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 w…

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 Z…

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…

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 ac…

If I had a dollar for every time I heard the phrase ?digital transformation,? I would have a lot of dollars. I?m sure you would too. We?d have even more if we counted the term ?Zero Trust.? (Maybe we should start counting them, now that I think about i…

Near the end of March 2020, G2A.COM saw its traffic virtually double overnight. The pandemic had just begun, and people were looking for ways to stay entertained and connected under lockdown. Not surprisingly, a lot of people turned to video games, and…

Last week, we gathered a few of the most prominent leaders and experts from every corner of the federal space to talk about all things cybersecurity and digital transformation. Discussions ranged from the move toward Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), a…

Backhauling traffic destroys performance, and backhauling attack traffic can destroy even more. Nevertheless, in a traditional security deployment model, we are faced with the lose-lose options of either backhauling all traffic to the security stack or…