Name: Secure Your Business in 2024: Top Trends, Tips and Tricks
Start: 2023-12-13T17:00:00Z
End: 2023-12-13T17:01:00.000Z
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Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences — helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. Akamai Connected Cloud, a massively distributed edge and cloud platform, puts apps and experiences closer to users and keeps threats farther away. Learn more about Akamai’s cloud computing, security, and content delivery solutions.

Christmas is coming. With festive fun brewing in the air, we start to get excited for the most magical time of the year. But it’s not just Santa Claus who is coming to town, the hackers are out in their numbers too ready to take advantage of all of that Christmas cheer. 

In this episode of the ‘Monthly Threat Brief: The SIG Download’ series, brought to you by Akamai's Security Intelligence Group (SIG), Tricia Howard will give an update on what attacks we are seeing and what to be prepared for over the holiday period. 

Keep calm and jingle all the way.

SIG Download: Episode Three - The Holiday Hacks

How media companies are adapting to distributed cloud computing.

Hear what IT leaders told Forrester.

A recent Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Akamai shows that cloud costs, complexity, and regional challenges are still top of mind for media and entertainment leaders. Other concerns include:
 
• 67% said their organisation’s legacy systems are holding them back.
• 48% cited concerns with geographical challenges, such as data sovereignty and localisation.
• 48% said the volume of their online processing needs limit their flexibility.
 
Sign up today for a live webinar on 7 December to learn more about the study. The webinar will feature Akamai Principal Architect Peter Chave and guest speaker, Forrester Senior Analyst William McKeon-White.

Cloud Adoption Trends According to Media and Entertainment Leaders

In our latest monthly webcast, Tricia Howard and Akamai's Allen West delve into key threats of the past 30 days, covering DDoS attacks, a defeat web shell, fake browser updates, and more, all in a concise 15-minute discussion.

SIG Download: Episode Two - The DDoS Deepdive

Akamai Solutions Engineers explore observability for software applications, covering the pillars of logs, metrics, and traces, and how SaaS product teams can leverage open-source tech to achieve end-to-end visibility, empowering quick issue response, data-driven decisions, and an optimized user experience. By the end of the session, you’ll gain practical insights into distributed tracing, log aggregation, UX monitoring, and analytics tools for comprehensive observability across critical application areas.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

- The importance and benefits of observability for software applications.
- The three pillars of observability: logs, metrics, and traces.
- How SaaS product development teams can leverage open-source technology for end-to-end visibility.
- Strategies for quickly responding to issues and making data-driven decisions.
- Techniques for optimizing the user experience and improving overall application performance.
- Specific technologies like distributed tracing, log aggregation, UX monitoring, and analytics tools.
- How to achieve observability across all critical areas of your applications, from the code to the customer.

Achieving Complete Observability for SaaS Applications

Recognising vulnerabilities in even the best-designed APIs

Do you know that even the most well-designed APIs can be abused? Organisations invest resources in designing robust and efficient APIs to meet the demands of a connected world. However, a stark reality remains: Even the most meticulously crafted APIs are not immune to abuse. 

Join our API security experts in EMEA on Wednesday, 22 November, as we discuss API abuse and the fact that no API, no matter how well designed, is safe. We will cover:
- The anatomy of real API abuse
- A deep dive into common attack vectors such as injection attacks, credential stuffing, and data scraping
- API threat hunting tactics Register now and start protecting your APIs from abuse.

Register now and start protecting your APIs from abuse.

Guarding Against API Abuse

In the inaugural episode of our series, Tricia Howard, our series host from Akamai's security research team, is joined by Grace Wang, Senior Data Science Manager at Akamai. Together, they delve into the most recent security threats on their radar, shedding light on the intricate world of social engineering and the nuanced art of obfuscation. The discussion unfolds to reveal insights into a hospitality information stealer campaign, a magecart campaign, and other noteworthy instances, all condensed into a concise and engaging 15-minute dialogue.

