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It is possible that the need to upgrade and replace systems in the lead-up to 2038 will force the retirement of some remaining IPv4-only systems and networks.

The breathtaking pace at which everyone and everything is becoming connected is having a profound effect on digital business, from delivering exceptional experiences, to ensuring the security of your customers, applications, and workforce....

By the numbers, Akamai's scale, reach and ability to help brands connect users to immersive and immediate online experiences while protecting their businesses from threats, is quite impressive. While I'm proud that Akamai connects with billions of devices daily and...

Honeypots are a popular way to protect data centers and learn about attackers. Learn the difference between high and low interaction honeypot security.

Over the past year, Akamai Enterprise Threat Research team monitored the usage of one particular phishing toolkit in the wild. We previously wrote about this phishing toolkit as "Three Questions Quiz". The "Quiz" toolkit is not new to the threat landscape, as its been used in many phishing campaigns in recent years. Our goal here is to present new insights on the evolution and scale of usage of the toolkit in the wild. The most surprising insight was the variety of commercial brands being abused as part of these phishing scams that were all using the same toolkit, but wearing a different face.

We continuously find that the most basic attack methods that worked ten years ago still work and will probably continue to be effective in the future.

Rumi said, "Clean out your ears, don't listen for what you already know." And that's exactly what leaders at Akamai India did during the pilot event of Flip, a reverse mentoring event, held earlier this month. High potential women from...

Continuous monitoring of the Akamai Edge Platform for security vulnerabilities is an integral part of all engineering efforts at Akamai. In addition to our internal vulnerability management program, we engage with third-party assessors to periodically perform external scans of our systems since this is required for compliance with security standards such as PCI DSS and FedRAMP.

Learn mitigation options that prevent your site from JavaScript skimmer code threats and protects your customers.

Companies of all sizes and in every industry use APIs for a staggering range of activities. Just a few examples: APIs make it easy to include weather forecasts in apps, recommend driving routes where you are least likely to have an accident, and allow banks to comply with open banking regulations.

Security response headers are a critical security capability that all organizations should consider. This blog post is the first in a series that will discuss different security headers and go in-depth with how to configure them for maximum benefit.

The market and marketing of Web property domain names is changing. Companies prefer to promote top level domains (TLDs), have the option of selecting brand-relevant domain extensions (e.g. SaaS.com), and no longer need country-relevant domains to optimize search engine result rankings.

Diversity and Inclusion is a mission-critical goal at Akamai. In support of this goal, the India Learning and Development team in collaboration with the Women's Forum India (employee resource group), launched an initiative that aims to foster a culture of...

Akamai was fortunate to have Danny Lewin as a co-founder and role model for our business, our culture, and our sense of adventure and accomplishment. It was Danny who helped to instill the Big Idea that we would change the...

In our research we use actual traces, collected from different production datacenters.

The underlying protocols of the Internet continue to evolve, and massive events such as the World Cup are a great opportunity to see this in action.

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While we still have a ways to go before residual users of IPv4 are truly "laggards", we are at a stage where the use of IPv6 should be considered the norm.