Name: Vulnerability Management in 2022: Reduce Your Attack Surface
Start: 2022-06-15T16:00:00Z
End: 2022-06-15T16:01:01.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences — helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. Akamai Connected Cloud, a massively distributed edge and cloud platform, puts apps and experiences closer to users and keeps threats farther away. Learn more about Akamai’s cloud computing, security, and content delivery solutions.

In today's digital landscape, securing cloud environments is essential to safeguarding enterprise operations. This event is tailored for IT professionals and decision-makers dedicated to fortifying their organization's cloud infrastructure.

Participants will dive into cutting-edge strategies and technologies for cloud security, covering key areas such as identity and access management, data encryption, threat detection, and security posture management. Industry experts from leading cloud security firms will offer actionable insights on building resilient security frameworks, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards, and responding effectively to security incidents using the latest tools.

Gain the expertise you need to protect your cloud environment and uphold the integrity of your data

Securing Your Cloud with Hydrolix

The cloud infrastructure of today cannot meet the requirements of tomorrow's applications.

New applications using AI and mixed reality require new approaches to provide more responsive applications and to protect privacy. Existing applications are becoming more personalised and customised. Customer experience needs to be seamless and reactive in the moments that matter.

Join us as we discuss how we're building a globally distributed cloud to meet the needs of your customers, partners, and your organisation.

The Disruption of Cloud Computing in the Era of AI

As digital experiences evolve, the demand for faster, more efficient web performance has never been greater. Join this webinar for a technical deep dive that reveals how you can benefit from the latest performance optimisations in the browser, at the edge, and in the cloud. 

In a data driven story, we highlight modern techniques allowing for instant UX covering: 
- Distributed compute
- 103 early hints
- Speculation rules
- Volatile content acceleration
- 0-RTT

Presenters:
- Tim Vereecke, Performance Specialist, Akamai 
- Robin Marx, Performance Specialist, Akamai

Secure your spot today and stay ahead of the curve!

From Lightning Fast to Instant: Five Modern Ways to Beat Latency

Join us to discover how Akamai and Ateme are transforming cloud computing for the Media & Entertainment industry. In an era of unpredictable viewership and complex workloads, our solutions offer cost-effective, reliable platforms for streaming services. Learn how Akamai’s low-cost, predictable pricing and award-winning support, combined with Ateme’s top-tier video delivery, can enhance your digital transformation journey. Boost viewership, streamline delivery, and improve performance with insights on:

- Cost Optimisation
- Low Latency
- Easy Adoption
- Flexible Deployment

Simplifying Cloud for Media & Entertainment with Akamai & Ateme

Between generative AI and the multitude of ready-built malware readily available, the technical barrier to entry for attackers has been significantly lowered. This creates even more strain for defenders - even “amateurs” can achieve successful exploitation against a mature organization.

Join us for episode 11 of our Monthly Threat Brief: The SIG Download series, featuring Tricia Howard and Or Zuckerman, Senior Cyber Security Researcher at Akamai. 

In this episode, through a real life example from our Hunt team, Tricia and Or will discuss how you can heighten your defenses to account for this new gap. They will also review recent security incidents from the past 30 days and offer expert advice on defense tactics.

SIG Download: Episode 11 - Amateur Intelligence: Threats of a Lowered Technical Barrier

Join our upcoming live webinar to explore the findings from Akamai’s latest State of the Internet (SOTI) report, Digital Fortresses Under Siege: Threats to Modern Application Architectures. Our analysis has uncovered critical insights into the growing risks faced by today's digital infrastructures.

Key topics to be covered include:
- A 49% surge in application and API attacks over the past year.
- The staggering total of 108 billion API attacks in the last 18 months.
- Regional and industry-specific breakdowns of attack trends.
- Emerging threats and their implications for your security strategy.

Our security experts will offer an in-depth discussion of the report's findings and share actionable recommendations to help safeguard your web applications and API infrastructure.

Presenters:
- Tricia Howard, Senior Technical Writer, Akamai
- Richard Meeus, Director of Security Technology and Strategy, EMEA, Akamai

State of the Internet: Defending Digital Fortresses

Die Planung und Umsetzung eines Zero-Trust-Ziels erfordert nicht nur den Einsatz von Tools, sondern bedarf einer sorgfältigen Strategie und auch Durchhaltevermögen.

