A major media company was the target of hacktivists that felt the organization was being critical of the Occupy Wall St. movement in the United States. Bent on extracting revenge and embarrassing the company, the hacktivist group sought to halt the company’s Web operations. With this goal in mind, it launched a large-scale Web-based attack using multiple
attack strategies including the Low Orbit Ion Cannon attack tool, SQL Injections, and other attack vectors across approximately 20 of the media company’s digital properties. These attack methods have become common practices for those seeking to take part in a botnet attack, and are often associated with one of the world’s largest, most feared computer hacking groups, Anonymous. Read how the company stopped more than 4 million malicious requests in 24 hours, ensured uptime across 19 global media properties, and prevented attack traffic from reaching the company's origin servers.
For more information on Akamai's Kona Security Solutions, please visit: http://www.akamai.com/html/solutions/site_defender.html
Data Driven Competitive Differentiation
"Why would customers choose you?" We all need to answer this critical question for our businesses as in today’s digital economy customers have endless choices. User Experience is one of the key pillars of competitive differentiation and brand recognition to enable you to acquire new customers and retain the existing ones as they all turn to business who make it fast, seamless and engaging for them. "Real time Data" plays a crucial role in understanding what your user's are experiencing in real time and using it to drive positive business outcomes. But more often than not we are buried under piles of siloed data but hardly any actionable information. Join us as we share how our customers are achieving their goals by understanding the relationship between Performance and Business.
Data Driven Competitive Differentiation
"Why would customers choose you?" We all need to answer this critical question for our businesses as in today’s digital economy customers have endless choices. User Experience is one of the key pillars of competitive differentiation and brand recognition to enable you to acquire new customers and retain the existing ones as they all turn to business who make it fast, seamless and engaging for them. "Real time Data" plays a crucial role in understanding what your user's are experiencing in real time and using it to drive positive business outcomes. But more often than not we are buried under piles of siloed data but hardly any actionable information. Join us as we share how our customers are achieving their goals by understanding the relationship between Performance and Business.
The Web Experience Foundry will be dedicated to researching and prototyping projects and technologies that the Web Experience business unit feels are potentially important for the future of its product lines. The primary goals will be:
- Gain a solid understanding of new technology and how it could (or could not) be used in Web Experience products (Discovery).
- Prototype new technologies and create proof of concepts to validate or invalidate a technologies potential utility.
- Research new concepts and look for ways they can improve our existing product lines.”
Edge 2014: Maintaining the Balance: Getting the Most of Your CDN with IKEAAkamai Technologies
Maintaining the Balance: Getting the Most of Your CDN by Johannes Eckerdal, Product Specialist, IKEA
Join Johannes Eckerdal, CDN Product Specialist of Ikea for an informative supersession where he will discuss how to transform your Content Delivery Network into an Experience Delivery Network and other topics including: Why the Edge matters, Considerations around CDN agnostic versus CDN dependent approaches, How to extract the most of your CDN
Akamai Edge is the premier event for Internet innovators, tech professionals and online business pioneers who together are forging a Faster Forward World. At Edge, the architects, experts and implementers of the most innovative global online businesses gather face-to-face for an invaluable three days of sharing, learning and together pushing the limits of the Faster Forward World. Learn more at: http://www.akamai.com/edge
Edge 2014: Increasing Control with Property Manager with eBayAkamai Technologies
Increasing Control with Property Manager by Steve Lerner
Senior Member of Technical Staff, Network Engineering, eBay & Jay Sikkeland, Senior Technical Project Manager, Akamai Technologies
Property Manager, Akamai's next generation configuration tool, enables engineers a new level of control and visibility for Akamai configurations. Steve Lerner, Sr. Member of Technical Staff from eBay Network Engineering, will demonstrate advanced techniques available in Property Manager designed for a new level of use-cases for Content Delivery Network monitoring and control. He will also demonstrate how key Property Manager settings and Akamai services impact eBay's own metrics and performance.
