Connected Devices

Cyberattacks Evolve as the Hospitality and Travel Industry Adapts
While the world fights against the COVID-19 pandemic, cybercriminals are out in full force with a multitude of scams designed to take advantage of the confusion and panic. COVID-19 has -- by ...

Healthcare: Elite Data
The healthcare industry is overwhelmingly reliant on internet-connected devices as solutions. There’s no doubt some of those devices advance patient care and even critical response. Healthcare possesses elite data making ...

Balancing Protection with Performance to Double Down on DDoS
Combating DDoS attacks with the highest quality of mitigation means having the right platform, processes, and people in place. At Akamai, we're recognized as a leader for DDoS mitigation solutions based on ...

Akamai’s Polymorphic AI Framework Preemptively Manages Bots
Too many security efforts react to threats as they come. While security teams often succeed through Herculean efforts, being constantly under siege takes its toll on your resources. The relentless barrage of ...

Making the Edge Come Alive
In April 2019, Netflix viewers streamed 164 million hours of on-demand content per day. Fast forward a year. In April 2020, Twitch streamed 55 million hours per day. The vast majority of ...

You Are Here: Giving Your Users the Local Experience They Deserve
Locality matters for most things in life: weather, health care, shopping, product reviews, dinner reservations, social networking, data privacy, news, sports ... the list goes on and on in our ever more ...

Serverless at the Edge: Enabling Magical Unicorns
Before we dive straight into the magical unicorn from heaven that is serverless computing embedded within the CDN edge (a direct customer quote that I want on a team T-shirt soon), let's ...

20 Years of Edge Computing
How long will you wait for something? That depends on what you're waiting for, of course. But in your daily interactions, think about how many "things" you interact with where you expect ...

Shifting Strategies
Formula One is always a sport I wanted to enjoy more than I actually did. I found the strategy always more compelling than the actual racing, which was usually just a procession ...

Why Traditional Security Is Failing Us, Part 2
This is the second part of a two-part series that explores the reasons behind the failure of security technologies to protect companies and their data from emerging threats in the age of ...