Akamai Technologies Whitepapers
Organizations today operate in a Faster Forward world, as they experience a shift towards an increasingly mobile workforce. Following this, an evolving stream of attackers are now targeting mobile devices where they can more easily access a larger number of high-value corporate and government assets. This paper will guide you through finding the right Web security partner that can improve efficiency while reducing risks and improving web experience.
As the world becomes increasingly hyperconnected, the opportunities for innovation are virtually limitless. At the same time, the complexity and risk associated with those opportunities is great. Security threats have the potential for enormous ramifications, but so does deploying a security strategy that compromises the user experience, performance, and the ability to innovate online. This paper will profile the emerging disruptive players, and identifies the essential steps to establishing a secure environment without compromising performance or experience.
In an increasingly connected world, your company’s online presence is often the first - and sometimes the only – way that your customers and clients engage with you. In this whitepaper, we look at how companies can leverage the right technology and service to deliver a secure network infrastructure - from internal communication and record-keeping to product design and financial management.
Akamai Technologies' Security Intelligence Team monitors various news sources, data feeds, and the communications channels of various chaotic actors on the Internet to find issues that affect organisations, such as outages, data breaches, defacements, and Distributed Denial of Service attacks.
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This whitepaper looks at how a high profile government agency website came under attack, their response and how they put in place more proactive measures to recognise and counter to the wide variety of online attacks. •DDoS attack on site reached levels of 1,262 requests per second and 257 Mbps of traffic •Agency needed to meet two requirements: prevent large scale attacks and protect agency online operations beyond the website •With security implementation, agency can now remain operational and credibility was preserved
DDoS attacks against financial firms have continued to grow in size and frequency. This whitepaper looks at how they have been able to defend against large scale volumetric denial of service and data breach attacks in order to: •Maintain 100% availability for web properties including new account sales, online transactions, customer service portals, mobile sites, and product and service information •Maintain or improve fast page loads and responsive performance •Prevent data breaches and protect personal and corporate information •Enable staff to focus on priority projects versus diversion to attack-related efforts
This case study looks at Cathay Pacific’s challenge to increase site performance and how they achieved three definite goals by enlisting a content delivery service provider.
•Company found that website performance dwindled outside of Hong Kong •Wanted to achieve: high performing at all times, boost adoption rates and support peak traffic •Looked for ways to avoid building out infrastructure and instead opted for content service provider
This case study looks at the changes that financial services leader, Rabobank, needed to implement to their IT infrastructure as they expanded into the New Zealand marketplace. •Their current system couldn’t guarantee consistent performance to the New Zealand market •Looked for a solution that would not involve time consuming and cost intensive set-up of local server park •Implementation of solution created acceleration of 4-step transaction from 14.3 seconds to 7.3 seconds
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks can degrade an organisation's online presence and restrict the availability of its services. This white paper addresses the use of DDoS attacks as a mechanism for damaging the financial industry and interfering with financial markets. •A rising number of attacks have been targeting the financial industry, and governments are considering the national security implications •The public image of a financial service firm is intricately associated with its cyber presence •This paper demonstrates a widespread pattern of DDoS attacks and identifies the effects on valuations and financial exchanges
As the world becomes increasingly hyper-connected, the opportunities for innovation and new business models are virtually limitless. However, with so much business-critical information at stake, the need to protect a company's IT assets is more important than ever before. This paper aims to profile the emerging players who comprise today’s emerging threat ecosystem; today's trends and the latest insights into the future.