For decades, Akamai has been focused on solving tough problems for our customers. We started by addressing the challenges of the ?World Wide Wait,? and quickly started to leverage our edge network?s scale, proximity to users, and expert operations staff to mitigate security threats for our customers. Today, Akamai has category-leading solutions including DDoS, web app and API protection, bot management, and Zero Trust Network Access. Given the incredible surge in ransomware attacks, we are excited to be adding Zero Trust segmentation to our portfolio through the acquisition of Guardicore.
Creating an encrypted HTTPS website depends on a lot more than simply throwing a digital certificate at it and hoping for the best. In fact, Transport Layer Security (TLS) and HTTPS misconfigurations are now so commonplace that in the 2021 OWASP Top 10, Cryptographic Failures now comes in second place....
Last year, Akamai released research on obfuscation techniques being used by cybercriminals to create malicious JavaScript. The code is unreadable, un-debuggable, and as a result, much more challenging to analyze and detect.