Unsere Kunden stehen vor verschiedenen Herausforderungen bei der Implementierung von Zero Trust. Dazu gehören die Integration bestehender Systeme und Infrastrukturen, der Umgang mit komplexen Netzwerktopologien und die Anpassung an die spezifischen Anforderungen und Bedrohungsszenarien ihrer Organisationen. Zudem stellt der Kulturwandel hin zu einem Modell, das kontinuierliche Überwachung und strikte Authentifizierungsprozesse erfordert, viele Unternehmen vor erhebliche organisatorische und technische Hürden.

Wichtige Erkenntnisse

- Erfahren Sie, wie Akamai die Zero-Trust-Prinzipien anwendet, als es noch nicht Zero Trust genannt wurde
- Verstehen Sie die Herausforderungen und Grenzen einer erfolgreichen Zero Trust-Implementierung
- Erfahren Sie, wie KI Ihnen helfen kann, Ihren Sicherheitsstatus zu erhöhen
- Übernehmen Sie neue Ideen, um Ihr eigenes Zero Trust-Programm zu verbessern
- Best practices: Sie lernen anhand von Kundenbeispielen den einzigartigen Ansatz von Akamai kennen, um Zero Trust erfolgreich und langfristig umzusetzen.

Don’t be a fool, Zero Trust is more than a tool!

APIs power the modern world. They are the fundamental building blocks of every application, enabling seamless communication and data sharing across the digital landscape. However, this very reliance on APIs makes them increasingly the target of attacks, with cybercriminals actively seeking to exploit vulnerabilities, gain unauthorised access, and extract sensitive data.

Watch this webinar to learn why API security is not just an add-on but a critical component for businesses looking to innovate and scale. This webinar highlights the growing threats to APIs and why securing them is vital for the future of any organisation. We also examine how our newly acquired API Security solution enhances our Application Security portfolio to protect your business from evolving threats and support your growth ambitions.

Presenters:
- Keith Ward, Webinar Moderator, Future B2B
- Karl Mattson, Field CISO, Akamai
- Steve Winterfeld, Advisory CISO, Akamai

Future-Proofing Your Business: Why API Security is Essential for Growth and Innovation

Edge computing is a method to process your data locally, close to users and devices, which saves bandwidth, reduces latency, and delivers high-speed digital experiences. What’s not to love? This is why increasing numbers of organizations across the globe are starting to explore this latest innovative approach to cloud computing.

Of particular interest to edge computing pioneers are edge-native applications, which you specially design to take advantage of edge computing capabilities and to push experiences and data closer to your users, regardless of where they are located across the globe. But how do you get started? This is the focus of Episode 3: Your Journey to Edge Native, the third installment in our new three-part video series, Building in the Cloud: How to Optimize Cost and Performance.

What to expect in Episode 3:
• Gain a good grounding in the concepts and benefits of edge computing and edge-native applications.
• Receive an introduction to innovative technologies, including HarperDB, which can help you enable edge-native capabilities.

Why watch Episode 3?
• Learn how to apply an edge-native approach to cloud computing to realize low-latency data replication and global-scale services delivery.
• Find out the reasons why now is a great time for you to start exploring edge computing and edge-native applications.
• Discover real-world examples of how and why organizations are adopting edge-native applications.

Speakers:
• Ben Cole, Executive Editor, TechTarget (Host)
• Shawn Michels, VP of Product Management, Akamai
• Jaxon Repp, Field CTO and Head of Marketing, HarperDB
• Jay Jenkins, CTO, Cloud Computing, Akamai

Available soon to watch on demand:
All three episodes of our video series Building in the Cloud: How to Optimize Cost and Performance
• Episode 1: Deliver Low-Latency Applications and Reduce Costs
• Episode 2: Use Observability to Optimize Costs
• Episode 3: Your Journey to Edge Native

Your Journey to Edge Native

Observability or the ability to monitor, and measure what's happening inside your cloud computing architecture in real time is vital information for every organization. These insights can help you understand how to improve user experiences for your customers, enabling you to increase customer satisfaction, loyalty, and retention.

