IT organizations increasingly rely on Internet and cloud-based technologies to support their distributed operations. This has spawned a host of new application delivery challenges that, hand-in-hand with the industry trends of globalization, growing cloud adoption, and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), mean that IT often has little to no control of either end user devices,
The advent of the Internet has resulted in an ever-expanding data ecosystem. Unfortunately, this has also led to an increase in data breaches and identity theft. While attackers are still motivated by crime (to gain money), politics (to gain power and influence), and espionage (to gain market advantage), they also want to steal your information
Akamai’s globally-distributed Intelligent Platform allows us to gather massive amounts of data on many metrics, including connection speeds, attack traffic, network connectivity/ availability issues, and IPv6 adoption progress, as well as traffic patterns across leading Web properties and digital media providers. Each quarter, Akamai publishes the State of the Internet Report.
WHY SHOULD I READ THIS GUIDE? The data center perimeter is dead. But its memory lives on in the way many IT departments continue to secure their infrastructure. The meteoric rise of the Internet brought with it an ever-changing landscape of new attacks and completely disrupted organizations’ old models of guarding their IT infrastructure.
eCommerce sales continue to grow unabated across Europe. Web sites are becoming the chief source of shopping information for consumers, regardless of channel, with store sales influenced by online research being three to five times larger than total ecommerce sales. The customer touch points are multiplying and shifting more into the hands of consumers. IDC
While threats to network and information security have existed since the dawn of the information age, the complexity and scale of attacks have exploded in recent years, presenting enterprises with daunting challenges as they struggle to defend an increasingly vulnerable perimeter. With cyber crime now more lucrative, and far less risky, than the illegal drug