Blog Listing: Security

We wanted to give you some timely information on the latest update to Akamai’s Web Application Protector. The update includes these changes (click to jump to any selection): Two new attack groups Renamed “Web DoS Attack” group Changes to the home screen Support for wildcard hostnames Coming soon: protection improvements for API traffic Here are further details on each item:...

Starting today, we invite you to share your expertise at Akamai’s premier event of the year: Akamai Edge World 2019 in Las Vegas this June. The Edge World conference is the center of gravity where 1,000 experts like you will learn and share ways to supercharge business through the transformative power of the Edge. The call for presentations for developers...

GraphQL, the Facebook-incubated data query language for APIs, is a fast-growing alternative to REST. The goal of GraphQL is to reduce payload size and give an API client the ability to query for only for the data it needs. GraphQL uses a flexible syntax based on type definitions, describe the exact fields needed. This avoids the problems common to RESTful...

Enterprise Threat Protector (ETP) Advanced Threat is a new bundle offering of ETP.  In addition to the existing DNS protection layer, ETP Advanced Threat offers additional capabilities of URL and payload inspection using inline malware detection and analysis engines. There are two new key capabilities that are being introduced as part of ETP Advanced Threat. ETP Proxy - Analyzes suspicious...

Stopping Attacks, Not Just Chasing CVEs | For years, the traditional model for protecting a Web application was to find every common vulnerability and exposure (CVE) relevant to your platform’s applications and to enable hundreds of individual rules to protect for specific exploits. Most on-premise web application firewalls (WAFs) still operate like this. With today’s rapid application release cycles, that’s...

Today, we’re proud to announce that the newest release of Akamai Security Center is in general availability. Security Center’s overall goal is to deliver analytics from multiple security products in one space to help Akamai customers optimize their preparation and understanding of complex multi-vector attacks.

UPDATE, October 2018: the CLI for CPS now supports third-party certificate management. For more details, scroll down to the "Update" section at the bottom of this page. The Akamai Certificate Provisioning System (CPS) provides full life cycle management of SSL certificates on the Akamai platform. From requesting new certificates to modifying or renewing existing ones to managing TLS ciphers and...

In a world where web applications are continuously evolving and deploying at a breakneck pace, automating web application security is more important than ever.  That’s why we’re excited to share our Application Security API and corresponding Akamai CLI for Application Security for use in beta to help you automate your security. It’s easy to get started. What follows is a...

The Akamai 2018 Spring Release includes a wide range of product improvements, and in this blog post I’ll give you a brief overview of what’s available, or in some cases, coming soon.

This is one in a series of posts about the Akamai 2018 Spring Release. For an overview of the Spring Release, see our post here.  As the share of mobile app traffic on the Internet increases, bot operators have learned to take advantage of native app APIs, since they are typically more challenging to protect. This is because traditional methods...