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Articles by Daniel Shugrue
Securing client-facing apps in a hostile, risk-filled 21st century
The digital landscape is exploding with client-facing apps as they become an essential element for businesses to meet consumer expectations, with the Apple Store now offering 1.96 million apps and the Google Play store boasting 2.87 million apps. On top of this, a whopping 148.2 billion mobile, desktop, and web apps were downloaded in 2023. More than were released on Google Play in February 2024 alone.
How Developers Can Help Secure the Digital Fortress
In the days before the internet, background checks were the only things needed to adequately protect an enterprise’s most critical digital assets. Mainframes and their databases resided in dark rooms, and their backup tapes were locked in vaults. The only way data could go missing was if a person walked out with a rather large nine-track tape.
Navigating the Wild: Application Threat Industry Report
Applications have transcended the confines of controlled environments and have ventured “into the wild” beyond the creators’ grasp. While applications within firewalls have been a staple for decades, the proliferation of smartphones ushered in an era where countless apps, driven by platforms like those introduced by Apple and Google, now exist outside these controlled networks.
Web Attacks Today
Web Attacks today are driven by three trends: The Nationalization of attacks, the Industrialization of attacks, and the Monetization of attacks. These trends have contributed to greater frequency of attacks, and both the "dumbing down" of volumetric attacks and the proliferation of sophisticated attacks. So what do I mean by Nationalization of attacks?
Analysis of Black Friday Data Reveals Shift in Attack Vectors
Because Akamai is trusted by thousands of online retailers, and in fact all of the 20 top global eCommerce sites, we see and analyze enormous amounts of attack data during events such as Black Friday. This year we tracked requests coming into dozens of online retailers over 24 hour periods for each of the 5 Fridays leading up to Black Friday.
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