Category: Glossary

DOS Protection, short for Denial-of-Service Protection, is a security measure designed to defend against and mitigate Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. A DoS attack aims to disrupt the availability and functionality of a target system, such as a website, network, or application, by overwhelming it with an excessive amount of traffic or requests.

BOT management is a security measure provided by Application and API Protector to safeguard your website or application against bot attacks. By implementing this feature, you can ensure the utmost security for your application and have the ability to differentiate between legitimate and malicious bots. This enables you to have fine-grained control over bot access […]

A web application firewall (WAF) is a security measure designed to protect web applications from various types of attacks and vulnerabilities. It acts as a filter between the web application and the client, monitoring and analyzing incoming and outgoing HTTP/HTTPS traffic.

Akamai App & API Protector is a single solution that brings together many security technologies including web application firewall, bot mitigation, API security, and DDoS protection. App & API Protector is recognized as the leading attack detection solution, quickly identifying and mitigating threats beyond the traditional firewall to protect entire digital estates from multidimensional attacks. […]

The technique of image optimization enables the transformation of images in real time without requiring image manipulation software. By simply adding a parameter, images can be optimized efficiently, saving time and providing maximum efficiency to meet your needs.

CDN+ provides maximum security, adaptive performance, and real-time optimization for every user across different device types and network conditions, however, they choose to connect with little or NO CODE change.

TTL stands for Time-to-Live and it’s a setting in computer networking that determines how long a packet can remain in the network before being discarded. It helps to prevent packets from circulating endlessly in the network and ensures they are delivered in a timely manner. The TTL value is set by the sender of the […]

HTML5 (Hypertext Markup Language version 5) is the latest version of the HTML standard that is used for creating web pages and applications. It is an update to the previous HTML 4.01 version and includes new features such as video and audio playback, local storage, geolocation, canvas for drawing graphics, and semantic tags for better […]

DNS records are pieces of information stored on a DNS server that map domain names to IP addresses and other types of data associated with a domain name. When you type a domain name into a web browser, your computer sends a request to a DNS server to look up the corresponding IP address. The […]

A DNS query (also known as a DNS request) is a demand for information sent from a user’s computer (DNS client) to a DNS server. In most cases a DNS request is sent, to ask for the IP address associated with a domain name. An attempt to reach a domain is actually a DNS client […]