Isn’t it amazing how seemingly simple decisions can have far-reaching effects? When the Inverse team in Montreal took over PacketFence in 2008, it was an open source (OS) solution.

Author: Mark Porter, Director, Supply Chain & International Collaboration, Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance (REBA)

Mark Porter moved to REBA from Rocky Mountain Institute’s Business Renewables Center (BRC) initiative in March 2019. Mark continues to s…

Akamai is committed to collaboration that inspires worldwide change. We know it’s not enough to be environmentally conscious solely in our own business. To make a true impact on climate change, we need to use our unique position as a global corporation…

This is Part 3 of a 3-part blog series highlighting some of the distinguishing aspects of Akamai’s authoritative DNS services, Edge DNS and Global Traffic Management. Part 1 focused on Akamai’s DNS platform and what sets it apart. Part 2…

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues are quickly emerging as a key concern for investors. To use a musical analogy, the bow is just resting on the first string, with more notes sure to follow. At Akamai, our ESG instrument is well tuned a…

A few years ago, I wrote a blog post trying to explain, with humor, why choosing application security as a career path is destiny derived by my parents calling me “Or”, and why a personal name that is a conditional word can sometimes be challenging in …

By now, we hope you’ve read Monday’s and Tuesday’s blog posts announcing the release of our annual sustainability report, our sustainability program, and the technical innovation behind it.

Never before has the risk of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack been higher. In 2020, we saw record-breaking attacks, a DDoS extortion campaign impacting thousands of organizations globally, more emergency customer turnups, and more Akamai c…

I recently worked with a client whose large e-commerce site was hosted with a popular cloud-based commerce solution. Its business was growing rapidly into new geographic markets, and it was not satisfied with the embedded content delivery network (eCDN…

When we write the SOTI and talk about attacks against gamers, we spend a good deal of time focusing on network-level events, such as DDoS and credential stuffing.