Akamai Edge is the premier event for Internet innovators, tech professionals and online business pioneers who together are forging a Faster Forward World. At Edge, the architects, experts and implementers of the most innovative global online businesses gather face-to-face for an invaluable three days of sharing, learning and together pushing the limits of the Faster Forward World. Learn more at: http://www.akamai.com/edge
Edge 2014: Bypass Surgery - Akamai's Heartbleed Response Case StudyAkamai Technologies
Bypass Surgery - Akamai's Heartbleed Response Case Study by Brian Sniffen, Chief Security Architect, Akamai Technologies
In April of this year, the inevitable happened and Akamai's network was determined to be vulnerable to the Heartbleed bug. The practice of information security is both about preventing vulnerabilities and mitigating vulnerabilities when they're found. In this case study, Akamai Chief Security Architect Brian Sniffen will walk through Akamai's response to the Heartbleed vulnerability and provide insights into the lessons to be learned for improved security processes and incident response.
Akamai Edge is the premier event for Internet innovators, tech professionals and online business pioneers who together are forging a Faster Forward World. At Edge, the architects, experts and implementers of the most innovative global online businesses gather face-to-face for an invaluable three days of sharing, learning and together pushing the limits of the Faster Forward World. Learn more at: http://www.akamai.com/edge
MPEG DASH – Tomorrow's Format Today by Nicolas Weil
Senior Solutions Architect, Akamai Technologies & Will Law, Chief Architect, Media Cloud Engineering, Akamai Technologies
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Akamai Edge is the premier event for Internet innovators, tech professionals and online business pioneers who together are forging a Faster Forward World. At Edge, the architects, experts and implementers of the most innovative global online businesses gather face-to-face for an invaluable three days of sharing, learning and together pushing the limits of the Faster Forward World. Learn more at: http://www.akamai.com/edge
A Modern Approach to Performance Monitoring by Cliff Crocker, VP of Product Management, SOASTA
"How fast are you? How fast should you be? How do you get there? In this talk Cliff will discuss traditional approaches to performance measurement and introduce a ""RUM First"" methodology. This approach begins with capturing performance directly from the end user as the single source of truth for cross-functional organizations focused on performance.
Along the way, you will discover the relationship between RUM and synthetic monitoring, learn what to measure and how to capture it and finally how perceived performance impacts human behavior and your bottom line.
Akamai Edge is the premier event for Internet innovators, tech professionals and online business pioneers who together are forging a Faster Forward World. At Edge, the architects, experts and implementers of the most innovative global online businesses gather face-to-face for an invaluable three days of sharing, learning and together pushing the limits of the Faster Forward World. Learn more at: http://www.akamai.com/edge
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
The Web Experience Foundry will be dedicated to researching and prototyping projects and technologies that the Web Experience business unit feels are potentially important for the future of its product lines. The primary goals will be:
- Gain a solid understanding of new technology and how it could (or could not) be used in Web Experience products (Discovery).
- Prototype new technologies and create proof of concepts to validate or invalidate a technologies potential utility.
- Research new concepts and look for ways they can improve our existing product lines.”
Edge 2014: Maintaining the Balance: Getting the Most of Your CDN with IKEAAkamai Technologies
Maintaining the Balance: Getting the Most of Your CDN by Johannes Eckerdal, Product Specialist, IKEA
Join Johannes Eckerdal, CDN Product Specialist of Ikea for an informative supersession where he will discuss how to transform your Content Delivery Network into an Experience Delivery Network and other topics including: Why the Edge matters, Considerations around CDN agnostic versus CDN dependent approaches, How to extract the most of your CDN
Akamai Edge is the premier event for Internet innovators, tech professionals and online business pioneers who together are forging a Faster Forward World. At Edge, the architects, experts and implementers of the most innovative global online businesses gather face-to-face for an invaluable three days of sharing, learning and together pushing the limits of the Faster Forward World. Learn more at: http://www.akamai.com/edge
Edge 2014: Increasing Control with Property Manager with eBayAkamai Technologies
Increasing Control with Property Manager by Steve Lerner
Senior Member of Technical Staff, Network Engineering, eBay & Jay Sikkeland, Senior Technical Project Manager, Akamai Technologies
Property Manager, Akamai's next generation configuration tool, enables engineers a new level of control and visibility for Akamai configurations. Steve Lerner, Sr. Member of Technical Staff from eBay Network Engineering, will demonstrate advanced techniques available in Property Manager designed for a new level of use-cases for Content Delivery Network monitoring and control. He will also demonstrate how key Property Manager settings and Akamai services impact eBay's own metrics and performance.
