We’re excited to be celebrating our 3 Year Anniversary. It’s hard to believe that it’s been three long years. We published our very first post on December 3, 2013 titled “Akamai Expands Security Portfolio”. In three years time, we’ve published
Akamai’s reported Q3 earnings and “Media Delivery Solutions” revenue is down 14%, coming in at $188M. “Cloud Security Solutions” revenue is up 46% coming it at $95M. First Takeaway: today the video streaming/media delivery business is a mere afterthought in
Earlier this week, Akamai released threat research relating to the recent string of DDoS attacks that make use of IoT devices by exploiting security weaknesses in their factory settings. In the report, Akamai provided information about how IoT devices are
The 1Tbps DDoS attack is a total game changer for the edge security business model. For starters, we can throw away the idea of small companies becoming a DDoS mitigation service provider. Unfortunately, the DDoS mitigation business is going the
After the two massive DDoS attacks last week, it’s time to re-think the DDoS Mitigation architecture strategy. Brian Krebs got hit with a 620Gbps DDoS attack and OVH with a 799Gbps attack. The interesting part – the 799Gbps attack was
Cloudflare is pushing for better quality internet encryption and they have recently announced the rollout of three new encryption features: TLS 1.3, Automatic HTTPS Rewrites, and Opportunistic Encryption. Cloudflare Releases New Encryption Features
AWS released an updated version of its AWS Best Practices for DDoS Resiliency Whitepaper, a guide for developers building new apps or looking to optimize their current architecture for DDoS resiliency. In addition, the whitepaper goes into detail to advise
Instart Logic, the Palo Alto-based provider of application delivery solutions, has announced the debut of its endpoint-aware application delivery solution, which is currently available in the Oracle Cloud Marketplace for the convenience of Oracle customers. Its platform combines machine learning,
Zenedge has reached a major milestone today in several different areas. First, they raised $6.2M in Series C, bringing their total raised to $13.7M. And the most impressive part about this round is that one of their customers invested in them,
AWS Is Ramping Up Its DDoS Capabilities AWS is ramping up its DDoS capabilities, in which it details “best practices for DDoS resilience” in a white paper, aimed at enterprises with public-facing endpoints. A crucial factor in DDoS mitigation is
Over the last year, there has been much talk about a new trend taking shape in CDN industry called “DIY CDN”. Some companies, especially those delivering a high volume of content have taken it upon themselves to build DIY CDNs.
Akamai and CloudFlare are giants in the DDoS Mitigation and WAF space. A few years back, Akamai was all about selling services to the large enterprise only and CloudFlare to the SME/SMB. Times have changed and Akamai is going downstream
PerimeterX, a security based startup has just come out of stealth mode. They have developed a security service called the PerimeterX Bot Defender that protects online companies from automated attacks, including bot attacks, DDoS attacks, zero-days threats, brute force, price
When it comes to services and features, some are commodities, such as video streaming, while others have the potential to be huge market disruptors. Video streaming is a fiercely competitive market that’s become a penny business, much like the supermarket
In October of 2015, Amazon introduced two new security features: AWS WAF and Amazon Inspector. Amazon Inspector is a web application scanner that scans for vulnerabilities within the AWS environment. From a competitive standpoint, the Inspector tool is one of
