# Eknix — Web security & performance for the enterprise

Enterprise web security and performance, delivered by certified experts. We help fintech, e-commerce, and travel platforms stay fast, resilient, and protected.

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## Solutions

- [Web Application Security](https://www.eknix.com/solutions/web-application-security/): Akamai WAF and bot management, deployed and operated by certified engineers. 24/7 monitoring, full OWASP Top 10 coverage, and sub-5-minute rule deployment including zero-day patches.
- [Performance & CDN](https://www.eknix.com/solutions/performance-cdn/): Akamai CDN deployment and operations for enterprise platforms. Edge caching, EdgeWorkers, and global performance tuning — configured to your traffic patterns by certified engineers.
- [China CDN](https://www.eknix.com/solutions/china-cdn/)
- [DDoS Protection](https://www.eknix.com/solutions/ddos-protection/): Always-on DDoS mitigation at the Akamai edge. Eknix deploys and manages scrubbing, rate limiting, and adaptive traffic shaping to absorb volumetric and application-layer attacks.
- [API Security](https://www.eknix.com/solutions/api-security/): API security at the edge — discovery, monitoring, and protection for REST and GraphQL APIs. Eknix deploys Akamai API Security to stop shadow APIs, injection attacks, and business logic abuse.
- [Microsegmentation](https://www.eknix.com/solutions/microsegmentation/): Zero Trust microsegmentation with Akamai Guardicore. Contain lateral movement, enforce least-privilege access, and protect hybrid cloud environments — operated by certified engineers.
- [Cloud Infrastructure](https://www.eknix.com/solutions/cloud-infrastructure/): Cloud infrastructure design and operations for performance-critical platforms. Eknix builds resilient, security-first environments on Akamai Connected Cloud — built to scale under load.
- [Zero Trust & Access](https://www.eknix.com/solutions/zero-trust-access/)
- [Managed Services](https://www.eknix.com/solutions/managed-services/)


## Industries

- [Fintech & Banking](https://www.eknix.com/industries/fintech-banking/): Web security and performance for fintech platforms and banks. PCI-DSS-compliant edge security, API protection, and 24/7 incident response from Akamai-certified engineers.
- [E-commerce & Retail](https://www.eknix.com/industries/ecommerce-retail/): Edge performance and security for e-commerce. Eknix protects checkout flows, accelerates product pages, and eliminates bot-driven inventory abuse — keeping conversions high at peak load.
- [Travel & Hospitality](https://www.eknix.com/industries/travel-hospitality/): CDN and security for travel platforms. GDS-aware edge caching cuts search latency, bot management blocks mobile fare scrapers, and booking flow protection keeps checkout uptime high.


## Case Studies

- [Digital bank: securing an API estate they didn't know they had](https://www.eknix.com/case-studies/digital-bank-api-security/): How Eknix deployed Akamai's full security stack for a European digital bank — discovering 47% more APIs than documented, closing six unauthenticated endpoints, and stopping credential stuffing and account takeover.
- [Hotel group: shutting down credential stuffing on a loyalty programme](https://www.eknix.com/case-studies/hotel-loyalty-credential-stuffing/): How Eknix stopped a credential stuffing campaign against a hotel group's loyalty programme — eliminating account takeovers that standard rate limiting had never caught.
- [European challenger bank: PCI DSS at the edge, zero outages in two years](https://www.eknix.com/case-studies/european-challenger-bank/): How a European challenger bank achieved PCI DSS compliance at the Akamai edge with Eknix — zero outages across two years of live operation.
- [Fashion retailer: stopping SMS pumping before it became a $500k problem](https://www.eknix.com/case-studies/fashion-retailer-sms-fraud/): How Eknix stopped SMS pumping on a fashion retailer's phone login endpoint — eliminating fraudulent SMS triggers entirely and preventing repeat incidents within 48 hours.
- [Global retailer: Black Friday-ready in 90 days](https://www.eknix.com/case-studies/global-retailer-peak-season/): How Eknix prepared a global retailer for peak season in 90 days — delivering Black Friday-ready edge security and CDN performance without disrupting live trading.
- [Regional airline: cutting search latency in half, globally](https://www.eknix.com/case-studies/regional-airline-search-latency/): How Eknix cut flight search latency in half for a regional airline with GDS-aware edge caching — improving conversion on high-intent search traffic globally.