Akamai Edge is the premier event for Internet innovators, tech professionals and online business pioneers who together are forging a Faster Forward World. At Edge, the architects, experts and implementers of the most innovative global online businesses gather face-to-face for an invaluable three days of sharing, learning and together pushing the limits of the Faster Forward World. Learn more at: http://www.akamai.com/edge
Edge 2014: Bypass Surgery - Akamai's Heartbleed Response Case StudyAkamai Technologies
Bypass Surgery - Akamai's Heartbleed Response Case Study by Brian Sniffen, Chief Security Architect, Akamai Technologies
In April of this year, the inevitable happened and Akamai's network was determined to be vulnerable to the Heartbleed bug. The practice of information security is both about preventing vulnerabilities and mitigating vulnerabilities when they're found. In this case study, Akamai Chief Security Architect Brian Sniffen will walk through Akamai's response to the Heartbleed vulnerability and provide insights into the lessons to be learned for improved security processes and incident response.
Akamai Edge is the premier event for Internet innovators, tech professionals and online business pioneers who together are forging a Faster Forward World. At Edge, the architects, experts and implementers of the most innovative global online businesses gather face-to-face for an invaluable three days of sharing, learning and together pushing the limits of the Faster Forward World. Learn more at: http://www.akamai.com/edge
MPEG DASH – Tomorrow's Format Today by Nicolas Weil
Senior Solutions Architect, Akamai Technologies & Will Law, Chief Architect, Media Cloud Engineering, Akamai Technologies
As an open standard designed to help simplify video delivery across connected devices, MPEG-DASH is continuing to gain momentum in the OTT, broadcast and wireless industries. Join Akamai's DASH experts for a discussion on what differentiates the emerging standard from legacy formats along with a demonstration showing the ease of deploying DASH playback across devices. The panel will also highlight current deployments, offer a review of the industry and provide a three-year outlook.
Akamai Edge is the premier event for Internet innovators, tech professionals and online business pioneers who together are forging a Faster Forward World. At Edge, the architects, experts and implementers of the most innovative global online businesses gather face-to-face for an invaluable three days of sharing, learning and together pushing the limits of the Faster Forward World. Learn more at: http://www.akamai.com/edge
A Modern Approach to Performance Monitoring by Cliff Crocker, VP of Product Management, SOASTA
"How fast are you? How fast should you be? How do you get there? In this talk Cliff will discuss traditional approaches to performance measurement and introduce a ""RUM First"" methodology. This approach begins with capturing performance directly from the end user as the single source of truth for cross-functional organizations focused on performance.
Along the way, you will discover the relationship between RUM and synthetic monitoring, learn what to measure and how to capture it and finally how perceived performance impacts human behavior and your bottom line.
Akamai Edge is the premier event for Internet innovators, tech professionals and online business pioneers who together are forging a Faster Forward World. At Edge, the architects, experts and implementers of the most innovative global online businesses gather face-to-face for an invaluable three days of sharing, learning and together pushing the limits of the Faster Forward World. Learn more at: http://www.akamai.com/edge
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
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Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Sudheer Mechineni, Head of Application Frameworks, Standard Chartered Bank
Discover how Standard Chartered Bank harnessed the power of Neo4j to transform complex data access challenges into a dynamic, scalable graph database solution. This keynote will cover their journey from initial adoption to deploying a fully automated, enterprise-grade causal cluster, highlighting key strategies for modelling organisational changes and ensuring robust disaster recovery. Learn how these innovations have not only enhanced Standard Chartered Bank’s data infrastructure but also positioned them as pioneers in the banking sector’s adoption of graph technology.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Future of Agility: Supercharging Digital Transfor...Neo4j
Leonard Jayamohan, Partner & Generative AI Lead, Deloitte
This keynote will reveal how Deloitte leverages Neo4j’s graph power for groundbreaking digital twin solutions, achieving a staggering 100x performance boost. Discover the essential role knowledge graphs play in successful generative AI implementations. Plus, get an exclusive look at an innovative Neo4j + Generative AI solution Deloitte is developing in-house.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 5DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 5. In this session, we will cover CI/CD with devops.