SIG Download: Episode 1 - Social Engineering & Obfuscation

Join Akamai Solutions Engineers for “Portability in the Cloud: Best Practices for Building SaaS-Based Applications.” This on-demand session covers cloud-native technologies and architectures for developing scalable and agile SaaS-based applications, and you will learn about the benefits of microservices, containers, serverless computing, and event-driven architecture, as well as the best practices for designing, implementing, and maintaining them.

In this session, you’ll learn:

- Best practices for designing, implementing, and maintaining microservices, including using domain-driven design, automating testing and deployment, and securing services.
- Benefits of containers, such as improved scalability and simplified application management, and best practices for their use, including optimizing container usage and achieving faster development and testing cycles.
- Benefits of serverless computing, including automatic scaling and reduced operational overhead, and best practices for using event-driven architecture, monitoring and logging, securing functions, and cost optimization.
- Basics and benefits of event-driven architecture, and best practices for its implementation.
- Benefits of adopting a portable cloud-native architecture for SaaS-based applications, including improved scalability, availability, agility, reduced costs, security, resilience, and easier management, while also increasing the ability to innovate and stay ahead of the competition.

Portability in the Cloud: Cloud-Native Architecture for SaaS Applications

Join Diana Kelley and guests in the 49th episode of The Security Balancing Act as they examine cross-cloud management, and explore the best way to approach cloud management, in a way that allows for secure data sharing across cloud providers.

-  What it means to be cross-cloud
-  Native tools vs. 3rd party for continuous monitoring
-  Normalizing reporting and controls across clouds
-  Managing SIGs, STIGs, and CIS in a multi-cloud world

A Guide To Cross Cloud Risk Management

It’s no surprise that API adoption is growing rapidly. The reality is that new business innovation and services are powered by APIs. But the rush to innovate is leaving security teams struggling to understand the very real security risks that APIs pose. Today, APIs carry vast amounts of data and are increasingly targets in data breaches. Featuring Forrester’s Principal Analyst Sandy Carielli, this talk will explain the very real risks of APIs and how organizations can improve their security posture. 

Is this webinar you will:
- Learn the latest API Security trends from Forrester
- Understand common API security concerns
- See the importance of API Discovery
- Understand how to use behavioral analytics for APIs

Your APIs Talk Too Much: Understanding API Security Problems

The Monthly Threat Brief: The SIG Download is a brand new and unique monthly webcast series brought to you by Akamai's very own Security Intelligence Group (SIG). Each episode will go over the most notable threats and the coolest security research that has hit our radar in the last 30 days, and highlight what to pay attention to in just 15 minutes. Watch this promo video and if you like what you see join us on our series channel at https://series.brighttalk.com/series/6051/

Monthly Threat Brief: The SIG Download - Episode Zero

Delighting gamers is a real challenge for the gaming industry. Traditionally, insights into the gamer experience and the gamer journey are generated after the fact. These insights are restricted to “what happened” rather than “what is happening right now”. 

Leveraging operational data can make a big difference to how game studios and developers can ensure they are delighting their gaming communities, understanding their experiences, and acting on those insights in real time, when it matters the most. 

In this talk, we will discuss:
- Operational data and how it can be used to delight gamers
- The Macrometa GDN and how it works with operational data
- How game developers can work with Akamai and Macrometa

Speakers:
- Alan Evans, EMEA Alliance Director, Akamai
- Chetan Venkatesh, CEO, Macrometa
- Chrissie Buchanan, Senior Director of Marketing, Macrometa

Using Operational Data to Delight Gamers

Akamai observes ransomware attackers are rampantly abusing zero and one-day vulnerabilities, leading to 2.4x growth in victims. Sign up now for our upcoming webinar to learn more about our data findings, such as: 

• 143% growth in ransomware victims 
• LockBit dominates the ransomware scene, accounting for 39% of victim organizations 
• Attacks against  manufacturing are proliferating, resulting in 42% growth in victims 
• Victims of multiple ransomware groups are almost 6x more likely to experience a subsequent attack within the first three months of the initial attack
• Ransomware groups increasingly target the exfiltration of files

