Akamai Technologies, Wednesday, July 1st, 2026
AI Inference Is Swallowing the Cloud
Akamai CTO Robert Blumofe argues hypercentralized clouds cannot sustain AI inference and must decentralize to the edge.
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Akamai Technologies, Thursday, June 25th, 2026
Linode Interfaces and Default Firewall Now Generally Available
Akamai Cloud makes Linode Interfaces and Default Firewall generally available for instance-level networking.
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Akamai Technologies, Thursday, June 25th, 2026
Your AI Cost Model Stops at the Token Price. The Bill Doesn't.
Akamai argues nearly 80% of production AI spend sits in inference, beyond visible token pricing.
more → Akamai Technologies, Thursday, June 25th, 2026
The New MCP Specification: What Security Teams Must Prepare For
Akamai threat-models the new stateless MCP spec, finding it removes old risks but opens fresh attack surfaces.
more → Security Boulevard, Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026
Akamai Report Details MCP Security Weaknesses
Akamai finds the new MCP specification removes old risks but opens fresh attack surfaces for developers.
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IoT News, Friday, May 15th, 2026
Continuum of Compute: Akamai on What Enterprise AI Needs at the Edge
Akamai's Field CTO discusses how enterprises must architect distributed AI inference across edge locations based on workload demands rather than cloud-vs-edge preferences.
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Akamai, Tuesday, May 5th, 2026
Protecting APIs at Scale: Akamai Introduces Security Posture Center and Code-to-Runtime Mapping
New capabilities transform fragmented API findings into measurable security posture and connect runtime activity to code ownership to accelerate remediation
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Akamai Technologies, Monday, April 6th, 2026
Publishing Industry Under Attack: Global AI Bot Activity Surges By 300%, Akamai Report Finds
The sector ranks second globally in AI bot activity, with most attacks targeting publishing organizations
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Akamai Technologies, Wednesday, April 1st, 2026
How Managed Databases Are Transforming Today's IT Landscape
In the early days of building a product, running your own database can feel like the obvious choice. Spin up a server, install PostgreSQL or MySQL, tweak a few settings, and you're off and running. As traffic grows, however, teams often discover that 'just running a database' quietly turns into a full-time job.
more → Akamai Technologies, Thursday, March 5th, 2026
How Harmonic Proved High-Performance AI Inference On Akamai GPUs
Running AI inference at scale is no longer just about model size. Today's questions include: How efficiently can you run that model, how fast can you process real-world data, and how much infrastructure do you need to do it?
more → Akamai Technologies, Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026
Why GPU Card Counts Matter For Real AI Workloads
When organizations move artificial intelligence (AI) from experiment to production, they discover something critical: Not every workload needs the biggest GPU you can buy.
more → Akamai Technologies, Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026
Choose The Right Gpu On Akamai Cloud For Your AI Workload
AI inference, natural language processing, computer vision, video analytics, rendering, and scientific visualization all rely on GPUs. The challenge is that not all GPU workloads look the same. Some require large memory for complex models. Some are dominated by real-time video processing. Others are driven by graphics, rendering, 8K streaming, transcoding, or certified design workflows.
more → Akamai Technologies, Monday, February 23rd, 2026
When Uptime Is Non-Negotiable: Rethinking Zero Trust For OT Environments
For years, critical infrastructure operators have been forced to choose between uptime and robust cybersecurity protection. Traditional controls, such as firewalls, either slow systems down or cannot be deployed at all in fragile OT environments.
more → Akamai Technologies, Friday, February 20th, 2026
Inside The Fix: Analysis Of In-The-Wild Exploit Of CVE-2026-21513
Microsoft's February 2026 Patch Tuesday addressed 59 vulnerabilities, including six actively exploited zero-days. CVE-2026-21513 stands out because of its active exploitation, high impact, and ability to bypass browser security boundaries and trigger arbitrary file execution.
