IBM Research and the Looming Threat of AI-Powered Cyber-Attacks IBM Research has a long history of studying how emerging technologies are affecting the threat landscape to decide what cybersecurity countermeasures might be necessary to combat them; DeepLocker, its AI-powered malware
Akamai’s IoT Edge Connect is Beta Testing MQTT Akamai is beta testing MQTT for IoT Edge Connect, imagining “a hyperconnected world [that] makes every aspect of our lives better”. IoT Edge Connect provides the worldwide messaging network and storage infrastructure
Lance Crosby’s security start-up StackPath is proving to be wildly profitable. Since they launched in July 2016, it has possessed the attributes more commonly associated with a veteran firm: 1M customers, 275 employees and $150M in investor funding at its
Back in early 2013, the COO of VMWare once said the following about Amazon “I find it really hard to believe that we cannot collectively beat a company that sells books”. Well, it wasn’t a happy ending for the COO
Who says money doesn’t grow on trees. According to the illustration below, not only does money grow on trees, so does love. Here are some cute couples that can possibly hit it off in 2015. Now we are randomly picking
Palo Alto Networks (PANW) and FireEye are fierce competitors, especially when it comes to winning the hearts and minds of Wall Street. PANW is on Fire, even more so than FireEye. Twelve months ago, to the exact day, PANW stock
Back at HQ, we get a ton of questions from CDNs and start-ups from all parts of the world. Some questions are similar, and others are unique and interesting. We are going to answer those questions in our new series
CloudFlare to offer Free SSL Certs CloudFlare announced that it’s going to be offering SSL (HTTPS) certificates to all customers, including non-paying customers. This is in response to Google’s announcement that they will be giving preference to website rankings for
US Investigations Services (USIS), which is part of the family of Kroll and HireRight, and collectively owned by Altegrity, Inc., suffered a major security breach by a state sponsored threat actor. USIS is the largest commercial organization providing background checks
Akamai has been busy lately tackling multiple enterprise initiatives in the areas of security and media distribution. Akamai’s media segment accounts for more than 40% of its overall revenue. They are very active in trying to grow the media segment
Today, the likelihood of IBM acquiring Akamai has increased from 10% to 30%, in my opinion. IBM has been an incredibly busy-bee the last two months, thanks to Bezos & Company. In February 2013, IBM lost a $600M CIA Contract
I didn’t see this one coming, but is IBM about to make a play for Brightcove? First, let’s back up to early January. Brightcove stock is hovering around $14 per share, from November 2013 to January 6, 2014. Then, on
