Blog Security AkaRank: Improving Popularity Rankings for Better Threat Intelligence, Part 2 Noy Aizenberg is a Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies. Congcong Xing is a Data Analyst at Akamai Technologies. Introduction \r\n"}}"> Introduction Part 1 of this series on improving popularity rank lists examined the shutdown of the widely used Alexa Top 1 Million list of popular websites. As part of their work, Akamai security researchers used the Alexa list to make better decisions to eliminate false positives from blocklists. Our threat intelligence is widely used to protect enterprises and subscribers in ISP and MNO networks around the world, and false positives disrupt the subscriber experience.  \r\n The blog post also talked about the limitations of other popularity rank lists that have been introduced over the past few years. In addition, we introduced our new popularity ranking product, AkaRank, which was developed by a team at Akamai.…