The beginning of August is upon us, and if you haven?t already started thinking about the busiest time of the year, now is a good time to do so. Whether you?re an experienced veteran of managing peak traffic or new to the game, Q4 can bring surprises when it comes to performance and security. And while it?s nearly impossible to prepare for every situation, there are a number of options and solutions available at Akamai to help manage the surge of traffic (both good and bad) that will be hitting the retail industry during the holiday season, especially on Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
Maybe you?ve just found out that your company?s IT organization is implementing Zero Trust. Does that mean they don?t trust you? ?Zero Trust? sure sounds that way. Maybe you?ve read about it online or heard somebody talk about it in terms that equate Zero Trust with the idea that users and devices are never trusted.
Akamai engineering has adopted new technology concepts to enhance and expand routing capabilities at the edge. Previously, Akamai?s traffic-steering capabilities were mainly focused on DNS-based routing. In this article, we would like to give you an in-depth look at how Akamai has embraced new routing technology concepts and merged them into the Akamai edge to enhance routing capabilities, provide faster and better traffic steering, and offer even better performance.
With the transition to remote work, we often hear the term remote access used in unison. Typically, remote work application access is facilitated via a remote access mechanism and, presumably, local work application access is facilitated via a local access mechanism. But I argue that this connection does not really hold true. Sure, remote work does require the use of a remote access mechanism, but the mechanism can and should also be used for local work. There's really no such thing as local access.