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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 (NASDAQ: AKAM) reported second quarter 2026 revenue of $1.10 billion, up 5% year-over-year, with Security revenue of $604 million (+10%) and Cloud Infrastructure Services (CIS) revenue of $99 million (+39%). Delivery and other cloud applications revenue was $396 million, down 6% year-over-year. GAAP income from operations was $80 million (7% margin), down 47%, while non-GAAP operating income was $271 million (25% margin), down 12%.
GAAP net income was $79 million and GAAP diluted EPS $0.52, both down 23% and 27% respectively; non-GAAP net income was $236 million and non-GAAP diluted EPS $1.59, down 6% and 8%. Adjusted EBITDA was $416 million, down 6%. According to Akamai, year-to-date multi-year CIS contracts total over $2.8 billion, including a new >$600 million, four-year deal with a U.S.-based technology company. The company generated $326 million in operating cash flow (30% of revenue), held $4.616 billion in cash, equivalents and marketable securities, repurchased $410 million of stock, and issued Q3 and full-year 2026 non-GAAP guidance, including revenue of $4.445–$4.530 billion and non-GAAP EPS of $6.40–$7.05.
REX Shares, through its T-REX joint venture with Tuttle Capital Management, launched three new leveraged single-stock ETFs: T-REX 2X Long AKAM Daily Target ETF (Cboe: AKAL), T-REX 2X Long DOCN Daily Target ETF (Cboe: OCNL), and T-REX 2X Long PENG Daily Target ETF (Cboe: PENU).
AKAL, OCNL, and PENU each seek 200% of the daily performance of Akamai Technologies (AKAM), DigitalOcean (DOCN), and Penguin Solutions (PENG), respectively, via derivatives such as swaps. According to REX, these funds target sophisticated traders, involve significant leverage, compounding and derivatives risks, and may lose all invested capital in adverse single-day moves.
Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) released its 2026 State of the Internet security report, the Enterprise AI Usage Risk Report 2026, highlighting how decentralized “shadow AI,” highly active AI power users, and rogue browser extensions are expanding enterprise cyber risk by bypassing traditional perimeter defenses.
The report introduces three AI-native attack vectors—Vibe hacking, CursorJacking, and CometJacking—and notes that almost 75% of AI extensions request high or critical permissions, while 16.3% contain known vulnerabilities. Akamai outlines a five-point CISO roadmap focused on AI power users, eliminating shadow AI, inspecting the interaction layer, vetting extensions, and securing autonomous AI agents.
Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) launched Akamai Workforce Protector (formerly LayerX), an interaction security layer within its existing platform that already secures applications, APIs, and infrastructure. The product focuses on governing AI, SaaS, web, and private app usage directly at the point of interaction.
The solution provides real-time AI governance, secure enterprise browser capabilities, zero-disruption deployment, and real-time data loss prevention, and is natively integrated with Akamai’s global private access solution. According to Akamai, Workforce Protector complements existing SSE, CASB, and DLP tools and leverages its global network for secure, seamless access.
Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) published its latest State of the Internet security report, “Securing the Agentic Storefront: Attacks on Commerce,” showing commerce has become the most targeted industry for cyberattacks amid rising use of autonomous AI tools and agentic commerce.
As of December 2025, 47.9% of all commerce traffic across Akamai’s network consisted of AI bots, driven largely by AI training crawlers, with OpenAI, ByteDance, and Anthropic identified as the three most observed bots. Web attacks on APIs rose 9% year over year, and an Akamai study found 85% of commerce respondents had at least one API-related incident, while only 22% knew which APIs exposed sensitive data. Commerce endured nearly 3 trillion Layer 7 DDoS attacks in 2025, with retail absorbing 84% of that volume.
From November 2025 to April 2026, malware accounted for 56.5% of endpoint threat activity and phishing 37.6%; average daily phishing volumes for commerce customers jumped from 56,600 in February to 134,600 in April. Regionally, bot activity rose modestly in North America and EMEA (7% and 16%), but surged in APAC and LATAM (63% and 48%), with APAC’s travel and loyalty sectors heavily targeted. Akamai recommends mapping API revenue chains, adopting risk-based bot governance, implementing microsegmentation, and aligning cybersecurity with fraud teams using behavioral biometrics and automated account protections.
Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) has been named a Customers’ Choice in the 2026 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for Edge Distribution Platforms. This recognition is based on verified end-user reviews and ratings of Akamai’s edge distribution, security, and content delivery capabilities.
According to Akamai, the company earned an overall rating of 4.7/5 from 85 eligible enterprise reviews, with 71% giving 5 stars, 91% expressing willingness to recommend, and scores of 4.7/5 for both Product Capabilities and Deployment Experience.
Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) has been selected as the strategic security partner for World Wide Technology’s AI Readiness Model for Operational Resilience (ARMOR), a vendor-agnostic AI security framework.
The collaboration embeds Akamai security into NVIDIA BlueField DPUs, aiming to cut ransomware containment times by an average of 21.4%, and up to 32.6% for large enterprises.
Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) has completed its acquisition of secure enterprise browser provider LayerX, previously agreed for approximately US$205 million. LayerX’s browser security platform adds protections and visibility across user interactions with web content, file uploads, prompts, and SaaS apps.
The deal is intended to enhance Akamai’s Zero Trust platform, which includes segmentation, Zero Trust Network Access, and DNS security, and to support workforce security and AI usage governance by leveraging Akamai’s globally distributed network.
Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM) will hold its second quarter 2026 investor conference call on Thursday, August 6, 2026, at 4:30 p.m. ET. The call will cover Q2 2026 financial results and may include forward-looking guidance, with live webcast and phone access plus a two-week replay.
Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) announced a unified agentic security framework for its Bot & Agent Control solutions on June 15, 2026. The framework connects identity, observability, trust, and edge security into a real-time decisioning layer to secure and scale AI-driven interactions and commerce.
Six pillars support the framework: verified identity and human attribution, user-centric authentication, adaptive trust analysis, edge-based enforcement, content monetization and value exchange, and operational visibility and traffic analysis. Ecosystem partners include Visa, Experian, Skyfire, Auth0, Ping Identity, TollBit, and others.