As mentioned in the earlier post, the video streaming feature set for the Content Delivery Network is a nice to have feature, but it is also a requirement for the CDN. Being able to ingest video, store it, transcode it
Is the industry witnessing a new CDN era in which specialization is becoming the norm? It seems like the era of CDN specialization is upon us. We have the Big Three CDNs (Akamai, EdgeCast & Limelight), and the CDN specialist.
A few weeks ago, Incapsula reported that a sophisticated threat actor high jacked a section of a Top 50 Alexa Ranked website, installing malware, via javascript, that infected users who visited infected web pages to watch video. The only hint
Akamai does the entire technology industry a huge favor by providing the public with detailed quarterly DDoS reports. Incapsula does the same, and takes it a step further by posting data on specific DDoS attacks, describing the attack types and
A couple of weeks back, Andy Ellis, Chief Security Officer of Akamai, published a detailed blog post on the heartbleed incident, and so did EdgeCast, Limelight, and most other CDNs. Also, Andy responded to my email when I requested an
Bizety is rolling out the 4th update to the CDN Ecosystem diagram that plots the position of each CDN, or CDN like company in the content delivery network ecosystem. This update includes all 17 US based CDNs, including the Big
The heartbleed bug has impacted the entire CDN industry, including the heavy weights: Akamai, EdgeCast, Limelight, Fastly, CloudFlare and Incapsula. More than anything else, reissuing SSL certificates to all SSL customers is more of a headache than anything else. The
Today, a once in a lifetime opportunity has presented itself to Akamai. It might disappear in a few weeks. Akamai has $1B of cash in the bank, and a stated revenue milestone of $5B by 2020. That’s a significant increase
Wall Street is punishing the information security sector right now. Investors are heading for the exits, running away from FireEye and Imperva. Imperva is down 43% today on the news that they will miss quarterly revenues by $4.5M, when they
The Content Delivery Network adds a critical security layer to any Defense-in-Depth strategy. The CDN is just as important as the firewall, or intrusion detection system, when it comes to mitigating certain types of attacks. With the corporate computer network
This is part two of the Content Delivery Network Ecosystem diagram. The diagram below includes 16 of 17 USA based CDNs. The objective of the diagram is to visually represent each CDN in the ecosystem. In my original post, I
Prince (CEO) of CloudFlare is a marked man. According to an article dated in June 2012, hackers managed to access his personal email address. They obtained it through social engineering techniques used against his AT&T mobile device, and Google password
Big thanks to Akamai and Incapsula for providing the community with a DDoS trends report detailing the specific types of DDoS attacks. The key takeaway is the attacks are getting more sophisticated where attackers launch multi vector attacks to mask
Palo Alto Networks (PAN), the founder and leader of the next generation firewall appliance is growing up fast. It graduated from the hardware appliance market a while back when they introduced the Wildfire, a cloud based service for mitigating APT,
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) are at the forefront of the latest cyber attacks. No organization is immune. APT incorporate the elements of electronic military warfare, where cyber criminals create detailed “Attack-in-Offense” plans that counter the best Defense-in-Depth strategies that corporations
