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A Productive Path to NFV
Provider networks continue to experience growth in traffic, which raises costs, without corresponding growth in revenues. Accommodating this growth and increasing complexity while managing costs is forcing CSPs to assess how they build and maintain their networks. Everyone agrees everything ultimately resolves to software and fortunately there's been considerable innovation that will support provider business imperatives.
Keeping up with DNSSEC
DNS was first conceived in 1983, back when one of the most memorable movie quotes of all time was popularized: "Go ahead, make my day" (Clint Eastwood in "Sudden Impact"). The internet as we know it today did not yet exist; however, ARPANET, its predecessor network, was the exclusive domain of a small group of academics and researchers, so no one gave much thought to security. A lot has changed.
Akamai's DNS Contribution to Internet Resiliency
Background Akamai Technologies recently contributed its "Serve Stale" DNS algorithm to Version 9 of the Internet Systems Consortium's (ISC) Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) open source Domain Name System (DNS) project. As the Internet's most widely used DNS implementation, BIND operates ubiquitously throughout the Internet. The ongoing availability of answers from BIND servers is a critical element for the ongoing availability of the Internet for many users.
Infographic: How Botnets Work
With IoT on the rise, consumers are rightfully afraid of privacy invasions. But, infected devices can serve far more sinister purposes. Herewith, we breakdown the ways a botnet works.
Take a Bite out of Cybercrime by Analyzing New Core ...
We just conducted our monthly Cyber Insider discussion, this time focusing on what deep analysis of new core domains reveals about new threats and zero-day malware. As a company that processes 1.7 trillion DNS queries a day and analyzes 100 billion queries a day from our global service provider customers, we are in a unique position to gain insights.
What makes a good "DNS Blacklist"? - Part 2
In "What makes a good 'DNS Blacklist'? - Part 1", we explored the background and factors that have gone into Akamai's thinking behind New security products like Enterprise Threat Protect (ETP). This article continues with a list of factors and questions to ask any DNS Threat Feed providers, including Akamai. What should enterprises look for in the DNS Threat Policies? DNS Threat Policies are more than a DNS Blacklist. The
What makes a good "DNS Blacklist"? - Part 1
Reflections on Modern Actionable Threat Intelligence used to turn a DNS Resolver into a Critical Security Tool Akamai has just launched the Enterprise Threat Protection (ETP) platform. ETP is built on Akamai's global AnswerX Cloud that now reaches 28 countries and is expanding to new countries every month. As a new player in Cloud DNS resolver services, competitors will ask "why Akamai?" or "what gives Akamai the knowledge and capacity
A Rich Policy Language for the DNS
For many years ISPs in certain parts of the world have been required by their regulators/governments to redirect certain websites that were deemed malicious or suspicious. DNS offered a straightforward way to do this; and Nominum, now part of Akamai, is a DNS company, developed an early mechanism using a DNS zone file that made it simple for ISPs to comply. The technology was originally named "Malicious Domain Redirection" (MDR),
Petya/NotPetya: Ransomware Attacks in a New Form, bu ...
Ransomware has changed a lot since it was introduced back in 1989 by Dr. Joseph Popp, where 20,000 floppy disks were distributed via snail mail. The malware hid files on a victim's hard drive and encrypted only the file names, rather than the entire files themselves. As one might assume, the entire remediation process was manual, rather than digital. Popp's program asked victims to print the ransom note and send