Akamai Technologies, Inc. reports developments in cybersecurity, cloud computing, and content delivery for enterprises, public-sector customers, media operators, and digital businesses. The company describes its business through Security, Delivery and other cloud applications, and Cloud Infrastructure Services, including Akamai Cloud and edge-based infrastructure.
Recurring updates include quarterly financial results, API security capabilities such as Security Posture Center and code-to-runtime mapping, brand-impersonation protection through Akamai Brand Guardian, threat research from State of the Internet reports, and partner or contract activity involving compute, streaming analytics, application delivery, and public-sector procurement.
Akamai (AKAM) released a cybersecurity research report finding that online scams surpassed traditional phishing for the first time in Q1 2026. Scam detections approximately doubled from ~3.2 million to ~6.4 million. Average phishing attack lifespan fell from 48 days in Q4 2025 to 22 days in Q2 2026.
High- and critical-risk activity represented 26.6% of recorded login attempts. Nearly 70% of phishing threats impersonated high technology, financial services and commerce brands. Akamai recommends behavioral inspection throughout the account lifecycle and microsegmentation, which separates network systems to restrict movement between them.
Akamai (Nasdaq: AKAM) introduced Akamai Inference and Akamai Agent Sandbox to add managed AI model serving and isolated agent execution to Akamai Cloud. Both products are available in beta, with serverless deployment options included in the Inference beta. The underlying cloud infrastructure has already secured multiyear contracts collectively worth more than $14 billion.
Akamai also expanded its dedicated GPU fleet with NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra clusters and is preparing its data centers to support NVIDIA Vera Rubin in 2027. Inference offers managed access to open-weight and custom models, while Agent Sandbox separates agent-generated code from the agent’s runtime.
Akamai (AKAM) announced new customer adoption of its cloud computing services, spanning enterprise software, artificial intelligence and digital media workloads. Software and software-as-a-service companies represented the overwhelming majority of new customers, while Asia-Pacific and Japan and Europe, the Middle East and Africa accounted for most additions.
Customer commitments include NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPU deployments for AI testing and compute pilots, a logistics technology provider migrating AI warehouse workloads, and a developer platform moving its core architecture. Other customers selected cloud services for streaming and media processing, while a European healthcare research institution is deploying storage and disaster recovery infrastructure.
Akamai (Nasdaq: AKAM) was named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape assessment of worldwide web application and API protection platforms. The September 2026 assessment highlighted its broad telemetry base, runtime protection for AI adopters and layered AI security strategy. The assessment cited App & API Protector's capabilities for defending web applications and interfaces. Akamai said this was its second Leader recognition.
Akamai Technologies (AKAM) will hold its third-quarter 2026 investor conference call on November 5, 2026, at 4:30 p.m. ET.
The call will cover financial results and may include management’s forward-looking financial guidance. A live webcast will be available on Akamai’s Investor Relations page, with a telephone replay available for two weeks afterward and an archived webcast on its website.
Akamai (AKAM) has added SoftServe to its Partner Connect program to offer cloud and AI services to enterprise customers.
SoftServe’s offerings include cloud strategy support, custom-built language models and AI inference services designed for distributed GPU networks. The collaboration also includes AI consulting, digital modernization and managed services for customers in high tech, healthcare, financial services, industrial and manufacturing. Akamai and SoftServe plan to exhibit at NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026 from October 20 to 22.
Akamai (AKAM) released a new State of the Internet Security report outlining how agentic AI is reshaping enterprise cyber risk.
The report for CISOs argues that security must shift from human identity management to behavioral governance over autonomous nonhuman agents. Findings include that more than 40% of enterprise users have AI-powered browser extensions, 25% of which alter permissions within 12 months, and over 6% of enterprise chatbot conversations contain sensitive data, with 47% occurring via unmonitored personal accounts. The report highlights a visibility gap around Model Context Protocol exposure, increased exploit discovery by AI models, and the “synthetic customer,” and recommends adaptive edge governance, tighter browser controls, GEO-focused brand protection, and matching AI autonomy to verifiability.
Akamai (AKAM) announced an expanded technology collaboration with MuleSoft that unifies Akamai API Security runtime intelligence with MuleSoft’s Agent Fabric governance framework.
The bidirectional integration syncs API specifications and environment data, surfaces hidden API and MCP server traffic, and feeds behavioral analytics and threat scores into MuleSoft’s control plane. More than 20 joint customers already use the integration, which is currently available, and Akamai plans further updates in the second half of 2026.
Akamai (AKAM) announced that UK broadcaster ITV used its TrafficPeak solution, powered by Hydrolix and running on Akamai Cloud, to support live streaming for World Cup 2026 on the ITVX platform.
Subsecond log ingestion removed prior 5–15 minute telemetry delays, giving ITV real-time observability across its multi-CDN environment to quickly pinpoint network bottlenecks, distinguish ISP issues from core platform health, and protect ad revenues and exclusive rights. TrafficPeak operated as a managed service on containerized Kubernetes clusters on Akamai’s global compute footprint, which the companies said reduced operational complexity and costs compared with some legacy tools. The tournament generated more than 200 million streams on ITVX, with the England vs. Norway match reaching nearly 5 million concurrent streams.
Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) announced a strategic alliance with Deloitte Canada to help organizations build platform-based cyber resilience against AI-accelerated threats. The partnership combines Deloitte’s cybersecurity advisory and managed services with the Akamai Application Protection Platform, including Guardicore Segmentation, App & API Protector, Prolexic, and Akamai API Security.
According to Akamai, the alliance aims to reduce tool sprawl, simplify security architectures, and move customers from reactive patching to proactive, platform-based resilience. Deloitte will guide end-to-end strategy, architecture, and implementation, initially focusing on organizations across North America.