The latest update for the Test Center release includes:

• Simplified UX and relaxed validations for Create and Edit flows.
• Delete and Restore features. New ability to delete and restore the deleted object together with child objects.
• Maintenance Page and reordered tabs.
• Fixed bugs.

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is now in beta

An enterprise can now identity and block sensitive or confidential data that’s uploaded from a corporate network and transmitted to the Internet. DLP scans data that’s posted over an HTTP and HTTPS connection. You can scan data or files that’s 5 MB or less.

Sensitive data is identified through a DLP dictionary. A DLP dictionary contains the patterns or the regular expressions that are used to detect sensitive data.

Depending on the policy and the DLP dictionary configuration, you can block the following sensitive information:

• Personal identifiable information (PII), such as social security numbers, home addresses, email addresses, and more.
• Financial and credit card information, such as bank and credit card numbers.
• Personal health and healthcare information. DLP allows your organization to maintain compliance with the United States Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

To learn more about DLP, see the online help. To participate in the beta, contact your Akamai representative.

New API client creation workflow

The new API client creation workflow includes these changes:

• Simplified API client provisioning with Quick and Advanced options
• Ability to create an API client across all Akamai API types

New workflow benefits include:

• The Quick option instantly creates an API client and a credential for the Akamai APIs you can access. This client’s API access levels, group roles, and permissions are identical to yours. You may still edit clients and remove groups and APIs to restrict its access. 
• The Advanced option lets you create an API client, restrict groups, and API access all in a single page view. This is an improvement from the wizard in the legacy workflow as the focus is now on APIs rather than groups. 
• An API client can select all APIs. Different API types no longer exist. All clients will have a single domain: luna.akamaiapis.net. 
• Existing API clients with different domain names will continue to work as expected.
• Editing existing API clients will also be a simpler flow in a single page. 

For details, see the documentation and Akamai Community.

Identity and Access Management Application Enhancements

Enhancements include:

• A new Search field is added to the Role creation window, which is larger now.
• In the user profile screens, Preferred language is renamed to Language & region.
• A new field called Notification list is added to API clients, and is used to send credential expiration emails. For existing clients, the notification list is populated with the owner and creator of the API client. You can now add an email distribution list to receive API clients credential expiration notifications.
• When a new API client is created, an email notification is sent to the owner of the API client.
• If the owner of an API client is locked, the owner’s name and [locked] appears on the Identity and Access Management landing page to easily identify and address the issue.
• The Identity Management API v2 is a new and expanded API that lets you manage API credentials for your API client and other API clients. It offers a simpler interface, making {clientId} optional. This greatly enhances the ability to automate credential expiration monitoring and rotation.The API is automatically accessible to all new and existing API clients.
• All Identity and Access Management events have the prefix IAM so you can easily locate them on Event Viewer.
• Bug fixes.

Sidebar Filter Value Validation

The value validation for the filters with corresponding error messaging was added to the sidebar report filter.

The latest Property Manager update includes six new rulesets for Ion Premier and five new rulesets for DSA, which appear by default when you configure a new property. These new rulesets encompass 63 configuration changes compared to the previous default settings, in order to help you instantly optimize performance with Akamai-recommended settings. The rulesets are organized in a clean structure, making it easier to understand and maintain your properties’ behaviors. These new default rules help you efficiently onboard new properties and leverage best practices for modern websites, apps, and APIs.  The rulesets include:  

• Augment insights. Settings related to monitoring and reporting.
• Accelerate delivery. Settings related to improving the performance of delivering objects to your users.
• Offload origin. Settings related to caching content at the edge and in the browser.
• Strengthen security. Settings that minimize the information your website shares with clients and malicious entities to reduce your exposure to threats.
• Increase availability. Settings that control responding when your origin or third parties are slow or even down to minimize the negative impact on user experience.
• Minimize payload. Settings that reduce the size of the delivered content and decrease the number of bytes sent by your properties.

If you want to configure your properties with the previous default settings, access the classic settings via the Add Rule button while configuring a property. These classic rulesets include:  

• Default (classic). Includes the legacy (prior to 2020) default configuration settings.
• Offload (classic). Includes the legacy (prior to 2020) offload configuration settings.
• Performance (classic). Includes the legacy (prior to 2020) offload configuration settings.

The changes will be available for Ion Standard and Ion Media Advanced in an upcoming release.

