“These new offerings for Akamai Guardicore Segmentation customers will extend protection to devices that have historically been difficult to secure."

Cloud services provider Akamai Technologies is building a Scrubbing Centre and Cloud Data Centre in Auckland to defend against DDoS attacks.

DDoS can serve as a cover for other, potentially more damaging cyber activities such as infiltration and exfiltration of data and malware installation. 

The new services offer a fundamentally different approach to the cloud by integrating core and distributed computing sites with a massively scaled edge network.

Akamai Technologies has launched Akamai Connected Cloud, a massively distributed edge and cloud platform for computing, security and content delivery.

"Security teams are also under immense pressure to defend against a booming arsenal of increasingly sophisticated attacks."

"We continually monitor and improve our capabilities to defend customers from new threats, while enabling customers to protect evolving attack surfaces."

The State of the Internet report shows gaming companies and gamer accounts are at risk, following a surge in web application attacks post pandemic.

Web application attacks in the gaming sector have grown by 167% from Q1 2021 to Q1 2022, according to new research from Akamai.

Akamai Technologies has revealed that nearly 30% of ransomware attacks worldwide launched by Conti targeted the manufacturing industry.

New research from Akamai has found that a new threat actor is parasitising benign WordPress sites to execute an extensive PayPal phishing scam.

Akamai Technologies has released three new research reports focusing on ransomware, web applications and APIs, and DNS traffic.

Akamai Technologies and Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand have entered a strategic relationship to assist organisations in the region.

According to a new observation by Akamai, Australia has experienced a massive spike in WAF Multi-Vector and DDoS attacks.

Akamai has announced a series of new products and updates to existing products across its security and compute product lines, including its entry into the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market.

Akamai has announced that Forrester has named it a Leader in its 2022 Bot Management Wave report, acknowledging the company’s standout vision.

Attackers increase the volume of attacks, including scraping data, draining customer accounts, damaging site functionality and holding encrypted data ransom.

Cloud infrastructure provider Akamai announced it has secured an agreement to acquire Infrastructure as a Service platform, Linode.

"This builds on Akamai's proven security technologies, introducing new levels of sophisticated, automated intelligence to keep our customers a step ahead of the cyber criminals.”

"From broken authentication and injection flaws, to simple misconfigurations, there are numerous API security concerns for anyone building an internet-connected application."

"By adding Guardicore's leading micro-segmentation products to Akamai's comprehensive portfolio of zero trust solutions, we believe Akamai will be able to provide the most effective way to combat ransomware on the market today.”

"We are observing a remarkable persistence in video game industry defenses being tested on a daily - and often hourly - basis."

"We're addressing this critical need with a highly sophisticated digital fingerprint approach that strengthens protection without placing additional burdens on the end user.

“As opposed to other 'all in one' solutions that can be vulnerable to platform outages, our distinct, purpose-built DDoS solutions are architected to ensure multiple levels of resilience."