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Wizards 2020: Celebrating a community of innovators!

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Wizards is a global ideation program that allows Akamai employees to submit their innovative ideas and contribute to the business transformation of Akamai. The program has been running for eight years and has received more than 5000 idea submissions. We are proud that Akamai products like Page Integrity and Enterprise Threat Protector were once ideas on the Wizards portal, as were more than 45 other successful suggestions. Continue reading Wizards 2020: Celebrating a community of innovators!→

Wizards 2020: Celebrating a community of innovators!

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Wizards is a global ideation program that allows Akamai employees to submit their innovative ideas and contribute to the business transformation of Akamai. The program has been running for eight years and has received more than 5000 idea submissions. W… Continue reading Wizards 2020: Celebrating a community of innovators!→

Phishing: Holiday Season Attacks on the Rise

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Phishing continues to be a major attack vector, and it’s surprising just how many security incidents and breaches start with an employee clicking on a link in a carefully crafted phishing email (and sometimes doing the same with a not-so-well crafted phishing email — see this example). Continue reading Phishing: Holiday Season Attacks on the Rise→

Akamai + Fingerbank: How an open source community can transform security

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Isn’t it amazing how seemingly simple decisions can have far-reaching effects? When the Inverse team in Montreal took over PacketFence in 2008, it was an open source (OS) solution. They recognized the inherent value in keeping it as such. In so doing, they didn’t just launch a product–they created a global community. By making a trusted network access control (NAC) solution freely available, they planted the seeds of an ever-growing community of users that now numbers more than 5,000 deployments worldwide and more than 7 million endpoints. Continue reading Akamai + Fingerbank: How an open source community can transform security→

Our ESG Commitment: Investing in a Better World

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Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues are quickly emerging as a key concern for investors. To use a musical analogy, the bow is just resting on the first string, with more notes sure to follow. At Akamai, our ESG instrument is well tuned a… Continue reading Our ESG Commitment: Investing in a Better World→

Our ESG Commitment: Investing in a Better World

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Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues are quickly emerging as a key concern for investors. To use a musical analogy, the bow is just resting on the first string, with more notes sure to follow. At Akamai, our ESG instrument is well tuned and ready for the symphony to come, as evidenced by our 2020 Sustainability Report released this week. Continue reading Our ESG Commitment: Investing in a Better World→

Working Together with Our Customers to Build a Sustainable Future

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By now, we hope you’ve read Monday’s and Tuesday’s blog posts announcing the release of our annual sustainability report, our sustainability program, and the technical innovation behind it. Continue reading Working Together with Our Customers to Build a Sustainable Future→

Maintaining an Energy-Efficient Edge Platform

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Over the past 20 years, we’ve seen a lot of growth at Akamai. When I started at Akamai, we used to have traffic peaks of almost 200 Mbps. From that fledgling startup, Akamai has now grown to such a scale that we almost doubled network capacity in 2020 … Continue reading Maintaining an Energy-Efficient Edge Platform→

Maintaining an Energy-Efficient Edge Platform

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Over the past 20 years, we’ve seen a lot of growth at Akamai. When I started at Akamai, we used to have traffic peaks of almost 200 Mbps. From that fledgling startup, Akamai has now grown to such a scale that we almost doubled network capacity in 2020 and were able to serve peaks of almost 200 Tbps. In short, just like the internet, Akamai has undergone quite the evolution. But as we’ve grown, so have our environmental impacts. In fact, the internet as a whole is responsible for more than 2% of global emissions, having the same impact as the airline industry. Our online streaming, learning, working, shopping, and playing habits have all started to add up. Continue reading Maintaining an Energy-Efficient Edge Platform→

Sustainability at Akamai: An Efficient Platform Powered by Energy Aggregation

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If I had a dollar for every time I heard "2020 was an unprecedented year", I could fund a clean energy project myself. And while we’re tired of hearing it, it’s true. Among the pandemic, U.S. presidential election, social justice movements, the… Continue reading Sustainability at Akamai: An Efficient Platform Powered by Energy Aggregation→