Introducing the Akamai App Platform

Over the past decade, developers have been forced to choose between two evils: either accept Big Cloud’s complexity, costs, and lock-in, or struggle and lose precious time building everything from scratch. Like code itself, it was a binary decision...

3 Ways to Improve Data Protection in the Cloud

Cloud complexity is now a well-documented and widely felt phenomenon across technology teams — IT, development, and security alike. Multi-cloud architectures have become the norm, with 89% of organizations embracing a strategy that involves multiple cloud vendors. Not only are companies managing...

3 Key Challenges for Cloud Identity and Access Management

Identity and access management IAM is one of the most critical tools for today's cloud-centric environment. Businesses' IT architectures have become more highly distributed than ever, and users need to access a growing suite of cloud services on demand. Determining the identities of users and...

Why a “Lift-and-shift” Cloud Migration Strategy Doesn’t Support Data Security

The classic 1982 Steven Spielberg horror film “Poltergeist” chronicles disturbing, unexplained paranormal activity happening in a suburban family’s idyllic home. As the activity becomes more sinister and terrifying, the family learns that their neighborhood was built on an old burial ground. It...

Managing Enterprise Security After the Data Supernova

As the amount of data continues to grow and expand outside of the enterprise, security leaders need to develop a plan to quickly secure it. The big promise of cloud computing was that it would simplify security. Organizations would no longer have to worry about securing their infrastructure becau...