Tony Lauro is Director , Security Technology and Strategy at Akamai Technologies - the world ’ s first content delivery network upon its founding in 1998 . “ The co founders of Akamai said that as the internet starts to grow , it will be almost impossible to have a single or even a cluster of servers handle the traffic from multimillions of connections coming in . The solution was edge servers , and we ’ ve deployed over 250,000 of them geographically dispersed around the world closest to where the pockets of internet users are .”

“ We see about 25 to 30 % of the world ’ s web traffic every day come across our platform ,” says Lauro . “ There ’ s major insights there that we can take to let us say this is bad traffic based on X , Y and Z . Over the years , we ’ ve expanded into protecting businesses from downtime against DDoS attacks as well as enterprise services to make sure that employees working from home can do so securely .”

The company ’ s relationship with Bell Canada extends back to 2016 , with the partnership highlighting the key competencies of both businesses . “ Some of the things we ’ ve been doing include accelerating content ,” says Lauro . “ We deliver live streaming services for Bell Raptors content . The Akamai platform is able to accelerate that content and make sure it ’ s highly available for all the devices that want to stream it .” Like many companies , its customers want more content , on more devices , anywhere and at any time . “ We ’ re helping support that mission of Bell Canada and also supporting the needs of the internet at large .”

Akamai ’ s solutions for remote working involve expanding a zero trust methodology . “ That ’ s a SaaS model which effectively says , as you connect from the outside and you come to the inside to an application , you ’ re not going from untrusted to trusted . Everything is considered untrusted . So instead of providing network connectivity to access an internal application , you ’ re just providing an application experience .”

Lauro sees that change to homework as being a continuing trend for Akamai to respond to . “ Companies are asking : how do you securely monitor the user experience that users are having while they work remotely ? How do you monitor security on those devices to make sure that any corporate data is not compromised ? The remote work model , alongside the digital transformation of all the other services that organisations are already trying to , is going to continue to grow and be a key driver in the year ahead .”

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Tony Lauro @ Akamai