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The alliance between the companies will aim to empower security operations teams to scale secure access in a hybrid working era.

Akamai Technologies has announced the availability of API Security, a product designed to stop API attacks and detects business logic abuse inside APIs.

Akamai Technologies, the cloud security company, has released a new State of the Internet report that spotlights the evolving ransomware landscape. 

Akamai finds that in APJ more than 1.15 billion web attacks were recorded in the commerce sector, across retail and hotel and travel verticals.

Akamai Technologies has released a new State of the Internet report, titled 'Slipping Through The Security Gaps: The Rise of Application and API Attacks Against Organisations'.

The results are based on a survey of 386 respondents across ANZ, Japan, China, India, Singapore, and South Korea.

The combined API solutions are expected to put Akamai at the forefront of a critical emerging category of API security for which customers are actively seeking support.

The capabilities are designed to help OTT operators deliver higher quality and more personalised video experiences to viewers, the company states.

"These sentiments are clear from the latest insights we have gathered from our partners, and this is why Akamai is investing heavily in scaling our cloud computing capabilities."

Akamai Technologies, the distributed edge and cloud company, has introduced an updated managed security service program and premium service offerings.

Customers will now have increased access to Akamai security experts to help protect them from sophisticated cyberattacks.

“These new offerings for Akamai Guardicore Segmentation customers will extend protection to devices that have historically been difficult to secure."

Cloud services provider Akamai Technologies is building a Scrubbing Centre and Cloud Data Centre in Auckland to defend against DDoS attacks.

DDoS can serve as a cover for other, potentially more damaging cyber activities such as infiltration and exfiltration of data and malware installation. 

The new services offer a fundamentally different approach to the cloud by integrating core and distributed computing sites with a massively scaled edge network.

Akamai Technologies has launched Akamai Connected Cloud, a massively distributed edge and cloud platform for computing, security and content delivery.

"Security teams are also under immense pressure to defend against a booming arsenal of increasingly sophisticated attacks."

"We continually monitor and improve our capabilities to defend customers from new threats, while enabling customers to protect evolving attack surfaces."

The State of the Internet report shows gaming companies and gamer accounts are at risk, following a surge in web application attacks post pandemic.

Web application attacks in the gaming sector have grown by 167% from Q1 2021 to Q1 2022, according to new research from Akamai.

Akamai Technologies has revealed that nearly 30% of ransomware attacks worldwide launched by Conti targeted the manufacturing industry.

New research from Akamai has found that a new threat actor is parasitising benign WordPress sites to execute an extensive PayPal phishing scam.

Akamai Technologies has released three new research reports focusing on ransomware, web applications and APIs, and DNS traffic.

Akamai Technologies and Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand have entered a strategic relationship to assist organisations in the region.