Blog Security Akamai Mitigates Record DDoS Attack in Asia-Pacific (900 Gbps) Craig Sparling is a Product Manager in the Cloud Security business unit. Craig joined Akamai with the acquisition of Prolexic and specializes in attack detection, network monitoring, data visualization, and user interfaces. His passion is working for customers to understand their needs and creating powerful and intuitive solutions that solve their real-world problems. Following last summer’s record-setting attacks on Europe, the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) threat landscape continues to morph and intensify.  \r\n On February 23, 2023, at 10:22 UTC, Akamai mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever launched against a Prolexic customer based in Asia-Pacific (APAC), with attack traffic peaking at 900.1 gigabits per second and 158.2 million packets per second.  \r\n In line with current trends, the attack was intense and short-lived, with most attack traffic bursting during the peak minute of the attack.…