Charlie Gero

Charlie Gero is a VP & CTO of the Enterprise Division at Akamai as well as leads the Advanced Projects Group. He currently focuses on bleeding edge research in the areas of security, applied mathematics, cryptography, and distributed algorithms in order to build the next generation of technologies that will protect Akamai's growing customer base. Through his research at Akamai, he has secured nearly 30 patents in cryptography, compression, performant network systems, real time media distribution, and more, and has degrees in both Physics and Computer Science. He has been at Akamai for nearly 15 years, having prior founded a startup and served in key computer science positions in the pharmaceutical and networking industries.

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Your IT Infrastructure is Hybrid. So Why Not Your Security Model?

Charlie Gero | May 29, 2025 | application security strategy, Cloud, hybrid infrastructure, security

A hybrid security model provides the ability to deploy a variety of rule sets for specific applications while providing a single, centralized way to manage it all ... Read More

Security Boulevard

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Zero-Trust Network Access: Why so Many Teams Get it Wrong

Charlie Gero | March 18, 2024 | cybercrime, Cybersecurity, identitty management, identity governance administration, Infosec, microsegmentation, Ransomware, zero trust, ZTNA

Zero-trust encompasses a variety of technologies, from strong identity systems to microsegmentation. Why are so many organizations getting it wrong? ... Read More

Security Boulevard

Trusting Locations Bites Us Yet Again

Charlie Gero | June 7, 2021 | Cloud Security, security, zerotrust

Recently, Microsoft announced the discovery of yet another attack being launched by the now infamous Nobelium group, which has been responsible for numerous successful attacks, including the widespread SolarWinds breach in 2020. Thankfully, this latest attempt was not as impactful as those in the past. It was discovered early on ... Read More

The Akamai Blog

Authentication: Lessons Learned from Microsoft Exchange and F5 BIG-IP Hacks

Charlie Gero | March 24, 2021 | cloudsecurity, enterpriseapplicationaccess, News & Announcements, zerotrust

The past month has been a very dynamic time in the world of security for hackers and threat researchers, but it has been an extended nightmare for CSOs responsible for securing their enterprise networks ... Read More

The Akamai Blog

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Akamai + Fingerbank: How an open source community can transform security

Charlie Gero | February 1, 2021 | Cloud Security, Connected Devices, connecteddevices, Corporate, enterpriseapplicationaccess, iot, News & Announcements, zero trust, zerotrust

Isn't it amazing how seemingly simple decisions can have far-reaching effects? When the Inverse team in Montreal took over PacketFence in 2008, it was an open source (OS) solution. They recognized the inherent value in keeping it as such. In so doing, they didn't just launch a product--they created a ... Read More

The Akamai Blog

Senator Sanders Wants to Own AI Companies — and Hand America’s Adversaries the Keys

NIST’s Nine: The PQC Signature Race Moves to Round Three

The Quantum Arms Race: Why Washington Just Wrote a $2 Billion Check to Nine Companies

Beyond Moore’s Law: The Hyper-Acceleration of Autonomous AI Cyber Capabilities

The Exception Economy: When Security Teams Stop Protecting and Start Negotiating

GoPlus’s Latest Report Highlights How Blockchain Communities Are Leveraging Critical API Security Data To Mitigate Web3 Threats

C2A Security’s EVSec Risk Management and Automation Platform Gains Traction in Automotive Industry as Companies Seek to Efficiently Meet Regulatory Requirements

Zama Raises $73M in Series A Lead by Multicoin Capital and Protocol Labs to Commercialize Fully Homomorphic Encryption

RSM US Deploys Stellar Cyber Open XDR Platform to Secure Clients

ThreatHunter.ai Halts Hundreds of Attacks in the past 48 hours: Combating Ransomware and Nation-State Cyber Threats Head-On