The latest Property Manager update includes six new rulesets for Ion Premier and five new rulesets for DSA, which appear by default when you configure a new property. These new rulesets encompass 63 configuration changes compared to the previous default settings, in order to help you instantly optimize performance with Akamai-recommended settings. The rulesets are organized in a clean structure, making it easier to understand and maintain your properties’ behaviors. These new default rules help you efficiently onboard new properties and leverage best practices for modern websites, apps, and APIs.  The rulesets include:  

• Augment insights. Settings related to monitoring and reporting.
• Accelerate delivery. Settings related to improving the performance of delivering objects to your users.
• Offload origin. Settings related to caching content at the edge and in the browser.
• Strengthen security. Settings that minimize the information your website shares with clients and malicious entities to reduce your exposure to threats.
• Increase availability. Settings that control responding when your origin or third parties are slow or even down to minimize the negative impact on user experience.
• Minimize payload. Settings that reduce the size of the delivered content and decrease the number of bytes sent by your properties.

If you want to configure your properties with the previous default settings, access the classic settings via the Add Rule button while configuring a property. These classic rulesets include:  

• Default (classic). Includes the legacy (prior to 2020) default configuration settings.
• Offload (classic). Includes the legacy (prior to 2020) offload configuration settings.
• Performance (classic). Includes the legacy (prior to 2020) offload configuration settings.

The changes will be available for Ion Standard and Ion Media Advanced in an upcoming release.

The latest Property Manager update includes six new rulesets for Ion Premier and five new rulesets for DSA, which appear by default when you configure a new property. These new rulesets encompass 63 configuration changes compared to the previous default settings, in order to help you instantly optimize performance with Akamai-recommended settings. The rulesets are organized in a clean structure, making it easier to understand and maintain your properties’ behaviors. These new default rules help you efficiently onboard new properties and leverage best practices for modern websites, apps, and APIs.  The rulesets include:  

• Augment insights. Settings related to monitoring and reporting.
• Accelerate delivery. Settings related to improving the performance of delivering objects to your users.
• Offload origin. Settings related to caching content at the edge and in the browser.
• Strengthen security. Settings that minimize the information your website shares with clients and malicious entities to reduce your exposure to threats.
• Increase availability. Settings that control responding when your origin or third parties are slow or even down to minimize the negative impact on user experience.
• Minimize payload. Settings that reduce the size of the delivered content and decrease the number of bytes sent by your properties.

If you want to configure your properties with the previous default settings, access the classic settings via the Add Rule button while configuring a property. These classic rulesets include:  

• Default (classic). Includes the legacy (prior to 2020) default configuration settings.
• Offload (classic). Includes the legacy (prior to 2020) offload configuration settings.
• Performance (classic). Includes the legacy (prior to 2020) offload configuration settings.

The changes will be available for Ion Standard and Ion Media Advanced in an upcoming release.

ETP Client 3.2.0 is available for download and now includes DoT protection (beta)

ETP Client 3.2.0 allows your enterprise to secure traffic that’s directed from ETP Client to ETP DNS. This traffic is protected with DNS over TLS (DoT). DoT secures this information with Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption, providing privacy and preventing threat actors or network providers from hijacking DNS traffic. When DoT is enabled for your organization, ETP Client always attempts to use DoT. It falls back to plaintext DNS if the network blocks DoT connections.

New policy settings are now available where you can select whether DoT is required, attempted, or disabled. You can also select the port for DoT connections. For more information, see the online help or the ETP Client Configuration Guide.

ETP Client 3.2.0 also includes fixes to a number of issues.

While version 3.2.0 is available for download, DoT is currently in beta. To participate in this beta, contact your Akamai representative.

New features:

• Akamai SPS Shield.  SPS Shield is a new cloud-based service centered on AnswerX Cloud technology that enables ISPs to offer an essential security service to their SMB and/or residential subscribers without IT integration. SPS Shield is a paid service. To benefit from the SPS Shield service, customers are required to establish a new contract and complete the onboarding process.

• AnswerX Cloud Infrastructure Improvements.  DNSi AnswerX 5.1 introduces a new NAMES AnswerX instance that can handle all basic cloud customers that do not need (complex) custom policy.  

Roku Library v2.5.5

New features:

Graceful shutdown of Media Analytics library in case of:

• Corrupted configuration XML file.
• Configuration XML file download failure.
• Inactive customer account.