How AI-Assisted IoT Botnets Are Driving Retail DDoS Attacks | Steve Winterfeld, Akamai | TFiR Steve Winterfeld, Advisory CISO at Akamai, explains why retail absorbs 84% of commerce DDoS attacks, how Turbo ... By Monika ChauhanAugust 31, 2026 Security
Fine-Tuned vs. Frontier Models: What Really Drives AI Cost | Ari Weil, Akamai | TFiR Ari Weil of Akamai breaks down why copying AI models to solve latency silently inflates infrastructure cost, ... By Monika ChauhanAugust 28, 2026
Why Java Quarterly Updates Break Apps and What to Do Instead | Simon Ritter, Azul | TFiR Simon Ritter of Azul explains why Java quarterly updates containing up to 500 changes create regression risk, ... By Monika ChauhanAugust 27, 2026 Security
What Routine HA Testing Catches Before a Real Outage | Cassius Rhue, SIOS Technology | TFiR Cassius Rhue of SIOS Technology walks through real cases where routine HA testing caught stale data configs, ... By Monika ChauhanAugust 26, 2026 Cloud Native
Why AI Inference at Scale Needs Edge, Not More Cloud | Dr. Robert Blumofe, Akamai | TFiR Akamai CTO Dr. Robert Blumofe explains why centralized infrastructure cannot meet the bandwidth and latency demands of ... By Monika ChauhanAugust 26, 2026 AI Infrastructure
What Actually Slows AI Agents: CPU vs GPU Placement | Jon Alexander, Akamai | TFiR Jon Alexander of Akamai explains why up to 90% of AI agent task execution time happens ... By Monika ChauhanAugust 25, 2026 AI Infrastructure
How to Govern AI Agents That Write Back to Production Data | Mario Moscatiello, Airbyte | TFiR Mario Moscatiello of Airbyte explains why AI agents writing back to systems like Salesforce break traditional data ... By Monika ChauhanAugust 24, 2026 AI Infrastructure
Commerce Bot Traffic: Why Minimizing Friction Creates Maximum Risk | Steve Winterfeld, Akamai | TFiR Advisory CISO Steve Winterfeld explains why commerce faces three times more AI bot traffic than any ... By Monika ChauhanAugust 24, 2026 Security
Who Owns Java Runtime Security in the Enterprise? | Simon Ritter, Azul | TFiR Simon Ritter of Azul explains how a point-in-time Java vulnerability assessment creates a remediation baseline, who owns ... By Monika ChauhanAugust 21, 2026 Security
AI Infrastructure Cost Modeling: What Architects Miss Before Production | Ari Weil, Akamai | TFiR Ari Weil of Akamai explains how physical inference location, cross-zone transfer fees, and internet egress charges at ... By Monika ChauhanAugust 20, 2026