Akamai Applies for Mobile Security and Sensitive Data Handling Patents In July 2015, the CEO of Akamai, Tom Leighton, applied for a patent titled “Method and system for handling sensitive data in a content delivery network.” This publication outlines a
Sharktech, one of the earliest providers of DDoS mitigation services continues to forge ahead into enterprise space, providing security solutions to its customers around the world, including to numerous state agencies. We recently got the chance to talk to CEO
Akamai has released its Q4 2015 earnings report, highlighting its year over year performance and security solutions revenue growth of 16% and 17% in 2015 year over year. Similarly, their fastest growing sector, cloud security solutions revenue, was up 46%
At 1.35 billion users and counting with an “always on” site, Facebook’s network infrastructure demands scalability and rapid evolution. Facebook’s network experiences machine to machine traffic several orders of magnitude larger than machine to user traffic, and this traffic is
In 2014, Google released their UDP-based protocol, QUIC, that was built to improve upon TCP by providing “lower-latency connection establishment, improved congestion control, and better loss recovery.” Google’s largest improvements as a result of implementing QUIC have been observed when
Efficiency of HTTPS Long Polling and MQTT with SSL on Android According to Stephen Nicholas, a Super Geek and “IBMer” – MQTT, designed to provide mobile users with low-latency and low power usage messaging over fragile networks, and secure request-response
Connection Pooling and Late Binding to Reduce Roundtrip Latency A common concern in routing is determining how to obtain minimal roundtrip latency to a remote server. To control the number of concurrently established connections and avoid setup costs, connections are
Semiweekly Technical Updates Java Zero-Day Attacked Again The popular software companies WebSphere, WebLogic, JBoss, Jenkins, and OpenNMS were exposed as highly vulnerable to zero-day exploits and potentially Remote Code Execution attacks on application servers, according to FoxGlove security in November
Semiweekly Updates Is Level 3 The Next U.S. DoD’s CDN? The United States Department of Defense’s Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) will be offering contracts worth up to $4.3 billion to AT&T, CenturyLink, Level 3, Verizon Business, Artel, BT, GTT
Top Weekly Updates Akamai Issues Q3 2015 State of Internet Report, Partners with Google and Microsoft Akamai, the global content delivery network (CDN) leader, has released its State of the Internet Report for the third quarter of 2015. Average global
Top Weekly Updates Imperva’s Incapsula Chosen to Provide Security of Medical and Scientific Publishing Company In June 2015, Karger Publishers was the victim of a massive worldwide DDoS attack, a paid HTTPS attack, that increased their traffic by 70 percent
