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

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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 hand at DDoS for little effort and money, and in relative safety. They give it a go, try a few things (vector, endpoint, and scale changes), and for those with effective defenses, the attacker eventually burns out. Continue reading Dogged Persistence — The Name of the Game for One DDoS Attacker→

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

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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.
The beginning of August is upon us, and if you haven’t already started th… Continue reading Holiday Readiness: What You Should Be Thinking About Four Months Out→

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

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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.

The beginning of August is upon us, and if you haven’t already started thinking about the busiest time of the year, now is a good time to do so. Whether you’re an experienced veteran of managing peak traffic or new to the game, Q4 can bring surprises when it comes to performance and security. And while it’s nearly impossible to prepare for every situation, there are a number of options and solutions available at Akamai to help manage the surge of traffic (both good and bad) that will be hitting the retail industry during the holiday season, especially on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Continue reading Holiday Readiness: What You Should Be Thinking About Four Months Out→

Anyone for Alphabet Soup? ZTNA, SWGs, MFA, and More: Lessons Learned from Fed Day CyberThreats 2021

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Last week, we gathered a few of the most prominent leaders and experts from every corner of the federal space to talk about all things cybersecurity and digital transformation. Discussions ranged from the move toward Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), and effectively managing identities and access with a secure web gateway (SWG) to keep data safe, to what the executive order on cybersecurity means for agencies — time to implement a multi-factor authentication (MFA) solution. Continue reading Anyone for Alphabet Soup? ZTNA, SWGs, MFA, and More: Lessons Learned from Fed Day CyberThreats 2021→

Akamai Summarizes Service Disruption (RESOLVED)

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At 15:46 UTC today, a software configuration update triggered a bug in the DNS system, the system that directs browsers to websites. This caused a disruption impacting availability of some customer websites. The disruption lasted up to an hour. Upon rolling back the software configuration update, the services resumed normal operations. Continue reading Akamai Summarizes Service Disruption (RESOLVED)→

Targeted Cache Control

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Content delivery networks (CDNs) have been around and have evolved over a long time (in internet years). They all speak HTTP and you can safely rely on them to work with just about anything else that speaks HTTP. This is the beauty of standards — HTTP in this case. What you cannot count on is there being a standard way to configure them. In some cases, this is understandable: they all have different advanced features, after all. But when it comes to the basics, such as controlling how content is cached, it just makes sense to have one common way to do it. Standards tend to mean simpler documentation and fewer oddities (read: bugs). The winners are the users who end up saving time and gaining agility. Continue reading Targeted Cache Control→

New Admin Portal for Akamai Enterprise Application Access

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The definition of a user has evolved to comprise much more than an employee, making secure access to the right application, for the right user, at the right time difficult and complex. Akamai Enterprise Application Access (EAA) is a unique cloud archit… Continue reading New Admin Portal for Akamai Enterprise Application Access→