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Introducing AI Assistant for Akamai Web Security Analytics

Akamai launched an AI Assistant for Web Security Analytics, giving SOC and AppSec teams natural-language event investigation and guided response actions.

Akamai introduced an AI Assistant integrated with its Web Security Analytics offering, designed to let SOC and AppSec teams investigate security events faster. The assistant supports natural-language queries and guided action recommendations for analysts. The announcement is a vendor product launch with no incident details.

Akamai Blog · 5d agoTools

NIS2 Compliance in the AI Age: Why Traditional Cybersecurity Isn’t Enough

Akamai argues NIS2 compliance is harder in the AI age, outlining four key challenges and urging network segmentation as essential.

An Akamai blog post claims achieving compliance with the EU's NIS2 directive is more challenging in the AI era and describes four key challenges organizations face. It argues traditional cybersecurity approaches are insufficient and positions network segmentation as essential for compliance. The piece is vendor commentary rather than new regulatory guidance or enforcement news.

Akamai Blog · 6d agoIndustry

Inside AI-Powered WAF Detections: Architecture and Safety Controls

Akamai published a technical breakdown of the architecture and safety controls behind its AI-powered WAF detections.

Akamai published a technical blog post examining the architecture of its AI-powered web application firewall detections. Per the title, the piece covers the design and safety controls applied to machine-learning-based WAF detections.

Akamai Blog · 7d agoTools

Introducing More Granular Controls for AI Bot Traffic

Akamai introduced more granular controls for managing AI bot traffic within its bot management platform.

Akamai announced the introduction of more granular controls for handling AI bot traffic in its bot management offering. Detailed feature specifications were not available in the provided source text, which included only the title.

Akamai Blog · 12d agoTools

Your DNS Is Hiding in HTTPS — This Is Why It Matters

Akamai argues that unmanaged DNS over HTTPS (DoH) creates enterprise visibility gaps and advocates controlled DoH strategies to restore DNS monitoring.

Akamai published a blog post arguing that unmanaged DNS over HTTPS encrypts DNS queries outside enterprise visibility, creating security monitoring gaps. The post advocates a controlled DoH strategy that restores DNS visibility for defenders while preserving user privacy. No specific incidents, vulnerabilities, or products are cited in the advisory-style piece.

Akamai Blog · 13d agoIndustry

Streamlining Application and API Discovery and Governance

Akamai outlines an approach to streamlining application and API discovery and governance to reduce application and API risk.

An Akamai blog post addresses streamlining application and API discovery and governance as a way to manage application and API risk. Article body was not available, so specific product details, findings, and recommendations could not be extracted. The piece appears oriented toward Akamai's application and API security capabilities for inventorying and governing APIs.

Akamai Blog · 15d agoTools

Zero-Day Dominance: How Akamai Defends Before the Industry Discloses

Akamai published vendor marketing on how its platform defends customers against zero-day exploits before industry-wide disclosure.

Akamai published a blog post titled 'Zero-Day Dominance: How Akamai Defends Before the Industry Discloses'; no article body text was available. Based on the title, the piece promotes Akamai's capabilities for protecting customers from zero-day exploits ahead of public disclosure. No specific vulnerabilities, CVEs, incidents, or customers are identified.

Akamai Blog · 18d agoIndustry

Akamai’s Customer-First Approach to Application Protection Costs

Akamai outlines a customer-first pricing approach for its application protection and web application security offerings.

Akamai published a vendor piece describing its customer-first approach to application protection costs. The article concerns pricing for its web application and API security offerings rather than a security incident. No technical details were available in the source text.

Akamai Blog · 19d agoIndustry

Identifying Agentic Automation with Behavioral Telemetry: Part 2

Akamai details behavioral telemetry signals for identifying agentic automation traffic in the second part of its research series.

