Why Security Is More Important Than Ever in Today’s Direct-to-Consumer World For media and gaming companies, direct-to-consumer (DTC) business models are skyrocketing in importance. As business models move online, so too do the security risks. Hackers are more tempted than ever to steal highly valuable premium content and sensitive user data. Content theft and data ...

Delivering the broadcast quality video OTT viewers demand is a challenge that requires technical innovation at every stage. In fact, workflow challenges often result in the No. 1 viewer pain point: rebuffering. With the abundance of content options continuing to grow, media companies cannot afford to lose their audiences due to just average or low-quality ...

The global software industry has experienced tremendous growth over the past several years and end user expectations have risen with it. When it comes to software downloads, software providers are expected to deliver consistent, secure, and optimized experiences to every user, across every device. When the download experience isn’t predictable and reliable, user engagement is ...

Are your game downloads fast enough? Download speeds can either drive or drown your gamers. One publisher found that a 30% improvement in download speeds resulted in a 10% increase in day-one activation. We also studied player sentiment, and found that 69% complained about long loading times impacting their enjoyment of the game. Whether you ...

Akamai named a leader among commercial CDN vendors. Download the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Commercial CDN 2019 Vendor Assessment to see why Akamai is named a leader in the market among 8 key CDN vendors. “Akamai’s capacity, performance and reliability assurance are top-notch and a clear differentiator.”-IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Commercial CDN 2019 Vendor Assessment This important ...

As you work to prevent cyberattacks and breaches, it’s easy to lose sight of your ultimate goal as a security professional: to protect customers and empower the business. A Zero Trust network solves for this by enabling deep, continuous data inspection as well as lean operation and oversight — tasks that seem mutually exclusive in ...

How can you meet the challenge to quantify the cost savings and business benefits of Akamai security products? To answer this question, Forrester interviewed or surveyed 35 Akamai customers to develop both a report and a tool. The report uses the data to show how a composite, global, enterprise-sized organization — with $1.5 billion in ...

The 10 Providers That Matter Most and How they Stack Up In our 33-criterion evaluation of web application firewall (WAF) providers, we identified the 10 most significant ones — Akamai Technologies, Alibaba Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Barracuda Networks, Cloudflare, F5 Networks, Imperva, Microsoft, Radware, and Rohde & Schwarz Cybersecurity — and researched, analyzed, and scored ...

Today’s businesses depend on third-party JavaScript to make their sites more dynamic and personalized for users, process payments, track and retarget visitors, link to social media accounts, and more. But what many site operators don’t realize is how vulnerable these scripts are to malicious code injections, putting them at risk for expensive and reputation-damaging client-side ...

Read the latest gaming industry security trends and research Criminals go where the money is. And these days, there is real money to be stolen in the virtual world of gaming. Our new State of the Internet / Security Report: Web Attacks and Gaming Abuse shares results from a 17-month analysis of Internet traffic targeted ...