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Informational articles and guides to help you learn more about technology topics in cybersecurity, cloud computing, and content delivery.

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Security

Security

Learn about cybersecurity

Cybersecurity fundamentals and modern techniques for safeguarding and defending electronic data from cyberattacks.

Akamai Security Research What Is Ransomware? What Is a Bot? What Is Malware? What Is DNSSEC? What is a Cyber Attack? What is Bot Detection?
Security

Learn about DDoS attacks

A DDoS attack is an attempt to overwhelm a website or online service with traffic from multiple sources in order to render it unavailable to users.

What Is a DDoS Attack? What Is an Attack Vector? What Is a Brute-Force Attack? What Is an ICMP Flood Attack? What Are Memcached DDoS Attacks? What Are SYN Flood DDoS Attacks? What Is a Slowloris DDoS Attack? What Is a UDP Flood DDoS Attack? What is DoS Protection?
Security

Learn about microsegmentation

Microsegmentation is an emerging security best practice that offers several advantages over more established approaches like network segmentation and application segmentation.

What Is Microsegmentation? What Is Lateral Movement? What Is Network Segmentation? What Is Application Control?
Security

Learn about Zero Trust

A Zero Trust security model is based on a philosophy that no person or device inside or outside of an organization's network should be granted access to connect to IT systems or services until authenticated and continuously verified.

What Is Zero Trust? What Is a Zero Trust Network? Where to Start with Zero Trust? What Is Multi-Factor Authentication? What Is a Web Gateway or Secure Web Gateway? What is Zero Trust Networking?

Learn about web application and API protection

Web application and API protection is a security measure that helps to protect web and mobile applications from attack. It can be implemented in a number of ways, including firewalls, web application firewalls, and intrusion detection and prevention systems.

What Is Web Application and API Protection (WAAP)? What Is a Web Application Firewall (WAF)? What Is API Security? What Is API Performance? What is App Security?

Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing

Learn about cloud computing

Cloud computing services are changing how businesses and public institutions use information technology.

What Is Cloud Computing? What is Cloud Load Balancing?
Cloud Computing

Learn about edge computing

Edge computing is a method of processing data locally, close to users and devices. This saves bandwidth and reduces latency, resulting in the high-speed digital experiences people have come to expect.

What Is Edge Computing?

Content Delivery – CDN

Content Delivery – CDN

Learn about CDNs

Content delivery networks, or CDNs, make online experiences faster and more reliable by delivering content closer to users.

What Is a CDN?
Content Delivery – CDN

Learn about streaming and media delivery

Demand for streaming media services and media delivery is growing quickly, presenting content providers with new revenue opportunities and new technical challenges as well.

Live Video Streaming Streaming Media Servers Streaming Media Services