Akamai

"If your firm uses Akamai, know that they can't even be bothered to install a valid HTTPS cert for their own website," tweeted Christopher Soghoian, a technologist whose day job is with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), on Tuesday. He's referring to the digital certificate, which, if it were valid, would confirm when you make an encrypted connection to the website that it's actually connecting to the right place — as opposed to being intercepted by an impostor.

Except it isn't, so it doesn't.

Akamai has released its State of the Internet Report for the first quarter of 2013. It turns out that of the 177 countries monitored by the company, the most attack traffic came from China (34%).

This means China maintains its position as a leader, despite a considerable drop in the volume of attack traffic recorded in the previous quarter.

Being stuck below the security poverty line isn’t about budget, it’s about attitude, motivation, and focusing not simply on basic compliance but rather on your true security goals. Akamai CSO Andy Ellis will share a behind-the-scenes look at how Akamai’s security program evolved through the collapse of the dot-com bubble, avoided being trapped belowthe security poverty line, and developed into one of the most trusted cloud platforms today.