Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing industries across Asia through generative content, intelligent automation, and rapid decision-making. However, this swift advancement also exposes enterprises to an alarming surge in cyber threats. The Alarming…
A recent report claims that Akamai is working with Morgan Stanley to explore strategic alternatives. On the table, apparently, is a sale of the company. To whom, though? The move may be in response to pressure from Elliot Management Corp, which holds a 6.5%…
Akamai and AT&T have renewed their global alliance, extending it through 2019. The agreement will keep Akamai’s CDN and web security services on AT&T’s business solutions menu, including the addition of DDoS capabilities. Akamai will also be able to further…
Unsecured IoT devices continued to drive significant DDoS attack traffic in the fourth quarter of 2016, according to Akamai’s latest State of the Internet / Security Report. The fourth quarter report also revealed that attacks greater than 100 Gbps increased…
A recent spate of attacks involving attackers using IoT devices to remotely generate attack traffic by using a 12-year old vulnerability in OpenSSH have been discovered by researchers at Akamai Technologies. Akamai notes that the research and subsequent…
Singtel announced it has expended its alliance with Akamai by becoming the world’s first telco provider to have its advanced security operations centre staff certified to deliver Akamai managed security services. The two companies teamed up last month to…
South Korea continued to have the highest average connection speed in the world at 27 Mbps while Singapore maintained its position as the country with the highest average peak connection speed at 157.3 Mbps. These were among the findings of the Akamai…
Global average internet connection speeds grew 12% sequentially during the first quarter to 6.3Mbps, according to Akamai’s latest State of the Internet report. The report aslso shows that the global average peak connection speed increased 6.8% to 34.7 Mbps…
Akamai Technologies has upgraded its flagship web performance solution Akamai Ion to improve the platform’s mobile capabilities. Ion is designed to accelerate the delivery of websites, web applications and mobile apps over fixed and cellular connections. The…
E-commerce presents enormous opportunity for retailers. Hong Kong’s 2014 sales value of Internet retailing, excluding tax, was HK$1.5 billion (Hong Kong Trade Development Council), and it is estimated to increase to HK$2.1 billion in 2019. As Singles’ Day,…