Name: Understanding Emerging Threat Vectors
Start: 2024-06-25T15:00:00Z
End: 2024-06-25T15:00:28.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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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.

As more and more organizations adopt a Zero Trust architecture (ZTA), many initiatives overlook the increased prevalence of API-based access to sensitive application functionality and data. As CISOs move forward in their ZTA journey, how can they extend these principles to their API strategy to ensure security from the network layer to the application layer? 

Join this session to discuss: 

Breaking the kill chain by stopping infection vectors and protecting against lateral movement 
Shielding sensitive data and limiting how APIs interact with data 
Increasing real-time visibility across the business to mitigate threats

From Z to A - Extending Zero Trust to APIs

Edge computing is a method to process your data locally, close to users and devices, which saves bandwidth, reduces latency, and delivers high-speed digital experiences. What’s not to love? This is why increasing numbers of organizations across the globe are starting to explore this latest innovative approach to cloud computing.

Of particular interest to edge computing pioneers are edge-native applications, which you specially design to take advantage of edge computing capabilities and to push experiences and data closer to your users, regardless of where they are located across the globe. But how do you get started? This is the focus of Episode 3: Your Journey to Edge Native, the third installment in our new three-part video series, Building in the Cloud: How to Optimize Cost and Performance.

What to expect in Episode 3:
• Gain a good grounding in the concepts and benefits of edge computing and edge-native applications.
• Receive an introduction to innovative technologies, including HarperDB, which can help you enable edge-native capabilities.

Why watch Episode 3?
• Learn how to apply an edge-native approach to cloud computing to realize low-latency data replication and global-scale services delivery.
• Find out the reasons why now is a great time for you to start exploring edge computing and edge-native applications.
• Discover real-world examples of how and why organizations are adopting edge-native applications.

Available soon to watch on demand:
All three episodes of our video series Building in the Cloud: How to Optimize Cost and Performance
• Episode 1: Deliver Low-Latency Applications and Reduce Costs
• Episode 2: Use Observability to Optimize Costs
• Episode 3: Your Journey to Edge Native

Your Journey to Edge Native

Observability or the ability to monitor, and measure what's happening inside your cloud computing architecture in real time is vital information for every organization. These insights can help you understand how to improve user experiences for your customers, enabling you to increase customer satisfaction, loyalty, and retention.

Examining the different flavors of observability is the focus of Episode 2: Use Observability to Optimize Costs, the second installment in a new three-part video series, Building in the Cloud: How to Optimize Cost and Performance.

What to expect in Episode 2:
• Find out about the benefits of having full visibility into your cloud computing infrastructure.
• Explore how observability solutions can help you to anticipate content demand, and to avoid painful data tradeoffs.

Why watch Episode 2?
• Discover how to optimize your global delivery, while safeguarding your customer experiences.
• Learn how to use observability to help lower your cloud costs.
• Compare and contrast the different types of observability tools, including managed observability services versus more 'build your own' observability options.

Coming next:
• Building in the Cloud: How to Optimize Cost and Performance, Episode 3: Your Journey to Edge Native

Use Observability to Optimize Costs

Organizations, regardless of their size or the industry they serve, are all on a voyage of discovery, where they're investigating what will be the next best iteration of cloud computing to better support the current and future needs of their customers and their own businesses. Like them, you're looking to provide superior customer experiences, which are also cost-efficient, but you're wondering whether it's possible to improve both performance and cost savings.

Here's the good news. You can boost your cloud performance, while also improving your cloud cost savings. The key is adopting a distributed cloud architecture. This is the central theme of Episode 1: Deliver Low-Latency Applications and Reduce Costs, the first installment in a new three-part video series, Building in the Cloud: How to Optimize Cost and Performance.

What to expect in Episode 1:
• Learn more about the benefits of reducing latency and optimizing costs through distributed cloud architectures.
• Find out the reasons why to run your cloud applications and workloads as close as possible to your customers and their devices

Why watch Episode 1?
• The importance of minimizing latency to deliver consistently reliable customer experience across the globe.
• How to keep egress costs while continuing to expand your worldwide business
• Real-world examples of how to successfully achieve better cloud computing resource distribution and cost efficiency.

