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Dogged Persistence — The Name of the Game for One DDoS Attacker

DDoS attacks are relatively easy to launch from a number of online booter services, and the availability of cryptocurrencies for payment has made it easy to remain anonymous. Attackers can try their ...
Tokyo Streaming Traffic Runs Rings Around Rio

Tokyo Streaming Traffic Runs Rings Around Rio

| | performance, Web Performance
With 35 medals at stake, the last full day of competition during the games in Tokyo generated the highest video streaming traffic for 30-plus customers on the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform ...
Akamai's Commitment to Reliability

Akamai’s Commitment to Reliability

For more than 20 years, Akamai has worked very hard to earn the trust and confidence of our customers and partners by developing services that can be relied upon to be available ...
Zero Trust Should Not Give IT a Bad Name

Zero Trust Should Not Give IT a Bad Name

Maybe you've just found out that your company's IT organization is implementing Zero Trust. Does that mean they don't trust you? "Zero Trust" sure sounds that way. Maybe you've read about it ...
Holiday Readiness: What You Should Be Thinking About Four Months Out

Holiday Readiness: What You Should Be Thinking About Four Months Out

This is a blog series about Akamai solutions that can help you manage the surge of traffic (both good and bad) that will be hitting the retail industry during the holiday season ...
Software-Defined Networking Concept Adoption at Akamai

Software-Defined Networking Concept Adoption at Akamai

Akamai engineering has adopted new technology concepts to enhance and expand routing capabilities at the edge. Previously, Akamai's traffic-steering capabilities were mainly focused on DNS-based routing. In this article, we would like ...
World-Class OTT Streaming from MwareTV with Akamai

World-Class OTT Streaming from MwareTV with Akamai

Since the onset of the pandemic, home entertainment has never been more important. Millions of users across the globe have turned to over-the-top (OTT) streaming and live TV to bring much-needed diversion ...
All Access Is (or Should Be) Remote Access

All Access Is (or Should Be) Remote Access

With the transition to remote work, we often hear the term remote access used in unison. Typically, remote work application access is facilitated via a remote access mechanism and, presumably, local work ...
Zero Trust Network Access Is an Oxymoron

Zero Trust Network Access Is an Oxymoron

Though Zero Trust is really quite simple and should be viewed as a very strong form of the age-old principle of least privilege, that does not mean that it is the same ...
Zero Trust: Not As Scary As It Sounds

Zero Trust: Not As Scary As It Sounds

If the term Zero Trust has been popping up in your news feed with astonishing frequency lately, you may be tempted to think that Zero Trust must be a brand-new technology cooked ...