more → Akamai Technologies, Thursday, February 19th, 2026
Adapt, Protect, And Extend: How Partners Can Help Orgs Unlock ROI From AI
This blog post explores the "adapt, protect, and extend" maturity curve that was designed to help partners lead high-value consultative conversations. By understanding the rise of the agentic web and the evolution of user intent, partners can help customers navigate new risks while also capturing significant ROI.
more → Akamai Technologies, Thursday, February 19th, 2026
Why Cloud Reliability Depends On Imperfect Software
Over the last few years, the world has witnessed a number of notable cloud and IT service outages. Although the public has come to expect occasional technology disruptions, these outages were different in their breadth and depth of impact. They led to canceled flights, disrupted workplace productivity, malfunctioning connected devices in the home, and more.
more → Akamai Technologies, Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
Zero Trust Switching: Why Firewalls Alone Can't Secure AI Workloads
In the first post of this series, we challenged the long-standing belief that security must be sacrificed at the cost of performance. In the second post, we confronted the reality that most modern data center traffic flows east-west, never crossing the perimeter. This final post merges these ideas and reframes the conversation entirely.
more → Akamai Technologies, Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
From Clawdbot To Openclaw: Practical Lessons In Building Secure Agents
From Clawdbot to Moltbot to its current form OpenClaw, this technology has compressed years of security lessons into weeks. This agent doesn't just 'talk'; it has hands. It can execute shell commands, manage files, and interact directly with websites and APIs that you as a user might have access to - moving beyond passive access into active execution.
more → Akamai-Technologies, Thursday, February 12th, 2026
Understand The Shift Toward AI-Driven Interactions: A Guide To MCP
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is rapidly emerging as the answer to a pressing question facing today's leaders: How do I optimize my business for AI? Think of MCP as a Swiss Army Knife for AI: one interface, many possibilities, built from the tools your business chooses for AI to use.
more → Akamai-Technologies, Wednesday, February 11th, 2026
Observing The Anatomy Of Peak Traffic
Digital peak traffic events - from live events, like sports streaming, to ecommerce flash sales and holiday surges - put extreme, real-time pressure on every layer of infrastructure because downtime and delays are so costly.
more → Akamai-Technologies, Tuesday, February 10th, 2026
Industrialized Ransomware: Confronting The New Reality
On Easter Weekend 2025, something was amiss at one retailer's stores across the United Kingdom. Contactless payments failed. Click-and-collect orders vanished. Shelves emptied.
more → Akamai-Technologies, Monday, February 9th, 2026
Your OpenClaw Agent Doesn't Sleep. Your Laptop Does. Move It To The Cloud.
OpenClaw (formerly called Moltbot and/or Clawdbot) is blowing up right now. People are waking up to agents that coded overnight, scheduled their own tasks, and - in at least one viral case - called someone on the phone using a number that it set up by itself.
more → Akamai Technologies, Tuesday, January 20th, 2026
Your New Marketing Assistant: The AI Expert In Akamai Campaign Builder
If you've used Akamai Campaign Builder before, then you already know it's designed to make your life easier. From pre-built campaigns and co-branded collateral to microsite templates and social-ready content, it's your one-stop shop for partner marketing.
more → Akamai Technologies, Tuesday, January 20th, 2026
Command Injection In Vivotek Legacy Firmware: What You Need To Know
The Akamai Security Intelligence and Response Team (SIRT) conducted a comprehensive analysis of Vivotek legacy firmware to address the rising threat of botnet-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks facilitated by legacy Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Our goal was to identify and mitigate additional and previously unknown vulnerabilities that could be exploited to gain remote command injection access.
more → Akamai Technologies, Friday, January 16th, 2026
Dangling DNA: The Most Overlooked Attack Surface In The AI Era
Today's organizations are focused on securing large language models (LLMs), mitigating prompt injection, and governing agentic browser behavior. But one of the most consequential artificial intelligence (AI)-era attack vectors is not directly related to AI models - it sits quietly inside your Domain Name System (DNS).
