What’s New in Security, Part 2
Welcome to the Akamai Platform Update! We're presenting an entire week of learning about Akamai's recent product updates. Each day, we'll highlight our latest innovations in each area of the Akamai Intelligent Platform ... Read More
What’s New in Customer Identity and Access Management
We all know that the ability to accurately identify, understand, and engage our customers across multiple channels and digital touchpoints is absolutely vital to the digital customer experience and business. This couldn't be more important in the current environment as we continue to move more of our lives online ... Read More
Akamai Mitigates Sophisticated 1.44 Tbps and 385 Mpps DDoS Attack
It always surprises me how easily a community can adapt to a new situation or reality. What was once considered an outlier or even an unimaginable situation can quickly become our new normal ... Read More
March 2020 — What’s New in Security, Part 2
Welcome to Akamai's March 2020 Release. As we covered yesterday, this release offers a week of product updates, with each day highlighting continued innovations across a different area of Akamai's portfolio: Monday and Tuesday feature two days of security updates ... Read More
Security at the Edge – What is Gartner’s SASE & why does it matter?
Recently, Gartner published a report called "Market Trends: How to Win as WAN Edge and Security Converge Into the Secure Access Service Edge" that dives into how to enable security and network access controls as-a-service from the cloud. But what ... Read More
Akamai Identified as a Leader Among Zero Trust Providers by Independent Research Firm
We are pleased to share that Akamai has been identified as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust eXtended Ecosystem Platform Providers, Q4 2019 ... Read More
Trust As The Foundation Of Security
Our customers are moving more workloads to the cloud. No surprise there. The siren song of agility, scale, and cost savings can't be resisted. But as we highlighted earlier, security fundamentals are key to a successful cloud migration. In fact, we also shared marketectures to successfully migrate apps to the ... Read More
Security Fundamentals Are Key To Successful Cloud Migration
Earlier I wrote about the importance of patching, or more accurately the importance of transferring the need to patch (& the associated risk) to someone else by using their cloud security service. While patching definitely falls into the security fundamentals category it remains as relevant as ever, but it's not ... Read More
Time to Transfer Risk: Why Security Complexity & VPNs Are No Longer Sustainable
Now, there are many reasons to isolate your infrastructure from the Internet. Minimizing the number of exposed things not only reduces risk, it also reduces operational complexity. VPNs are counter to this. VPNs make it so you aren't exposing all of your applications publicly in a DMZ, which is good ... Read More
Does Zero Trust Security Have to be Hard to be Effective?
That's where Zero Trust security comes in. Yes, there are many flavors and debates around Zero Trust security, but for the purpose of this post I will try to keep it simple. (Don't get me started on how we need to reduce complexity to reduce risk...) So, Zero Trust security ... Read More
