# Eknix > Eknix is a certified Akamai partner delivering web security and performance for regulated enterprises. Senior-led, vendor-honest, and built to operate - not just deploy and disappear. Eknix helps fintech, e-commerce, and travel platforms stay fast, resilient, and protected on the web. Every engagement is led by a certified architect with hands-on production experience. Eknix holds deep Akamai certifications across App & API Protector, Bot Manager, Guardicore Segmentation, Connected Cloud, EdgeWorkers, and DDoS Protection. Coverage across EMEA and North America, with 24/7 expert operations. Legal name: EKNIX LTD Website: https://www.eknix.com Contact: hello@eknix.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/eknix-ltd/ X: https://x.com/eknixltd GitHub: https://github.com/eknix/ ## Solutions - [Web Application Security](https://www.eknix.com/solutions/web-application-security/): Akamai WAF and bot management deployed and operated by certified engineers. Full OWASP Top 10 coverage, sub-5-minute rule deployment including zero-day patches, 24/7 expert monitoring. - [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 specific traffic patterns. - [API Security](https://www.eknix.com/solutions/api-security/): API security at the edge - discovery, monitoring, and protection for REST and GraphQL APIs. Stops shadow APIs, injection attacks, and business logic abuse. - [Microsegmentation](https://www.eknix.com/solutions/microsegmentation/): Zero Trust microsegmentation with Akamai Guardicore. Contains lateral movement, enforces least-privilege access, protects hybrid cloud environments. - [DDoS Protection](https://www.eknix.com/solutions/ddos-protection/): Always-on DDoS mitigation at the Akamai edge. Scrubbing, rate limiting, and adaptive traffic shaping to absorb volumetric and application-layer attacks. - [Cloud Infrastructure](https://www.eknix.com/solutions/cloud-infrastructure/): Cloud infrastructure design and operations on Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode). 33 global data centre regions, 40 Gbps network throughput per node, 99.99% SLA. ## Industries - [Fintech & Banking](https://www.eknix.com/industries/fintech-banking/): PCI DSS-compliant edge security, API protection, fraud-aware bot defence, and 24/7 incident response for fintech platforms and banks. - [E-commerce & Retail](https://www.eknix.com/industries/ecommerce-retail/): Edge performance and security for e-commerce. Checkout flow protection, product page acceleration, bot-driven inventory abuse prevention. - [Travel & Hospitality](https://www.eknix.com/industries/travel-hospitality/): GDS-aware edge caching, booking flow protection, and mobile bot reduction for travel platforms. Sub-250ms search response times globally. ## Case Studies - [Global retailer: Black Friday-ready in 90 days](https://www.eknix.com/case-studies/global-retailer-peak-season/): Rearchitected a top-100 global retailer's CDN for peak season in 90 days without disrupting live trading. - [European challenger bank: PCI DSS at the edge, zero outages](https://www.eknix.com/case-studies/european-challenger-bank/): Replatformed a high-growth challenger bank onto Akamai with full PCI DSS compliance, zero downtime, and 4x faster page loads. - [Regional airline: search latency halved](https://www.eknix.com/case-studies/regional-airline-search-latency/): Cut flight search latency in half for a regional airline with GDS-aware edge caching, achieving sub-220ms response times globally. - [Fashion retailer: stopping SMS pumping fraud](https://www.eknix.com/case-studies/fashion-retailer-sms-fraud/): Bot Manager Premier eliminated fraudulent SMS triggers on a phone login endpoint entirely within 48 hours, stopping 18,000-per-incident losses. - [Hotel group: shutting down credential stuffing on a loyalty programme](https://www.eknix.com/case-studies/hotel-loyalty-credential-stuffing/): Stopped a credential stuffing campaign draining hotel points via airline partner transfers - 1,400 accounts compromised before detection, zero after Bot Manager Premier deployment. - [Digital bank: securing an API estate they didn't know they had](https://www.eknix.com/case-studies/digital-bank-api-security/): Deployed the full Akamai security stack for a European digital bank - API Security, AAP, Bot Manager Premier, and Account Protector - discovering 47% more APIs than documented and stopping credential stuffing and account takeover entirely. ## Blog - [The 31 Tbps Era: What Record-Breaking Botnets Mean for Your DDoS Posture](https://www.eknix.com/blog/hyper-volumetric-ddos-2026/): The largest DDoS attack ever recorded peaked at 31.4 Tbps and was over in 35 seconds. Nobody on either side touched a keyboard. Records grew 5.6x in fourteen months, the average Radware customer now absorbs 139 network-layer attacks a day, and the March 2026 takedown of the botnet behind the record was answered by a successor within a day. If your mitigation plan assumes minutes of human reaction time, it is built for an attack shape that no longer exists. - [20,000 Searches Per Ticket Sold. Five Years of Litigation Proved $2,457.72 of Harm.](https://www.eknix.com/blog/fare-scraping-api-abuse/): Travel sites run 49% bad bot traffic, look-to-book has reached 20,000 searches per ticket, and one calendar query can trigger 450 AirShopping requests while the scraper behind it pays a sixth of a cent. Ryanair sued and proved $2,457.72 of harm, too little to win. Blocking has its own price. Here is the third option, with the numbers to justify it internally. - [One in Forty 'Trusted' Bots Is an Impostor. Your Allow-List Lets It Right In.](https://www.eknix.com/blog/ai-agent-verification/): Roughly 2.4% of traffic claiming to be PerplexityBot is fake, and 16.4 million requests wore Meta's agent name in two months. If your bot policy trusts user-agent strings, you are admitting attackers by name. Here is the check a spoofed bot cannot pass, and a 30-day plan to rebuild your allow-list around it. - [Why Security and Performance Aren't a Trade-off Anymore](https://www.eknix.com/blog/security-performance-tradeoff/): 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/): 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/): 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. 