Innovative Ways Customers Compute on the Edge
Moving everything closer to the edge is the key to delivering better, faster experiences to people through billions of devices around the world.
Month: April 2021
From George to Breonna to Eric: What happens to police officers who kill Black people
String of law enforcement officers acquitted or not faced charges in high-profile killings
Japan sends Lifesaving Equipment Systems as Official Development Assistance for the Philippine Army
Japan is sending its goodwill to the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), which is unprecedented considering the Japanese government only lifting the ban on transfer of defense equipment to foreign countries lately.The Japanese government has s…
Akamai Recognized as 2021 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Web Application Firewalls
Akamai has been named a Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Web Application Firewalls (for the second time).
Building an A/B Test with EdgeWorkers and EdgeKV
When paired with our new EdgeKV distributed key-value database, the Akamai EdgeWorkers serverless platform gives you the ability to do powerful things at the CDN level.
Adapting Security to Work Anywhere
“Working from home 2021” was the title of my talk at The Cyber Security Summit in January, and the strikethrough is important.
New Book! The Best of TaoSecurity Blog, Volume 4
I’ve completed the TaoSecurity Blog book series.The new book is The Best of TaoSecurity Blog, Volume 4: Beyond the Blog with Articles, Testimony, and Scholarship. It’s available now for Kindle, and I’m working on the print edition. …
Taking Action This Earth Month
There’s a fascinating human phenomenon often studied in the behavioral science field called the intention-action gap.
Gambling, Streaming Traffic Up During Men’s College Basketball Tourney
Gambling industry-related web traffic delivered by Akamai jumped 31% over the category average for all of Q4 2020 on March 31st.
Caught on Camera: Rethinking IoT Security
We all know that we’re on camera pretty much constantly — most coffee shops, convenience stores, and even offices employ security cameras for protection. But what happens when those devices built to keep us safe become unsafe?