Neha Jain September 17, 2020 11:30 PM FFEM: A Simple Device to Crowdsource Water Quality D ... Akamai has been a strong advocate for water conservation by supporting early-stage innovations. This World Water Monitoring Day (September 18), we present the inspiring work of one of our innovators -- Foundation For Environmental Monitoring (FFEM), based in Bangalore, India -- that is working on developing open source devices to monitor key environmental parameters such as water and soil. Continue reading

Or Katz September 17, 2020 8:00 AM Rethinking Defensive Strategy at the Edge, Part 3: S ... Our three-part blog series, Re-thinking Defensive Strategy at the Edge, has been focusing on outlining a new defensive edge strategy for today's enterprise. We began with a discussion of data and indicators. Most recently, our second post focused on using risk signals and correlating them for improved security controls. This last post in the series will transition the discussion from data and correlation into how to use these to enable Continue reading

Siddharth Deshpande September 16, 2020 2:30 PM Getting Sassy About SASE - the Value of Edge Securit ... As a former Gartner analyst and now a strategist at Akamai, I have had several conversations with CISOs across the world on the topic of 'designing a future-ready security architecture'. Continue reading

Or Katz September 16, 2020 8:00 AM Rethinking Defensive Strategy at the Edge, Part 2: R ... In the first post in our blog series Rethinking Defensive Strategy at the Edge, we began to outline why a new defensive edge strategy is needed for today's enterprise. As previously mentioned, the strategy enhances those in place and introduces another layer of defense that includes the following three components: data and indicators, risk-based signals and entities, and protective actions. This post explores user entities as well as risk-based signals Continue reading

Or Katz September 14, 2020 8:00 AM Rethinking Defensive Strategy at the Edge, Part 1: A ... In recent years, new enterprise remote access architectures and frameworks have been introduced, such as Zero Trust Access (ZTA). Those concepts have driven changes in the way the network perimeter has been defined -- specifically, from the outside in, not the inside out. Access to applications and services usually start from users and devices outside of traditional on-premises network perimeters. Continue reading

Ari Weil September 11, 2020 3:04 PM Unprecedented Levels of Ransom DDoS Extortion Attack ... The FBI has released a flash warning that thousands of organizations around the world, and across multiple industries, have been threatened with DDoS attacks unless they pay a bitcoin ransom. This ransom DDoS, or RDoS, threat was covered by Akamai's Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT) in a Security Alert released on August 17, 2020. Continue reading

Ziv Eli September 11, 2020 12:15 PM When Hackers Take Advantage of Your Trusted Vendors As JavaScript-based client-side attacks continue to evolve, we see how attackers are getting more sophisticated and employing more advanced techniques. Unfortunately, it has been proven many times that any website partner can be exploited to carry out an attack. In the past month, we witnessed one of the most popular and trusted vendors being used as a credit card data exfiltration vector -- Google Analytics. Continue reading

Renny Shen September 9, 2020 8:00 AM Web Application and API Protection -- From SQL Injec ... SQL injections were first discovered in 1998, and over 20 years later, they remain an unsolved challenge and an ongoing threat for every web application and API. The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) highlighted injection flaws in its Top 10 lists for both web application security risks and API security threats. Continue reading