Part 1: Wednesday, 6 September 11:00 EST| 16:00 BST | 17:00 CEST
Part 2: Wednesday, 13 September 11:00 EST| 16:00 BST | 17:00 CEST

Expert speakers: 

Ori David
Security Researcher
Akamai

Richard Meeus
Director of Security Technology and Strategy, EMEA 
Akamai

Ransomware on the Move - Part 2

Ransomware on the Move - Part 1

Organisations have now been building in the cloud for years. They have migrated existing workloads and most organisations have started to modernise applications to take advantage of the flexibility that cloud can offer and to deliver best of breed services and differentiation that each cloud offers. These cloud-smart organisations are incorporating distributed and edge cloud capabilities that multiply redundancy, improve end user performance, and reduce costs.

However, clouds have failed to deliver on lower costs and applications remain siloed in a single cloud. What’s the next step? Are there opportunities to create future forward applications that will save costs and provide better user experiences?

Discover how Akamai Connected Cloud brings together the world’s most distributed platform for cloud computing, security, and content delivery.

From Cloud Native to Native Clouds – Scaling your Business to the Edge

Applications run our world, they run your business. They also introduce vulnerabilities that multiply as we become ever more connected. APIs help enable that business growth as the connective tissue that powers digital transformation. Their adoption is widespread, with businesses continually opening API access to more partners, applications, mobile apps, and IOT devices. But how are organisations expected to protect this ever-changing API estate? How do you know what is good and bad behaviour on each API your organisation uses? This API blindspot is becoming the biggest security problem for today’s businesses. 

In this talk you will learn:
- The scope of the business problem of API abuse across EMEA
- Where traditional security products fail
- How mature is your organisation on understanding API security issues
- How to prepare your organisation and adopt API security best practices

Speakers:
- Menachem Perlman, Director Solutions Engineering, Akamai
- Richard Meeus, Director of Security Technology and Strategy, EMEA, Akamai

API Attacks Are on the Rise: Are You Prepared?

Con l'adozione sempre più diffusa delle architetture a microservizi, è fondamentale comprendere le sfide legate alla sicurezza in queste complesse infrastrutture. Gli ambienti a orchestrazione di microservizi, come Kubernetes, consentono alle organizzazioni di scalare e gestire le loro applicazioni in modo efficiente, ma hanno innalzato il rischio di minacce informatiche e violazioni dei dati. La sicurezza del traffico est-ovest è diventata una preoccupazione fondamentale per le organizzazioni che cercano di proteggere i loro asset critici.
 
In questo Webinar di 30 minuti, attraverso dei semplici casi d’uso, vi mostreremo come con Akamai Guardicore Segmentation potrete:
- Ottenere completa visibilità del traffico Est – Ovest.
- Applicare facilmente regole di segmentazione per evitare movimenti laterali.
- Applicare una strategia univoca a tutti gli asset, evitando il proliferare di strumenti specifici per ogni ambiente

Protezione del Traffico East-West negli ambienti a microservizi

Extortion is the criminal business model that is dominating the headlines. Join Akamai and IDC to hear about the most effective ways to stop the “Cyber Triple Extortion” threat from impacting your company. This webinar will cover common attack groups, the techniques they use, and how to stop them based on an integrated security strategy. Our panel includes IDC’s Christopher Rodriguez; Akamai’s Advisory CISO, Steve Winterfeld; and Akamai’s Cloud Security Product Manager, Venkat Praneeth Nangineni.

Defending the Triple Threat

2023 has seen the security landscape shift enormously. From threat exposure management to the advancement of generative AI - security leaders have had a lot on their plate.

 In the final episode of the year, Diana Kelley and guests will discuss the most notable security trends from 2023, and how to apply these learnings to our security strategy in 2024.

Join us as we discuss: 
-  GenAI mania: security of GenAI, ethics and privacy considerations
-  Is it time to talk about quantum?
-  The evolution of zero trust 
-  And much more! 

Make sure to bring your own 2023 trends and predictions for 2024 for our panellists to explore!

Secure Your Business in 2024: Top Trends, Tips and Tricks

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