Topics covered:
CI/CD with in UiPath
End-to-end overview of CI/CD pipeline with Azure devops
Speaker:
Lyndsey Byblow, Test Suite Sales Engineer @ UiPath, Inc.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
SAP Sapphire 2024 - ASUG301 building better apps with SAP Fiori.pdfPeter Spielvogel
Building better applications for business users with SAP Fiori.
• What is SAP Fiori and why it matters to you
• How a better user experience drives measurable business benefits
• How to get started with SAP Fiori today
• How SAP Fiori elements accelerates application development
• How SAP Build Code includes SAP Fiori tools and other generative artificial intelligence capabilities
• How SAP Fiori paves the way for using AI in SAP apps
SAP Sapphire 2024 - ASUG301 building better apps with SAP Fiori.pdf
Global Media Company Website Attack Case Study - Akamai Kona
1. Akamai CASE STUDY
Akamai Mitigates Politically Motivated Hacktivist
Attack on Major US Media Organization
The Situation
A major media company was the target of hacktivists that felt the organization was being INDUSTRY
Media & Entertainment
critical of the Occupy Wall St. movement in the United States. Bent on extracting revenge
and embarrassing the company, the hacktivist group sought to halt the company’s Web
SECURITY SOLUTIONS
operations. With this goal in mind, it launched a large-scale Web-based attack using multiple
• kamai Web Application Firewall
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attack strategies including the Low Orbit Ion Cannon attack tool, SQL Injections, and other
• SiteShield
attack vectors across approximately 20 of the media company’s digital properties. These
attack methods have become common practices for those seeking to take part in a botnet
KEY IMPACTS
attack, and are often associated with one of the world’s largest, most feared computer
hacking groups, Anonymous. •
Stopped over 4 million malicious requests
in 24 hours
Ensured uptime across 19 digital properties
•
The Challenge Prevents attack traffic from reaching the
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Media and entertainment companies have become a key target with the rise of the hacktivist origin server
movement in 2011. Seeking to make political statements, the hacktivists zero in on high-traffic
media sites. Since these types of sites have just recently found themselves a part of this growing
trend, they are often caught off guard to defend themselves against such attacks.
The Goal
The media company needed to meet two requirements to support its objectives:
• revent DDoS attacks: The media company wanted the ability to detect and mitigate
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threats against its Web site as early as possible.
• nsure uninterrupted business: Because the company’s multiple digital properties
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are a key channel for reaching its audience, it was critical to ensure 24x7 site uptime.
Why Akamai
Stopping Attacks at the Edge
Given the organization’s long-standing relationship with Akamai, and the fact that their Web
infrastructure is highly dependent on the Akamai Intelligent Platform, they contacted Akamai’s
team of security experts. Akamai was able to quickly deploy the necessary security solutions
to match the specific attacks that were expected. Later the team identified the threat as a
coordinated, large-scale DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service).
Akamai deployed its Web Application Firewall (WAF) service in multiple locations, cloaking
the attack traffic, and configured custom rules designed to match the specific attacks that
were expected. By detecting and mitigating potential attacks in HTTP and SSL traffic, WAF
addresses such attacks within the Akamai Platform to ensure they never reach the customer’s
origin data centers.
During the 24 hours of the attack Akamai examined 394 million requests, stopping over
4 million malicious requests. As a result, business continued uninterrupted at the media
company, with no disruptions across 19 of its digital properties.
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