Examining the different flavors of observability is the focus of Episode 2: Use Observability to Optimize Costs, the second installment in a new three-part video series, Building in the Cloud: How to Optimize Cost and Performance.

What to expect in Episode 2:
• Find out about the benefits of having full visibility into your cloud computing infrastructure.
• Explore how observability solutions can help you to anticipate content demand, and to avoid painful data tradeoffs.

Why watch Episode 2?
• Discover how to optimize your global delivery, while safeguarding your customer experiences.
• Learn how to use observability to help lower your cloud costs.
• Compare and contrast the different types of observability tools, including managed observability services versus more 'build your own' observability options.

Coming next:
• Building in the Cloud: How to Optimize Cost and Performance, Episode 3: Your Journey to Edge Native

Use Observability to Optimize Costs

Organizations, regardless of their size or the industry they serve, are all on a voyage of discovery, where they're investigating what will be the next best iteration of cloud computing to better support the current and future needs of their customers and their own businesses. Like them, you're looking to provide superior customer experiences, which are also cost-efficient, but you're wondering whether it's possible to improve both performance and cost savings.

Here's the good news. You can boost your cloud performance, while also improving your cloud cost savings. The key is adopting a distributed cloud architecture. This is the central theme of Episode 1: Deliver Low-Latency Applications and Reduce Costs, the first installment in a new three-part video series, Building in the Cloud: How to Optimize Cost and Performance.

What to expect in Episode 1:
• Learn more about the benefits of reducing latency and optimizing costs through distributed cloud architectures.
• Find out the reasons why to run your cloud applications and workloads as close as possible to your customers and their devices

Why watch Episode 1?
• The importance of minimizing latency to deliver consistently reliable customer experience across the globe.
• How to keep egress costs while continuing to expand your worldwide business
• Real-world examples of how to successfully achieve better cloud computing resource distribution and cost efficiency.

Coming next:
• Building in the Cloud: How to Optimize Cost and Performance, Episode 2: Use Observability to Optimize Costs

Deliver Low Latency Applications and Reduce Costs

As the cloud computing landscape evolves, so do user expectations for more personalised and connected digital experiences. Basic personalisation no longer suffices. Today, users demand customised services that leverage their personal data responsibly and securely.
 
In this Tech Talk, cloud computing expert Ari Weil talks with veteran technology journalist John K. Waters about how business and IT leaders are leveraging distributed cloud computing to meet these expectations.
 
The discussion will cover:
 
- The emerging concept of distributed cloud platforms and their transformative potential for business operations.
- How end-user demand for more sophisticated experiences is driving demand in the enterprise for distributed cloud computing tools. 
- How distributed cloud computing enhances operational efficiency by minimising latency and dynamically scaling services to user needs.
- How businesses can leverage commercially available AI tools to improve decision-making processes and automate operations close to the user base.
 
Featuring real-world examples from pioneering companies, this webinar promises to equip participants with valuable insights and strategies to harness the power of distributed cloud computing in creating more engaging and efficient user experiences. Join industry experts as we discuss where the cloud industry is headed and how your business can benefit from these developments.
 
Speakers:
- Ari Weil, VP of Cloud Computing and Delivery Product Marketing, Akamai
- John K. Waters, Editor-in-Chief, Virtualization & Cloud Review

Advancing the Cloud: How Distributed Computing Meets Modern User Demands

In this 10th episode of the SIG Download, Tricia welcomes games security expert Chris Finch to delve into the security and streaming challenges surrounding major sporting events.

SIG Download: Episode Ten - Guardians of the Games

In this episode of the SIG Download, Tricia is joined by Ofir Shen, a security researcher from Akamai's Hunt Team. They discuss Patch Tuesday high severity vulnerabilities, the importance of prioritization, top tips for threat hunting, threat modeling, and more!

SIG Download: Episode Nine - Threat Hunting Special

In un contesto di sempre maggiori minacce Ransomware e con l'ampio utilizzo di architetture Ibride e Multicloud, è cruciale adottare strategie di difesa avanzate basate sull'approccio Zero Trust. Integrando visibilità avanzata, (micro-)segmentazione e monitoraggio continuo attraverso un "single pane of glass", è possibile contrastare efficacemente la diffusione del malware all'interno dell'infrastruttura. Il risultato di tale approccio? Un significativo abbattimento del rischio di danni e perdite di dati.

