The Akamai Blog

Threat Intelligence feeds are an integral part of any security strategy. In this new research see how Akamai researchers were able to find 8 million malicious domains every month to further protect our customers.

Forrester’s 2022 evaluation of web application firewalls ranks Akamai as a Leader with the top score among all evaluated vendors in the attack detection criterion.

Akamai plans to add more than a dozen data centers, equipped with Linode’s full product suite – across North America, APAC, LATAM and Europe by the end of 2023.

What does the future look like for consumer-to-internet and OTT media services in India? Here are six thought-provoking insights from CXOs.

Learn about Akamai’s voxel art contest, the updates to EdgeWorkers and EdgeKV demo sites, and how the beta Test Center CLI allows you to test the behavior of configuration changes on your own in this month’s blog.

Purple Fox is an active malware campaign targeting Windows machines. Up until recently, Purple Fox’s operators infected machines by using exploit kits and phishing emails.

Guardicore has discovered FritzFrog, a sophisticated peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet that has been actively breaching SSH servers since January 2020.

Senior Service Architect Prachi Shah discusses how customer feedback plays a crucial role in product development at Akamai.

Learn how Akamai's Client-Side Protection & Compliance tracks In-App browser injections to make sure sensitive information is kept safe and private.

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.