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Oct 30, 2024 | 
akamai.com | Emily Lyons |Christine Ross |Danielle Walter
These measures will help strengthen your security posture during the election period. As the United States and the world count down to the upcoming U.S. presidential election on November 5, 2024, we want to highlight key strategies to ensure resilience during this critical event, especially for the financial services sector. This blog post addresses the elevated risks to service availability during the week of November 4, 2024, and describes the ways you can strengthen your attack readiness.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
akamai.com | Christine Ross |Danielle Walter
Account abuse leads to significant financial loss, erosion in customer trust, and reputational damage for businesses. In today’s digital landscape, securing online accounts is essential; studies indicate that account takeover fraud caused nearly US$13 billion in losses in 2023. Fraudsters are becoming increasingly sophisticated, targeting multiple points of the account lifecycle — from account creation to post-login activities like password resets and payments — to commit malicious activities.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
akamai.com | Danielle Walter |Michael Kleef
Amid the dynamic landscape of financial services, the adoption of application programming interfaces (APIs) has become essential for innovation, efficiency, and customer centricity. APIs enable the seamless integration of disparate systems, allowing financial institutions to deliver tailored services, streamline operations, and enhance customer experiences.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
akamai.com | Cheryl Chiodi |Danielle Walter
The polyfill.io supply chain attack underscores the critical vulnerabilities inherent in modern web application development.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
akamai.com | Danielle Walter |Steve Winterfeld
On June 24, we closed our acquisition of Noname Security, and we are excited to share our plans for advancing the protection of APIs. On June 24, we closed our acquisition of Noname Security, and we are excited to share our plans for advancing the protection of APIs. Noname Security is one of the top API security vendors in the market, and this acquisition will accelerate our ability to meet growing customer demand and market requirements.
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May 21, 2024 | 
akamai.com | Steve Winterfeld |Jim Gilbert |Carley D. Thornell |Danielle Walter
Unreliable analytics. Site analytics can help you make better marketing decisions (like changing the customer journey on the basis of page traffic) and business decisions (like determining which inventory to purchase on the basis of product page hits). If bot traffic isn’t removed, those decisions can be skewed and lead to expensive missteps. Loss of revenue from competitive undercutting.
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May 20, 2024 | 
akamai.com | Carley D. Thornell |Danielle Walter |Jacob Abrams
Unfortunately, the number of DNS attacks is on the rise across industries and around the world. Fortify your DNS to prevent team fatigue Domain name system (DNS) is essential to infrastructure security and enables all digital services for an organization. Unfortunately, the number of DNS attacks is on the rise across industries and around the world.
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May 17, 2024 | 
akamai.com | Danielle Walter |Jacob Abrams |Carley D. Thornell |Cheryl Chiodi
Because threat actors quickly shift their targets, tactics, and motivations, staying on top of risks as you innovate requires a layered defense. As Akamai celebrates 10 years of State of the Internet (SOTI) reports, we’re sharing insights from key industries that we serve, including healthcare & life sciences. This is the second blog post in a SOTI series that will culminate in a comprehensive report later this year. You can read the first post in the series here.
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May 17, 2024 | akamai.com | Danielle Walter |Jacob Abrams |Carley D. Thornell |Cheryl Chiodi
Because threat actors quickly shift their targets, tactics, and motivations, staying on top of risks as you innovate requires a layered defense. As Akamai celebrates 10 years of State of the Internet (SOTI) reports, we’re sharing insights from key industries that we serve, including healthcare & life sciences. This is the second blog post in a SOTI series that will culminate in a comprehensive report later this year. You can read the first post in the series here.
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Jun 30, 2023 | 
akamai.com | Danielle Walter
According to Mimecast’s State of Brand Protection Report, 40% of consumers don’t hesitate to click on links in emails from their favorite brands. That makes your customers — and you — frighteningly susceptible to brand impersonation. Those customers who purchase a fake item — that they think comes from you — may not come back. Research has found that, after buying a fake good online, 52% of U.S. consumers lost trust in the impersonated brand.