Coming next:
• Building in the Cloud: How to Optimize Cost and Performance, Episode 2: Use Observability to Optimize Costs

Deliver Low Latency Applications and Reduce Costs

If you’ve been wanting to double down on your API security strategy, now is the perfect time. Learn how you can locate legacy and undocumented APIs, monitor traffic to eliminate vulnerabilities, and prevent attacks in real-time. We'll show you how to integrate robust security tests, uncover data policy violations, and build security into your API development process. 

With Akamai API Security’s new flexible deployment options, extended intelligence across API traffic locations, and expanded suite of integrations as part of our acquisition of Noname security, you can protect your API environment across any platform. 

Don't miss this chance to enhance your API security and take advantage of Akamai’s new, advanced API protections for your organization.

Ep. 7 - Doubling Down on API Security

Last year, nearly one-third of web attacks targeted APIs. Join us for a live webinar as we reveal the findings from our latest State of the Internet (SOTI) report, 'Lurking in the Shadows: Attack Trends Shine Light on API Threats', and learn:

•        The latest API attack techniques
•        Regional trends
•        Real-world lessons
•        Advice around security implementations and active threats

State of the Internet: API Security

In an era where digital threats are rapidly evolving, the European Union has responded with two pivotal regulations: the NIS2 Directive and the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). These frameworks are not merely updates; they are comprehensive overhauls designed to secure the EU's digital infrastructure across all critical sectors and financial entities. NIS2 extends its reach to ensure uniform cybersecurity across the EU, while DORA establishes rigorous resilience requirements for the financial sector, affecting every organization that conducts financial operations in Europe.

This session will explore the sweeping impacts of these regulations and illustrate how compliance is not just a legal obligation but a crucial strategic advantage. The Akamai Guardicore Platform plays a vital role here, providing the sophisticated tools needed to meet these regulations—through advanced segmentation, enhanced monitoring, and robust defense mechanisms against cyber threats.

During the session, you will:
- Understand the extensive impact and delve into how NIS2 and DORA reshape the cybersecurity landscape for a wide range of organizations.
- Learn how Akamai Guardicore Platform specifically aids in adhering to these critical regulations.
- Explore actionable strategies to overcome the complexities of compliance.

This webinar is designed to not only inform but also equip you with the necessary tools to navigate this new regulatory environment successfully.

How to Prepare for the Wide-Ranging Effects of NIS2 & DORA

APIs are too often rushed into production without proper testing. This creates conflict between the economic demand for new business services and the security requirements to protect these new services. Plus, developers and DevOps teams are the ones who often perform API security testing since it is very technical and has a steep learning curve. 

Join this webinar to learn how testing your APIs doesn’t have to be a roadblock to your organization. With the right mindset and tools, you can reduce the cost of fixing security vulnerabilities, continue to deliver new functionality at breakneck speeds, and improve the security posture of your APIs.

Ep. 6 - Monitor Right & Shift Left: Reshaping API security with Advanced Testing

Enterprises are seeking innovative and efficient ways to manage their distributed computing needs. The collaboration between HarperDB and Akamai Connected Cloud is setting a benchmark in this space, providing a scalable architecture optimized for distributed cloud computing. Reflecting on Gartner's forecast, by 2025, a significant 75% of enterprise-generated data will be processed at the edge, away from traditional data centers, underscoring the critical need for robust edge computing capabilities. This upcoming webinar will delve into strategies for embracing this shift, enhancing cloud deployment efficiencies, and capitalizing on the power of edge computing to secure a competitive edge in today's dynamic technology landscape.

You will learn how to: 

● Gain insights into optimizing cloud costs & supporting data sovereignty
● Developing, and delivering low-latency workload
● Avoid vendor lock-in, while embracing multi cloud architectures. 

