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Akamai Technologies is a global content delivery network, cybersecurity and cloud service company, providing web and Internet security services. Its content delivery network (CDN) is one of the world’s largest distributed computing platforms, responsible for serving between 15% and 30% of all web traffic. Here, Prasad Mandava, MD India & VP, Engineering, Akamai Technologies, tells us more
What should one do in the case of a sudden increase in remote user volumes?
Akamai has rolled out a robust Unified communications program, enabling audio/ video and chat on a single platform. We had already deployed dual-factor authentication, largely eliminating the need for passwords and single sign-on for hundreds of enterprise applications. Akamai’s Enterprise Application Access (EAA) product is based on a Zero Trust model, where we treat our offices like any hotspot and enabled application-level access controls.
We have adopted our own enterprise security products for application access, threat protection as well as web application firewall. With EAA and our other Enterprise products, our employees could already work from anywhere. Our infrastructure is already designed with our global, mobile workforce in mind, so it was a pretty smooth transition when we declared global WFH for our employees.