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Akamai Technologies is deepening its shift from content delivery into security and cloud infrastructure, anchored by an expanded Anthropic agreement worth $11.6 billion over seven years, with potential to grow by an additional $9 billion. Second-quarter 2026 security revenues rose 10% year over year to $604 million, more than half of total revenues, while Cloud Infrastructure Services revenues surged 39% to $99 million, and first-half 2026 CIS contracts totaled more than $2.8 billion. Total second-quarter revenues rose 5% to $1.1 billion, but non-GAAP earnings fell 8% to $1.59 per share, adjusted EBITDA dropped 6%, and non-GAAP operating margin contracted to 25% from 30%. Delivery and other cloud application revenues declined 6% to roughly $396 million, and Akamai expects approximately $5.5 billion of total capital expenditures tied to the Anthropic commitment, including around $1.7 billion of incremental capex in 2026. Management guided 2026 revenues to between $4.45 billion and $4.53 billion, while 2026 earnings estimates fell 4.6% to $6.62 and 2027 estimates dropped 8.6% to $6.79 over the past year.

In fiscal 2027, the government will strengthen public-private efforts to investigate whether attackers have infiltrated or are lurking within systems, in order to protect critical infrastructure such as power and telecommunications from cyberattacks. It will build detection methods tailored to threat intelligence and share them with private operators. "Threat hunting," which seeks out threats lurking inside systems, is one of the means of active cyber defense under the relevant law that took effect on the same day, and based on specific threat intelligence, the National Cyber Operations Office will reproduce attacks in a virtual environment and build and verify detection methods that the private sector can use. The Ministry of Defense will also leverage the search capabilities cultivated in the Self-Defense Forces' information systems to provide direct support, including visiting critical infrastructure operators upon request, and the National Cyber Operations Office and the Ministry of Defense have included related expenses in their budget requests for fiscal 2027. Behind this is the concern that a shutdown of privately operated critical infrastructure could lead to a national crisis in a contingency, and U.S. authorities estimated in 2024 that a group believed to be backed by the Chinese government, "Volt Typhoon," had maintained access to parts of U.S. critical infrastructure for more than five years. On the other hand, accumulating and analyzing the logs needed for hunting requires manpower and cost, and NTT Data has been conducting threat hunting on its internal systems since 2024, with Yusuke Nakajima, who is in charge of the effort, pointing out that "to expand the activity, we need to show management the cost-effectiveness."