Join us as we delve into the synergistic partnership between HarperDB and Akamai Connected Cloud, exploring the integration's potential to revolutionize cloud computing with a focus on massive scalability, flexibility, and cloud portability. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from the experts.

The Competitive Edge: Optimizing Cloud Efficiency with HarperDB & Akamai

As risk to APIs grows and the attack surface expands with every new API, the conversation around API Security is more critical than ever. The 2024 API Security State of the Internet (SOTI) report showcases new insights into the attacks targeting APIs, which constitute 29% of web attacks over the past year.
Join guest speaker, Forrester Principal Analyst Sandy Carielli and Giora Engel, VP of API Security at Akamai as they deep dive into the types of attacks, extending beyond the OWASP API Security Top 10, and their implications across different industries and regions.
Is this webinar you will:
Understand real-world API Security threats
Identify impactful API attack trends
Gain visibility into the life of an API
Discover the principles of effective API security
Our experts will guide you through the necessary steps to demystifying threats facing your API landscape and fortifying your security posture without having to revise your existing infrastructure. Register now.

Around the World with APIs: Understand API Attacks Anywhere

Despite the complexity of algorithms and advanced security protocols, API security often fails to consider the sophisticated intersection of AI and API security. We will bridge this gap in our upcoming episode, ""Rise of AI Assisted API Attacks,"" by highlighting how emerging AI technologies can be harnessed to enhance protection against these modern threats.

This session will guide attendees through the latest trends in AI-driven attacks, how attackers are using AI to attack APIs, and tips and tricks from our Threat hunting team on how they use automation to combat these fast growing threats.

Ep. 5 - Rise of AI Assisted API Attacks

Spreading attack surfaces and an evolving threat landscape make stopping ransomware and meeting compliance mandates increasingly difficult. Zero Trust Security, often unattainable, is addressed by the Akamai Guardicore Platform, a breakthrough in practical, robust Zero Trust security. 

In this webinar, guest speaker David Holmes, Principal Analyst at Forrester, will provide insights on Zero Trust, discussing the shift from implicit to explicit trust policies. He will explore the differences between VPNs and ZTNA, and how microsegmentation can ring-fence resources to prevent ransomware.

"The Future is Now" with the Akamai Guardicore Platform. We will explore how this platform accelerates Zero Trust projects, adapting quickly to non-stop threats and driving business benefits. This session will highlight how our latest enhancements harness the power of AI to transform security management into a more streamlined process.

Akamai Guardicore Platform redefines what’s possible in cybersecurity. This webinar is not just an introduction and demonstration of a new platform from Akamai—it is an invitation to witness a paradigm shift in how cybersecurity supports business resilience and innovation.

Webinar Highlights:
- Single Console Management: Streamline your cybersecurity with our single-console approach for comprehensive visibility and seamless north/south and east/west policy enforcement across all environments
- Zero Trust Deployment with a Single Agent: Explore our single-agent or agentless options for deploying Zero Trust, minimizing system impact and maximizing coverage
- AI-Driven Operational Excellence: See how AI powers our platform, enhancing everything from network log analysis to asset labeling and vulnerability assessments
- Adherence to Zero Trust Principles: See how the Akamai Guardicore Platform embeds strict Zero Trust principles, integrating advanced features like multi factor Segmentation and DNS firewalls for robust monitoring and control
- LIVE Demo

New Era, New Tools: The Future of Zero Trust Security

In rethinking their current cloud architecture, organizations see distributed cloud computing as the way to provide optimal experiences for their global customers. As a developer, you want to be able to bring your applications and workloads closer to your users, regardless of their location. So, how popular is distributed cloud computing and how are builders using and benefiting from this approach?

The third installment in a new three-part video series, Building in the Cloud: The Shift to Cloud Native, answers these questions. Episode 3: Moving to a Distributed Cloud Approach brings together third-party analyst research with real-world use cases from Akamai’s cloud engineering team.