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/): 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/): 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/): A green CDN dashboard hides the metric that decides whether your edge is working: cache-hit ratio by content type. 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/): 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/): Why IP blocklists, CAPTCHA and SMS codes stopped working, and the layered defence that replaces them - passkeys, adaptive MFA, device intelligence, and account protection at the edge. - [Core Web Vitals for Fintech: Compliance Isn't the Only Reason to Care](https://www.eknix.com/blog/core-web-vitals-fintech/): What LCP, INP, and CLS actually measure, why financial platforms fail them, and the trust and revenue lost long before Google docks your ranking. - [Web Application Firewall: Why Default Rules Aren't Enough for Fintech](https://www.eknix.com/blog/waf-fintech/): What out-of-the-box WAF configuration and AI-based self-tuning miss for fintech platforms - business-logic gaps, DORA compliance, and what tuning actually involves in 2026. - [DDoS Protection for Travel Platforms: Lessons from Peak Booking Season](https://www.eknix.com/blog/ddos-travel-platforms/): Travel platforms face a DDoS problem standard protection wasn't built for - traffic spikes that look like attacks and attacks timed to look like spikes. Lessons from operating through peak booking season. - [API Security in Ecommerce: What CTOs Get Wrong](https://www.eknix.com/blog/api-security-ecommerce/): The API security gaps that keep appearing in production ecommerce environments - shadow APIs, broken object-level authorisation, and what changes 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/): The latest 2026 data on the latency-revenue relationship, including the Shopify April 2026 platform study - plus the real causes of slow pages 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/): Credential stuffing, card testing, and account takeover - how modern bot attacks drain fintech revenue and what layered bot management does about it. - [Why Most Microsegmentation Projects Stall](https://www.eknix.com/blog/microsegmentation-stalls/): Three failure modes that stall microsegmentation in regulated environments and the patterns that get teams to enforced policies in weeks, not months. - [The CDN Math That Actually Matters for E-commerce](https://www.eknix.com/blog/cdn-math-ecommerce/): The four CDN metrics that move the needle for e-commerce revenue - cache hit ratio, P75 TTFB, origin egress cost, and real-user Core Web Vitals. - [Bot Management Is a Tuning Practice, Not a Checkbox](https://www.eknix.com/blog/bot-management-tuning/): Why generic bot defences fail in production and what continuous tuning actually looks like. - [Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Eknix](https://www.eknix.com/blog/christmas-2025/): Seasonal greetings from the Eknix team - wishing clients and partners a restful Christmas and a new year with 100% uptime where it counts. - [How CDN Node Mapping Actually Works](https://www.eknix.com/blog/cdn-node-mapping/): Anycast vs GeoDNS - how a domain name gets mapped to one of thousands of CDN nodes worldwide, and why the two routing approaches solve the problem in fundamentally different ways. - [Is Google reCAPTCHA a DDoS Defence? The Cost Math Says No](https://www.eknix.com/blog/recaptcha-ddos-cost/): Using reCAPTCHA to absorb DDoS traffic sounds pragmatic until you run the numbers - at 25,000 requests per second, you're paying $90,000 per hour to Google. - [Do You Know How Your Customers Experience Your Site? Or Just Where They Go?](https://www.eknix.com/blog/akamai-mpulse-real-user-monitoring/): Google Analytics shows where users go; Akamai mPulse shows what they experienced - DNS, TCP, TLS, TTFB and page load segmented by geography, device, and page group. - [Is Your Website Ready for the Holiday Rush?](https://www.eknix.com/blog/holiday-peak-readiness/): 11.11, Black Friday, Christmas, New Year - four predictable traffic peaks exposing the same two gaps every year: security posture and edge performance. - [Happy New Year and Merry Christmas from Eknix](https://www.eknix.com/blog/christmas-2024/): Seasonal greetings from the Eknix team - thank you for being with us in 2024, and here's to a great 2025. - [Why CDN Vendors Hide Their Prices (And What to Do About It)](https://www.eknix.com/blog/contact-sales-button/): The "Contact Sales" button on enterprise CDN sites isn't evasion - it reflects how CDN pricing actually works, and how to navigate the conversation to your advantage. - [CDN to Origin Certificates: Your Own CA with OpenSSL](https://www.eknix.com/blog/cdn-to-origin-certificates/): How to manage TLS certificates on an origin behind a CDN - why certificate pinning doesn't scale, and how to create and operate a private CA that Akamai trusts. ## Company - [About Eknix](https://www.eknix.com/company/about/): Senior-led team of web security and performance engineers. Akamai-certified across the full product surface. Operators, not resellers. - [Trust & Security](https://www.eknix.com/company/trust/): Certifications, compliance posture, responsible disclosure policy, and data processing commitments. - [Contact](https://www.eknix.com/company/contact/): Get in touch or book a free consultation.