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Users, devices, applications, and data are now located outside of the enterprise. According to Gartner’s The Future of Network Security Is in the Cloud , “Security and risk management leaders need...

Internet traffic surged in 2020 and criminals took advantage, using their time at home to change the threat landscape forever. There were huge jumps in credential stuffing, web application, DDoS, phis...

For the fourth year in a row, Gartner has named Akamai a Leader in the 2020 Magic Quadrant Leader for web application firewalls (WAFs). This important report cites several strengths that we believe ar...

How can you meet the challenge to quantify the cost savings and business benefits of Akamai security products? To answer this question, Akamai commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a study in w...

DDoS attackers launch hundreds of DDoS attacks every day. And when a DDoS attack strikes an organization, panic is common. No one knows why systems and applications are failing, whom to call or what q...

Akamai is proud to be a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust eXtended Ecosystem Platform Providers, Q3 2020. This third-party report evaluated 15 Zero Trust providers on 19 criteria. Akamai rec...

2020 began with Akamai security researchers gaining greater visibility into the credential stuffing landscape just as the COVID-19 lockdowns began. Some attack trends continued. Many spiked exponentia...

Web application firewall (WAF) services inspect HTTP traffic before it reaches your applications, to defend against rapidly emerging security threats. Gartner evaluates 12 vendors in the 2019 Gartner ...

With web apps and APIs becoming more complex and threats becoming more sophisticated, enterprises are demanding more from web application firewalls (WAFs). Forrester Research evaluated the 10 most sig...

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...