Blog Security Demonstrating Resilience and Scale on Black Friday and Cyber Monday Berk Veral is the Senior Director of Product Marketing at Akamai. As the dust settles on the busiest shopping period of the year, I'm thrilled to share that our platform delivered exceptional performance during 2025’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday events. Record-breaking traffic, rock-solid stability Over five intense days, our bot and abuse portfolio of products — including Akamai Bot Manager , Akamai Account Protector , and Akamai Content Protector on Akamai Cloud — handled an approximately 80% increase in overall traffic compared with last year's Black Friday . And this happened while maintaining stability and strong response times when our customers needed us most.…