Category Archives: Connected Devices

Balancing Protection with Performance to Double Down on DDoS

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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 our Edge DNS, CDN edge-scrubbing, and cloud-scrubbing platforms that are designed to keep your internet-facing assets, services, and critical infrastructure protected. Continue reading Balancing Protection with Performance to Double Down on DDoS→

Akamai’s Polymorphic AI Framework Preemptively Manages Bots

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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 bot attacks will eventually crack the human- and system-based methods to block or mitigate them. Continue reading Akamai’s Polymorphic AI Framework Preemptively Manages Bots→

Making the Edge Come Alive

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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 that was live.
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You Are Here: Giving Your Users the Local Experience They Deserve

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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 connected lives. From direct user interaction on … Continue reading You Are Here: Giving Your Users the Local Experience They Deserve→

You Are Here: Giving Your Users the Local Experience They Deserve

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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 connected lives. From direct user interaction on your flagship website or app to IoT device data collection and transformation, where your target audience is and where they are going is essential to providing the experience they need, want, and deserve. This experience needs to honor the privacy of the user, ensure the integrity and safe handling of personal data, and provide an accurate localized view of your key content — all while being highly performant, available, and secure. Continue reading You Are Here: Giving Your Users the Local Experience They Deserve→

Male Chastity Device Comes with Massive Security Flaws

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Smart sex toy vulnerable to hacks, researchers say — which could expose users’ most sensitive bits (of data) to cybercriminals. Continue reading Male Chastity Device Comes with Massive Security Flaws→

Serverless at the Edge: Enabling Magical Unicorns

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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 first level-set on some basic concepts of computing. In the conte… Continue reading Serverless at the Edge: Enabling Magical Unicorns→

Serverless at the Edge: Enabling Magical Unicorns

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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 first level-set on some basic concepts of computing. In the context of web experiences, IoT device messaging, and really anything else that travels across the public internet, compute can happen in three venues: Continue reading Serverless at the Edge: Enabling Magical Unicorns→

20 Years of Edge Computing

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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 the response to be instantaneous – tapping on mobile apps, logging in and transacting with a retailer or a bank, selecting and viewing content on a streaming media device, interacting with a connected device like a light, doorbell, or even a car, or checking in for a train or flight. These are all services that require real-time processing of information, at massive scale, and are examples of where edge computing can make the difference between a great experience and a really frustrating one by bringing processing closer to devices and data. Continue reading 20 Years of Edge Computing→