints — unlocking even more opportunities for businesses

AkaRank can overcome biases in current domain popularity lists and help ensure the best threat coverage and user experience.

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

In 2023, the tech industry must address workforce diversity, manage cyber risks and regulations, and understand how innovation can challenge cyber resiliency.

Read about how organizations need microsegmentation to identify and remediate ransomware attacks, and the ransomware questions they need to answer.

Effectively managing bot traffic requires a combination of strong detection and response strategies. Here, we explore Akamai’s methods for implementing both.

Get up to speed with web performance, the Core Web Vitals, and other metrics to increase your revenue and rank your page higher on Google.

Read about the global impact of KmsdBot, a botnet that hit our honeypot earlier this year, and why the evidence is pointing toward it being a DDoS for hire.

Optimizing the cost-effectiveness of cloud infrastructure requires the careful placement of workloads in the environments best suited to their execution.

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

Do you need a Zero Trust solution if you have EDR/XDR installed? The short answer is yes — you need both.

Akamai researchers explore two new vulnerabilities that can be exploited to lead to denial-of-service attacks against container and session services.

Use data from real users to improve the user experience (UX) of your site or app, and draw on real behavior and outcomes for effective UX decision-making.

Learn about the recent Akamai APJ Partner Summit 2022, including new revenue opportunities for our partners – and the awards we gave.

MS-RPC is a widely used protocol, but not much security research is done on it. In this blog, see an overview of MS-RPC and their security mechanisms.

Microsegmentation can stop a ransomware attack from moving laterally across your organization and prevent malicious behavior.