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Cybersecurity threats have been on the rise in recent years, and it has become more important than ever to secure your endpoints. Endpoints are the devices and machines that connect to your network and can include everything from laptops and mobile phones to IoT...

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are becoming increasingly common, and businesses of all sizes are at risk. A DDoS attack is an attempt to overwhelm a website or online service by flooding it with traffic from multiple sources, making it unavailable to...

Akamai's Guardicore Micro segmentation is a powerful security solution that helps organisations protect their network by creating smaller, more manageable segments. The solution uses software-defined policies to control access to resources based on user identity,...

Check Point Horizon is a cloud-based security management solution that allows businesses to centralize and streamline their security operations. With the increasing complexity of cyber threats and the growing number of security tools needed to defend against them,...

In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has become an increasingly popular technology in the manufacturing industry. With the ability to connect machines and devices, IoT provides manufacturers with the ability to optimise their operations, increase efficiency,...

Check Point and Sophos are both popular cybersecurity solutions that offer comprehensive protection against various cyber threats. However, Check Point is generally considered better than Sophos for several reasons:1.     Advanced Threat...

Recorded Future is a leading threat intelligence company that provides a platform to help organisations protect themselves from cyber attacks. Founded in 2009, the company offers real-time threat intelligence that helps customers identify and respond to threats...

With the costs of running a business sky rocketing at the minute, and oil and gas prices going through the roof you may be looking for ways to save a bit of cash? You may also be thinking that with a lot of you employees working in a hybrid environment you want the...

You need help. Your website is slow (we have bench-marked it) and it has errors from third party apps and they also slow first-paint down. Understand immediately how any changes made to your website impacts your users' experiences. Imagine if it gave you real insight...

What can we expect to achieve from utilising a CDN (Content Delivery Network)? What features should we expect to gain from an ideal CDN?  What Are the Benefits of a CDN? CDNs carry a significant portion of the world’s Internet traffic. Akamai handles for...

Fastly, founded in 2011, is a so-called next Generation CDN, providing acceleration and video services. It was originally built addressing a DevOps audience given its technical foundation over it’ ‘Varnish’ technology and strong focus on APIs. Fastly uses web...

Akamai has lots of useful statistics to support the theory that page load time directly impacts revenue and conversion. After all, Akamai sees 40% of the world’s Internet traffic daily.Figures to consider (Akamai SOASTA April 2017) areA 100-millisecond delay in...

Akamai invented the edge 22 years ago. The edge is where users connect, where clouds, devices, and immense streams of data come together.Top brands globally rely on Akamai to help them realise competitive advantage through agile solutions that extend the power of...

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is designed to scale the web properties (also known as the origin) which is done in four different areas Performance, Optimisation, Monitoring and Automation.A traditional CDN makes web content faster for the end users. For the sites...

At ITogether we are often talking to customers about Akamai for the first time. We evangelise everything Akamai and we love them and their platform !We often get into a conversation along the lines of ‘how big’ ‘how resilient’ ‘how much traffic’ ‘what happens if’ –...

A question we come across quite frequently is ‘Why is Akamai so much better than Cloudflare ?’ - of course this question can have many elements to both the question and the answer, but if we consider a potential customer of either vendor is considering CDN services...

If you are considering an Arbor Networks (now part of NetScout) solution to protect your organisation from DDoS then you might want to read this article.Arbor Networks is a software company founded in 2000 and based in Burlington, Massachusetts. Arbor sells network...

Traffic on Akamai’s intelligent edge platform reached 106 Tbps week commencing 21st October 2019, beating the 100 Tbps mark for the first time in the company’s 20-year history.This is “roughly the same as downloading 3,300 two-hour HD movies every second, or...