more → Akamai Technologies, Monday, December 15th, 2025
How Akamai Is Powering Trust In Tomorrow's AI-Driven Ecosystem
The digital economy is transforming before our eyes. What began as an era of human-to-business interactions through web browsers is rapidly evolving into one defined by AI assistants and agents.
more → Akamai Technologies, December 11,2025
The Year in Review 2025: AI, APIs, and a Whole Lot of Audacity
Remember that wild heist at the Louvre Museum in Paris in October 2025? Thieves literally used a cherry picker to smash through a window and steal French crown jewels. It's honestly the perfect metaphor for what has happened in cybersecurity this year: Threat actors will use whatever tools they can get their hands on to grab your digital crown jewels.
more → Akamai, Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025
Akamai Cloud CTO: Organizations Are Throwing This Out The Door With AI
Organisation appear to be throwing good project management practices out the window in their approach to artificial intelligence (AI) and forgetting any discipline they may have developed.
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Akamai Technologies, Tuesday, November 25th, 2025
Beyond NSX: A Strategic Alternative for VMware Customers
Broadcom's acquisition of VMware has become a major inflection point for IT leaders everywhere. What was once a predictable (albeit complex) part of the infrastructure stack is now a source of significant uncertainty, and CISOs and infrastructure managers are grappling with forced product bundling, staggering price hikes, and a growing sense of being trapped.
more → Akamai Technologies, Wednesday, November 12th, 2025
Future-Proofing Retail Security: Preparing for Tomorrow's Cyberthreats
In the first two parts of this series, we explored the critical needs to assume breach for internal systems and extend security thinking across supply chain networks. But as retailers implement these foundational strategies, a new reality is emerging: The threat landscape itself is evolving at a pace that outstrips traditional defense mechanisms and security measures.
more → Akamai Technologies, Friday, November 7th, 2025
How To Protect Personal Data In Today's API Economy
Although this October has come to a close, the spirit of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) lives on.
more → Akamai Technologies, Thursday, November 6th, 2025
AI Explainer: What Is Model Context Protocol?
There is a good chance you might have heard the term Model Context Protocol, or MCP, in the context of AI systems recently. But we're finding that many developers haven't had the time to learn about what it does or how it fits into agentic workflows. This blog post provides an introduction into what MCP is and how it can be useful.
more → Akamai Technologies, Thursday, October 16th, 2025
The Differences Between API Gateway And Waap - And Why You Need Both
At Akamai, we're continuously evolving to address the dynamic web application and API protection (WAAP) challenges prevalent in today's digital landscape.
more → Akamai Technologies, Thursday, October 16th, 2025
How to Get Started with NVIDIA cuOpt
In 2024, NVIDIA announced its graphics processing unit (GPU)-accelerated prima-dual linear programming (PDLP) implementation: cuOpt.
more → Akamai Technologies, Thursday, October 16th, 2025
How To Automate Your Security Posture For The 47-Day Certificate Era
The era of 47-day certificates is coming. And with it comes a pivotal opportunity to strengthen your security posture.
more → Akamai Technologies, Wednesday, October 15th, 2025
How to Prevent Command Injection and SQL Injection Attacks over MCP
Agentic AI systems rely on fast and reliable communication channels to more natively coordinate and execute tasks among different agents, apps, and services. Efficient communication with external tools is a core tenet of any AI technology, which is what led to the now standard Model Context Protocol (MCP).
more → Akamai Technologies, Thursday, October 9th, 2025
Linode Kubernetes Engine Optimization: Save On Compute, Storage, And Networking
Kubernetes provides teams with flexibility and power, but without guardrails and visibility into costs, which can result in inefficiencies and rising costs.
more → Akamai Technologies, Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
A Guide To International Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards
The adoption of post-quantum cryptography (PQC) has become a critical mandate for organizations of all sizes.