Akamai published part two of its series on identifying agentic automation using behavioral telemetry. The post appears on Akamai's security research blog and focuses on detecting AI-agent-driven traffic. Full article text was unavailable at classification time, so classification relies on the title and source.

Akamai Blog · 19d agoResearch

Not the Coyote, but the Road Runner: The Reality of Autonomous AI Attacks

Akamai argues autonomous AI attacks succeed through relentless, low-technique automation rather than novel super-weapons, which defeats traditional human-paced defenses.

Akamai's analysis contends that autonomous AI-driven attacks are not sophisticated new weapons but persistent, low-technique attacks that run continuously without human limits. The piece argues traditional defenses fail because they assume human-paced adversaries. It frames machine-speed, always-on attack cycles as the defining challenge for defenders.

Akamai Blog · 20d agoAI safety & security

Closing the Gap Between Detection and Protection with AI-Assisted Custom Rules

Akamai describes using AI-assisted custom rules to close the gap between threat detection and active protection in security operations.

Akamai published a blog post on AI-assisted custom rules intended to close the gap between detecting threats and enforcing protections. The post appears to be a vendor capability discussion for security operations teams. No article text was available beyond the title, so further technical details are limited.

Akamai Blog · 22d agoTools1

Deconstructing the Architecture of AI-Orchestrated Web Attacks

Akamai analyzes the architecture of AI-orchestrated web attacks, examining how AI-driven automation is reshaping offensive web operations.

Akamai published an analysis deconstructing the architecture of web attacks orchestrated with AI, based on the available title. The piece examines how AI-driven automation changes the structure of offensive web operations. No article text was provided, so specific findings are limited.

Akamai Blog · 22d agoResearch

PacketFence Cloud: Enterprise Network Access Control, Now a Managed Service

Akamai announces PacketFence Cloud, delivering PacketFence enterprise network access control as a managed service.

Akamai published a blog post introducing PacketFence Cloud, an offering that delivers enterprise network access control (NAC) as a managed service. No further article text was available, so additional technical details are limited.

Akamai Blog · 26d agoTools

Identifying Agentic Automation with Behavioral Telemetry

Akamai describes detecting autonomous AI browser agents like Comet using Masked Autoencoder Transformer models on sparse behavioral telemetry.

Akamai researchers present a behavioral telemetry approach for identifying agentic automation in web traffic. Masked Autoencoder Transformer models are used to detect the sparse behavioral signals produced by autonomous AI browser agents such as Comet. The work targets traffic classification and bot detection rather than a specific vulnerability, and becomes more relevant as agentic browsing adoption grows.

Akamai Blog · 27d agoAI safety & security1

Future-Proofing the Internet: Akamai Achieves End-to-End PQC

Akamai says it achieved end-to-end post-quantum cryptography across its network to future-proof internet traffic.

Akamai announced it has achieved end-to-end post-quantum cryptography (PQC) across its services. The company frames the move as future-proofing the internet against quantum decryption threats. No article text was available; details are limited to the announcement title.

Akamai Blog · 27d agoIndustry

Akamai Valkey Managed Database: Real-Time Memory for Enterprise AI

Akamai launched Valkey Managed Database, a low-latency in-memory data layer aimed at cutting AI inference costs and accelerating RAG.

Akamai introduced Valkey Managed Database, a managed in-memory data service based on the open-source Valkey project. The company positions it as real-time memory for enterprise AI, optimizing inference costs, accelerating retrieval-augmented generation, and powering real-time AI agents.

Akamai Blog · 28d agoAI tools & infra

Your Website Now Has Two Audiences: Humans and AI

Akamai argues websites now serve two audiences — humans and AI agents — reshaping web traffic, content delivery, and site design considerations.

Akamai published a blog post examining how websites now face traffic from both human visitors and AI systems such as crawlers and agents. The piece frames this dual audience as a trend affecting how sites are built, measured, and managed. No further article text was available, so specific findings are not known.

Akamai Blog · 29d agoAI industry