What to expect in Episode 3:
• Find out the latest data on distributed cloud computing adoption by developers around the world
• Identify the key benefits of a distributed cloud approach including lower costs, greater flexibility, scalability, and security, and increased value to customers.

Why watch Episode 3?
• Discover the reasons why more global organizations and developers are moving to a distributed cloud approach
• Learn about real-world use cases for distributed cloud computing across industries and departments
• Explore why organizations and developers are running into limitations with their current centralized cloud infrastructure

Available soon to watch on-demand:
All three episodes of our video series Building in the Cloud: The Shift to Cloud Native
• Episode 1: The Shift to Cloud Native
• Episode 2: How to Build for Portability
• Episode 3: Moving to a Distributed Cloud Approach

Moving to a Distributed Cloud Approach

Think your site isn't vulnerable to web scraping attacks? Think again. Malicious actors are eager to compromise your webpage scripts to gain access to customer credentials or credit card information. According to Akamai research, 50% of commerce customers use 3rd party scripts, which can be vulnerable to Magecart style attacks. In this session, we'll discuss the latest PCI DSS 4.0 requirements for script protection so brands can better identify, monitor and manage suspicious and malicious script behavior.

Commerce Chats: Make a Fast Break Toward PCI Script Compliance

In today's digital-first world, the speed and security of visual content delivery can make or break customer experience. With one in four visitors abandoning a website if it takes more than four seconds to load, optimising visual assets such as images and videos for omnichannel delivery becomes a key differentiator. Join us for a fireside chat between two leading product innovators from Scaleflex and Akamai, as we dive into the complexities and solutions around managing, optimising, and securely delivering product assets across multiple channels such as online stores and marketing channels.

Key Takeaways:

- Learn how to streamline your visual content workflow at scale
- Leveraging AI to maximise the ROI of each visual asset 
- Optimise Media for Omnichannel Delivery

Join us as we unlock the secrets to preparing your visual assets for the dynamic demands of today's omnichannel landscape. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from the experts and network with peers facing similar challenges in the e-commerce industry. 

Speakers:
- John Bradshaw, Director of Cloud Computing Technology and Strategy EMEA, Akamai
- Emil Novakov, Co-Founder & CEO, Scaleflex

Fast and Secure Omnichannel Delivery of Media Assets with Scaleflex

By taking advantage of portability and open-source tools, cloud-native development enables developers to make decisions on where to deploy and move their workloads to maximize performance and cost-efficiency. Portability gives you the ability to migrate your applications, workloads, data, and other resources to the cloud environment or cloud provider of your choice.

The second installment in a new three-part video series, Building in the Cloud: The Shift to Cloud Native, is about expanding your knowledge of the key technologies involved in creating portable workloads, notably Kubernetes, an open-source platform to run applications in containers. In Episode 2: How to Build for Portability, Akamai’s cloud engineering team explains how to use open-source tools and details best practices.

What to expect in Episode 2:
• Cement your understanding of Kubernetes and Knative, and the relationship between the two technologies
• Get to grips with the components of a Kubernetes cluster, such as the ingress controller, object storage, event streaming, and observability and monitoring

Why watch Episode 2?
• Discover more about the Knative Serving and Knative Eventing components, and the use of brokers and triggers
• Learn about best practices and which open-source tools to use when building out your portable infrastructure
• Gain the knowledge and confidence to deploy your first Kubernetes cluster

Coming next:
• Building in the Cloud: The Shift to Cloud Native, Episode 3: Moving to a Distributed Cloud Approach

How to Build for Portability

While threat actors constantly adapt and evolve their techniques, the tactics they employ remain limited and unchanging. A CISO with an understanding of modern attack trends can hone their focus on enduring tactics, rather than ever-changing techniques, to reverse the adversarial advantage and enable their business to better anticipate and defend against threat actors. 
Join this session to: 
• Examine modern attack trends and real-world individual attacks 
• Understand the motives of threat actors to craft effective security protocols and playbooks 
• Learn how to increase visibility to make better informed decisions

Understanding Emerging Threat Vectors

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