more → Akamai Technologies, Tuesday, October 7th, 2025
AI Inference Hardware Decisions: When to Choose CPUs vs. GPUs
AI infrastructure is not about chasing the latest hardware trend - it's about choosing the right tool for the job.
more → Akamai Technologies, October 1,2025
DNS Hijacking 101: How It Happens and What You Can Do to Prevent It
In this blog post, we'll explain what DNS hijacking is, what types and techniques cybercriminals use, and how to protect DNS servers from this attack. This should help you understand the threat of DNS hijacking and determine which cybersecurity measures you need to prevent your DNS servers from being compromised.
more → Akamai Technologies, September 30,2025
How To Secure Enterprise Networks By Identifying Malicious IP Addresses
Securing enterprise network traffic is crucial in the fight against threat actors who are trying to harm organizations and cause irreparable damage. The identification of new and potentially malicious destination IPs plays a key role in this defense - you can't protect what you don't know needs to be protected.
more → Akamai Technologies, September 30,2025
Conversations and the Media Climate Accord at IBC2025
Since 2009, we've been on a journey at Akamai to not only advance our own sustainability goals but also to help bring our customers along with us. One of the best lessons I've learned in this work is the power of listening.
more → Akamai Technologies, September 30,2025
The State Of Enterprise AI: Why Edge Native Is The Fastest Path To ROI
Akamai recently commissioned a study by Forrester, The State of Enterprise AI: Gaining Experience and Managing Risk, to better understand how companies are adopting artificial intelligence (AI) and what they are prioritizing.
more → Akamai Technologies, September 30,2025
The Power Of Data Observability: Your Edge In A Fast-Changing World
In 2012, IBM estimated that 90% of the world's data had been created in the previous two years. Since then, data has become the fastest growing and most important asset for any organization. Every day, businesses are inundated with more data, higher consumer expectations, and the increasing pressure to make decisions at speed.
more → Akamai Technologies, September 30,2025
Isolate Your Database: VPC For Managed Databases Is Available Now
Since we initially launched Akamai Managed Databases in 2024, some of our largest customers have used these managed databases to accelerate application development while reducing operational overhead.
more → Akamai Technologies, September 29,2025
What 400 Executives Reveal About The Future Of AI Adoption
Against the backdrop of global artificial intelligence (AI) spending that is projected to reach US$644 billion in 2025 - which would be a 76.4% increase from 2024 according to Gartner - it's clear that organizations view AI as existentially necessary. But what specifically are enterprises thinking about when they invest in AI?
more → Akamai Technologies, September 15,2025
Smarter Security: Akamai And Seraphic Team Up To Simplify SSE With Secure Enterprise Browsing
Akamai and Seraphic offer a streamlined, cost-effective solution that combines enterprise browser technology with ZTNA
more → Akamai Technologies, Friday, September 12th, 2025
Leveling Up Live Streaming: Akamai And Harmonic Bring Video Workflows To The Cloud
The next generation of Akamai Media Services Live is powered by Harmonic
more → Akamai Technologies, Wednesday, August 27th, 2025
Protect Critical Infrastructure: Cybersecurity Strategies for Governments
It only takes one click, one misconfigured port, or one forgotten patch - and, suddenly, 911 dispatch is offline, water treatment operations grind to a halt, or a regional airport is paralyzed. For state and local governments, protecting critical infrastructure is no longer just an IT issue, it's a matter of public safety, economic stability, and trust.
more → Akamai Technologies, Monday, August 25th, 2025
These 4 Threats to AI Applications Require New Cybersecurity Strategies
Large language models (LLMs) and AI applications are revolutionizing how enterprises operate and innovate - from AI-powered chatbots in customer service to agentic AI systems that make autonomous decisions. But with that transformation comes a new set of vulnerabilities and a significantly expanded attack surface that traditional cybersecurity solutions alone aren't designed to handle.
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