OWASP publishes a list of the 10 most common vulnerabilities in web applications. This white paper details how Akamai can help mitigate these threat vectors. Subscribe to the Cybersecurity Insider Newsletter Strengthen your organization's IT security defenses by keeping abreast of the latest cybersecurity news, solutions, and best practices. Delivered every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday ...
A new Gartner® report, How to Respond to the 2022 Cyberthreat Landscape, focuses on the new threats organizations will face as they prepare for the future of work and accelerate digital transformations. Gartner’s advice will help security and risk management leaders continually refine their strategy to combat top threats, high-momentum attacks, and emerging threats. It ...
Research shows that web applications and API attacks continued to explode in the first half of 2022. Does your organization have the best defense today? Akamai recommends deploying a holistic web application and API protection (WAAP) solution. The right WAAP can strengthen your information security strategy and provide insight into emerging risks to target security ...
Experts warn that API attacks will soon become the most common type of web application attack. As a result, organizations and their security vendors need to align across people, processes, and technologies to institute the right protections. The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) API Security Top 10 is a good place to start. Download ...
An account takeover (ATO), in which criminals impersonate legitimate account owners to take control of an account, are on the rise in Asia and across the world. Fraudsters are swindling money and digital assets from consumers across industries, with the most hard-hit targets in financial services, retail, gaming, hotel and travel. It is critical for ...
Alternative cloud providers offer enterprises a legitimate alternative to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), with comparable, and often better, performance at a more attractive price. But there’s a potential challenge that cannot go unmentioned: Once you decide that an alternative cloud provider is the right choice, how do you approach migration? As a ...
Cloud Technologies have moved from single workload projects to the mainstream. Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is popular. The market for these services grew by nearly 40% in 2019. With IaaS, the cloud provider operates the underlying IT infrastructure — servers and virtual machines, storage, networking, and operating systems — using an ondemand and a pay-as-you-go model. ...
The suitability of the cloud for most workloads is no longer in question. On the contrary, most organizations use multiple cloud providers to reduce risk, maximize agility, and control costs. Realizing the full benefit of a multicloud approach takes planning, however. Join Pavel Despot, Senior Product Marketing Manager, at Akamai and Mike Maney, Corporate Communications ...
With their growing complexity, the hyperscale platforms are not necessarily fit for the entirety of cloud use cases. A group of alternative cloud infrastructure providers is addressing these other requirements with a set of services that emphasizes simplicity, cost-effectiveness and ease of use. Read more to learn: Public Cloud Market Conditions, Leaders and Alternatives Characteristics ...
DDoS, one of the oldest types of cyberthreats, continues to pose major security risks for virtually every type of enterprise — small and large alike. And while some organizations might believe they’re a low-risk target, the growing reliance on internet connectivity to power business-critical applications leaves everyone exposed to downtime and diminished performance if infrastructure ...