## Recent Blog Posts

- [Why Security and Performance Aren't a Trade-off Anymore](https://www.eknix.com/blog/security-performance-tradeoff/) (2026-07-14): The belief that turning on security slows the site is a holdover from the era when security was a box in your data center. At the edge in 2026, the same layer that inspects for attacks also terminates TLS, offloads your origin, and serves cached content, so the security control and the performance control are the same control. Here is where the myth came from, how the edge collapsed the two into one system, the cases where bad security genuinely does slow you down, and the numbers that prove it either way.
- [Inference at the Edge: Why Latency-Sensitive AI Belongs Closer to Your Users](https://www.eknix.com/blog/inference-at-the-edge/) (2026-07-06): Inference is now roughly two-thirds of all AI compute, and for real-time work (agents, personalization, fraud scoring, RAG), round-tripping every token to one distant hyperscaler region is latency your users feel. Here is why the edge is becoming an inference platform, what actually belongs there, and what to measure before you move a workload.
- [Build vs. Buy vs. Partner: The Real Decision for Enterprise Web Security](https://www.eknix.com/blog/build-vs-buy-vs-partner/) (2026-06-29): The enterprise security decision is usually framed as build vs. buy. That binary leaves out the option most companies end up in by accident: someone else's tool, half-operated. Here's an honest, vendor-neutral framework for choosing between an in-house SOC, a licensed-and-self-run platform, and an operated partner, updated for the 2026 math of the talent gap, the AI SOC, hyper-volumetric DDoS, and accountability rules you can't outsource.
- [The Hidden Cost of a Slow Checkout: A Performance Audit Framework](https://www.eknix.com/blog/checkout-performance-audit/) (2026-06-25): Your checkout works. That's exactly why nobody measures it. Here's a repeatable framework to audit checkout performance step by step, put a revenue figure on every slow second, and turn 'the site feels slow' into a prioritized fix list. Updated for INP-era Core Web Vitals and the arrival of agent-led checkout in 2026.
- [When Your Next Customer Is an AI Agent: Preparing Your Stack for Agentic Shopping](https://www.eknix.com/blog/agentic-commerce-2026/) (2026-06-22): AI agents now do the shopping, and a benign one looks almost identical to fraud. Half a percentage point separates them. Here is why the old bot binary broke in 2026, and how to make your stack ready to serve, verify and win agent traffic instead of blocking it.
- [CDN Configuration Mistakes That Silently Slow Your Site](https://www.eknix.com/blog/cdn-configuration-mistakes/) (2026-06-18): A green CDN dashboard hides the metric that decides whether your edge is working: cache-hit ratio by content type. Here are the cache-key, TTL, Vary and origin-shield mistakes that quietly inflate origin load and latency, and why AI crawlers make them more expensive in 2026.
- [How Travel Booking Platforms Survive Flash Sales Without Downtime](https://www.eknix.com/blog/travel-flash-sales/) (2026-06-15): A flash sale is a self-inflicted traffic spike that behaves like an attack: search storms, bot pile-ons, and bottlenecks autoscaling can't reach. Here is the architecture that keeps booking platforms selling, and the runbook to have ready before the fare drops.
- [Account Takeover Attacks Are Rising: Your 2026 Defence Checklist](https://www.eknix.com/blog/account-takeover-2026/) (2026-06-11): Credential stuffing now rides residential broadband, phishing kits proxy your MFA, and infostealers arrive with a valid session cookie. Here is the layered defence checklist that still holds in 2026, and a 30-day plan to get there.
- [Core Web Vitals for Fintech: Compliance Isn't the Only Reason to Care](https://www.eknix.com/blog/core-web-vitals-fintech/) (2026-06-05): Fintech teams file Core Web Vitals under SEO and compliance. The more expensive story is what slow, unstable pages do to trust, conversion, and the high-value customers you never see leave.
- [Web Application Firewall: Why Default Rules Aren't Enough for Fintech](https://www.eknix.com/blog/waf-fintech/) (2026-06-02): A WAF on default rules is better than no WAF, and Akamai's Adaptive Security Engine takes it further. But for fintech platforms handling payment flows, regulated data, targeted attacks, and DORA's four-hour reporting clock, neither closes the business-logic gap. Here's what tuning actually involves in 2026.
- [DDoS Protection for Travel Platforms: Lessons from Peak Booking Season](https://www.eknix.com/blog/ddos-travel-platforms/) (2026-05-29): Travel platforms face a DDoS problem that standard protection wasn't built for: traffic spikes that look like attacks but aren't, and attacks timed to look like traffic spikes. Here's what we've learned from operating through peak booking season.
- [API Security in Ecommerce: What CTOs Get Wrong](https://www.eknix.com/blog/api-security-ecommerce/) (2026-05-26): Most ecommerce security programmes have stronger frontend defences than API defences, and attackers know it. This post covers the API security gaps we keep finding in production, and what's changing now that AI agents are doing the shopping.
- [How Page Latency Kills Ecommerce Revenue in 2026 (And How to Fix It)](https://www.eknix.com/blog/latency-ecommerce-revenue/) (2026-05-22): The relationship between page load time and ecommerce revenue is well-documented and consistent. This post covers the latest 2026 data, the real causes of latency, and what a performance-optimised stack actually looks like.
- [How Bot Attacks Drain Fintech Revenue — And How to Stop Them](https://www.eknix.com/blog/bot-attacks-fintech/) (2026-05-19): Bot attacks on fintech platforms go far beyond downtime — they drain revenue through credential stuffing, card testing, and account takeover. Here's what the damage actually looks like, and how layered bot management stops it.
- [Why most microsegmentation projects stall — and how to avoid it](https://www.eknix.com/blog/microsegmentation-stalls/) (2026-04-22): Three failure modes that stall microsegmentation projects in regulated environments — and the patterns that get teams from observation mode to enforced policies in weeks, not months.