Collaborate Disseminate
In case you haven’t been paying attention, an unlikely technology, the Internet’s Domain Name System, or DNS, is experiencing a renaissance. For much of its existence, DNS has maintained a simple and singular function – to resolve Internet names to… Continue reading Akamai’s Leading Role in the DNS Renaissance
This Guest blog was written by Robert Mahowald, a Group Vice President at IDC who leads IDC’s Worldwide Applications research practice, in addition to co-leading IDC’s Cloud Services: Global Overview program. A surprising set of facts emerged from the most… Continue reading Taking the Fight Where It Belongs
This Guest blog was written by Martha Gomez Vazquez, a Senior Research Analyst for IDC’s Infrastructure Services research practice focusing on Security Services and Hardware & Software Support and Deployment. The widespread success of security breaches over the past few… Continue reading Choosing the right application access solution for a hybrid IT world
We are often so caught up in our own realities that we miss obvious similarities or synergies. Luckily when various people look at the same situation, different perspectives emerge. I was reminded of that recently during a conversation with one… Continue reading Access and Delivery different sides of the same coin
I sat down again with John Payne, Akamai’s Chief Architect of Infrastructure and Security, as well as Keith Hillis, Director IT Risk & Security. We spoke about enterprise security compliance, and how Enterprise Application Access (EAA) exceeds Akamai’s requirements and… Continue reading Enterprise Security: EAA Exceeds Compliance Standards
In an earlier blog, "Remote Access no longer needs to be Complex and Cumbersome", I wrote about the new game-changing remote access solution available from Akamai called Enterprise Application Access (EAA). My thesis was that in our cloud-first, mobile-dominated world,… Continue reading Reducing Infrastructure Cost with new Enterprise Application Access Architecture
As technology continues to develop, more and more applications become not just convenient, but necessary. It was less than a decade ago that it was inconceivable we would ‘need’ to carry a consumer device to access the internet in our… Continue reading Strengthening Network Access Security with Multi-Factor Authentication
About a month or so ago I shared a quick video interview with Joe DeFelice. Joe is a Sr. Director Enterprise Security & Infrastructure Engineering here at Akamai. In the video Joe outlines a few of the major initiatives he… Continue reading Akamai IT Challenge – 100 apps on EAA in 100 days
SharePoint, Microsoft’s 16-year-old flagship file storage and collaboration product, is used by over 200 million worldwide users. Likened to a Swiss Army knife, SharePoint performs so many functions that it has become an integral part of most enterprise IT fabrics…. Continue reading Secure (and Simple) SharePoint Remote Access
We are all familiar with the enterprise security approach of treating an organization like a castle, and protecting it with a moat. Moats have been used for perimeter defense since ancient Egypt. While the moat and castle enterprise security approach… Continue reading Why moats and castles belong in the past