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Bad bots are a tough issue for online merchants: They overload your backend servers with API requests which will never generate revenue; They scalp your most wanted items, leaving your real shoppers with nothing but disappointment; and worst of all – as they retool and grow smarter, they make you constantly chase them. You, as […]

Which IT Nuisance Would You Automate First? Employee onboarding is one of the heaviest, most complex operations on a company’s IT. This is especially true in fast-growing companies that may see multiple onboardings per day. And, of course, the wider a company’s software tools array, the more accounts to create and permissions to manage. In […]

Pronounced ‘sassy’, SASE (Secure Access Service Edge), is a terminology first proposed by Gartner. While there are many definitions of SASE, it can be simply said to be a network architecture that combines the capabilities of SD-WAN with network security functions and delivers it as a service delivered via the cloud. What is SASE used […]

What is the most annoying thing about compliance work? Out of 150 security leaders surveyed on Pulse, 41% pointed out their struggle for cooperation from core teams in producing evidence needed for InfoSec audits. In other words, compliance work is ungrateful and unpopular. Cloud compliance in hyper-growth companies poses a significant challenge in terms of […]

In a world of quickly-expanding cloud traffic, SASE has emerged as the clear choice for ensuring a proactive security posture and consistent protection against emerging cloud-native threats. SASE also gains popularity for converging security and speed – a potent combination which helps realize the potential of the cloud. Read more in our guide “How to […]

Which is more important: security or speed? This question has long been a source of concern for businesses worldwide, and it can leave many organizations vulnerable to hacks in the name of doing things fast and improving employee work experience.  Starting today, to foster corporate security and growth, you do not need to compromise your […]

If you use Okta without any additional Active or LDAP Directory and want to use the existing user and groups from Okta in Akamai’s EAA, this article becomes handy to you. Especially if you use Okta as an Identity Provider (IDP) for your EAA applications. Instructions We have to parts here: Part One: Okta Configuration […]

The recent global DNS outages, with the latest addition of Facebook-Instagram-WhatsApp, are a call to transform your approach to DNS solutions. In this webinar, we explore whether cloud-borne environments are really fail-proof and how businesses can use the most advanced cybersecurity methods and DNS solutions to minimize their risk of server failures, code misconfigurations, DDoS […]

Last week’s massive outage on the Facebook-Instagram-WhatsApp ecosystem left many of us puzzled and concerned: How did our entire social communication (and news source for many) become so dependent in a single, non-regulated conglomerate? How come this conglomerate can fail over a seemingly-trivial reason such as DNS? And what are the dangers of our over-reliance […]

The real big winners of eCommerce surge 2020 saw the largest year-over-year growth in eCommerce sales. Throughout this growth, fraudsters continued to develop sophisticated attacks to fill their pockets. One of the most devastating attack types is automated fraud: bots that mimic the actions of a real customer so they can bypass fraud prevention tools. […]

Which is more important to your business, security or speed? This has long troubled business owners worldwide and can leave many companies vulnerable to cyberattacks in a bid to optimize user experience. But you don’t need to compromise your level of enterprise security to nurture business growth. Until today, IT security often created roadblocks for […]

Passwords are obsolete. Memorizing long and complicated passwords has been holding back businesses for over 50 years, while cyberattacks are evolving every day. ¹ In fact, Google has registered over 2 million phishing sites as of January 2021. The figure is up from 1.7 million in January 2020, a 27% increase year on year. ² […]