Partecipando a questo webinar, scoprirai:
- L'evoluzione dei cybercrime e le minacce emergenti nel contesto moderno, con particolare attenzione ai rischi presentati dai ransomware;
- L'importanza e i vantaggi dell'approccio Zero Trust;
- Come Akamai Guardicore facilita la gestione degli incidenti e la mitigazione dei rischi associati.

Zero Trust: Interrompere la kill chain Ransomware

Enterprises are seeking innovative and efficient ways to manage their distributed computing needs. The collaboration between HarperDB and Akamai Connected Cloud is setting a benchmark in this space, providing a scalable architecture optimized for distributed cloud computing. Reflecting on Gartner's forecast, by 2025, a significant 75% of enterprise-generated data will be processed at the edge, away from traditional data centers, underscoring the critical need for robust edge computing capabilities. This upcoming webinar will delve into strategies for embracing this shift, enhancing cloud deployment efficiencies, and capitalizing on the power of edge computing to secure a competitive edge in today's dynamic technology landscape.

You will learn how to: 

● Gain insights into optimizing cloud costs & supporting data sovereignty
● Developing, and delivering low-latency workload
● Avoid vendor lock-in, while embracing multi cloud architectures. 

Join us as we delve into the synergistic partnership between HarperDB and Akamai Connected Cloud, exploring the integration's potential to revolutionize cloud computing with a focus on massive scalability, flexibility, and cloud portability. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from the experts.

The Competitive Edge: Optimizing Cloud Efficiency with HarperDB & Akamai

Hacktivism is believed to be one of the main reasons DDoS attack frequency is rising in the EMEA region. But there is so much more to it. Join an in-depth presentation of the data and analysis in Fighting the Heat: EMEA’s Rising DDoS Threats, our latest State of the Internet (SOTI) research report. 

You’ll learn about: 
• New data on methods and targets
• Case study findings in commerce attacks
• Emerging EMEA infosec legislation 
• Strategic actions you can take

Presenters:
• Richard Meeus, Director of Security Technology and Strategy, Akamai
• Lance Rhodes, Cybersecurity Writer, Akamai

State of the Internet: EMEA’s Rising DDoS Threats

In rethinking their current cloud architecture, organizations see distributed cloud computing as the way to provide optimal experiences for their global customers. As a developer, you want to be able to bring your applications and workloads closer to your users, regardless of their location. So, how popular is distributed cloud computing and how are builders using and benefiting from this approach?

The third installment in a new three-part video series, Building in the Cloud: The Shift to Cloud Native, answers these questions. Episode 3: Moving to a Distributed Cloud Approach brings together third-party analyst research with real-world use cases from Akamai’s cloud engineering team.

What to expect in Episode 3:
• Find out the latest data on distributed cloud computing adoption by developers around the world
• Identify the key benefits of a distributed cloud approach including lower costs, greater flexibility, scalability, and security, and increased value to customers.

Why watch Episode 3?
• Discover the reasons why more global organizations and developers are moving to a distributed cloud approach
• Learn about real-world use cases for distributed cloud computing across industries and departments
• Explore why organizations and developers are running into limitations with their current centralized cloud infrastructure

Available soon to watch on-demand:
All three episodes of our video series Building in the Cloud: The Shift to Cloud Native
• Episode 1: The Shift to Cloud Native
• Episode 2: How to Build for Portability
• Episode 3: Moving to a Distributed Cloud Approach

Episode 3: Moving to a Distributed Cloud Approach

In 2022, your attack surface will be larger than ever before. From the onset of the hybrid workforce to huge waves of data being produced, security teams around the world are working hard to reduce their attack surface and improve operational security. But to do this, effective vulnerability management is a must-have. 

A successful vulnerability management program must have visibility over the entire organisation and the right tools. This year, unpatched vulnerability endpoints will continue to be exploited, and building up your vulnerability management is key to avoiding a breach. 

Join us in this session as we discuss: 

-  The importance of patching 
-  Taking a risk-based approach to vulnerability management
-  AI and fraud prevention 
-  How security teams are “cleaning up” vulnerabilities left behind by Covid
-  Attack surface reduction and management

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