This is not your average State of the Internet (SOTI) report. You may notice some fundamental differences between this one and our previous publications. That’s because this time we’re cutting through the noise to speak directly to the people on the front lines: the defenders.

We’ve brought together the multiple security research teams within Akamai to share their hard-earned, field-tested knowledge. Several groups of cybersecurity professionals are represented: researchers, operations professionals, product architects, data scientists, and incident responders.