Name: Episode 2: How to Build for Portability
Start: 2024-05-16T05:00:00Z
End: 2024-05-16T05:00:17.000Z
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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.

Compliance isn’t just about ticking boxes—it’s a cornerstone of long-term resilience and stronger security.
 
As regulations like DORA reshape the landscape and cyber threats grow in sophistication, security leaders must reframe compliance as a strategic opportunity, not just an obligation.
 
Join Bryan Glick (Computer Weekly) and Richard Meeus (Akamai) as they discuss how organisations can align compliance with security goals, strengthen resilience, and stay ahead of risk. Learn how to turn regulatory pressure into a security advantage—and what it takes to prove your controls are truly effective.
 
What you’ll learn:
• How to align security and compliance strategies
• Proactive risk management to prevent breaches
• How to use regulations as a catalyst for resilience

Moderator: Bryan Glick, Editor in chief, Computer Weekly
Speaker: Richard Meeus, Director of Security Technology and Strategy EMEA, Akamai

Compliance & Cyber Resilience: Strengthening Security in a Regulated World

In the final episode of our three-part series, experience TrafficPeak's powerful real-time observability platform in action with product demos. Watch how you can leverage real-time insights to optimize your content delivery and enhance viewer engagement.

 During this interactive session, you'll discover how to: 

-Gain Instant Visibility: Explore TrafficPeak's intuitive dashboard to monitor key metrics such as latency, buffering rates, and content popularity in real-time. 
-Proactively Resolve Issues: Learn how TrafficPeak identifies performance bottlenecks, empowering you to troubleshoot problems before they impact your audience. 
-Maximize Content Impact: See how actionable insights can help you fine-tune content promotion strategies and improve user retention. 
-Simplify Operations: Discover automation capabilities that streamline caching decisions and improve overall delivery efficiency. 

Whether you're looking to improve streaming performance, drive engagement, or enhance your observability strategy, let this demo show you the power of TrafficPeak's capabilities.

Don't miss this opportunity to see TrafficPeak in action and innovate your streaming experience.

Ep. 3 - Experience Real-Time Observability: Join us for a Demo

In the second episode of our three-part series, we take a deep dive into real-world customer experiences with TrafficPeak’s edge observability. Join us for an exclusive subject matter expert fireside chat where we’ll explore how businesses across media streaming, e-commerce, and finance have successfully implemented cost-effective observability to overcome challenges and enhance performance.

You’ll be able to gain valuable insights into:


-Customer Success Stories – Learn how businesses are improving performance, reliability, and user engagement with real-time observability.
-Practical Applications – Understand how observability strategies can be tailored to optimize as per your needs
-Overcoming Industry Challenges – Discover how our customers tackle scalability, latency, security, and compliance hurdles.
-Impact of Cost-effective Solutions - See how affordable observability drives results without breaking the bank

Don’t miss this insightful discussion that bridges the gap between insights and real-world applications, highlighting impactful results.
 Stay tuned for our final episode, which will feature a live product demo showcasing the power of Trafficpeak’s observability platform.

Ep. 2 - Cost-effective Edge Observability in action: Customer Success Insights

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, real-time observability is crucial for delivering seamless experiences, ensuring system reliability, and optimizing performance across industries like media streaming, e-commerce, and finance. TrafficPeak on Akamai Cloud provides instant insights that drive smarter decisions and better outcomes.

Join us to discover how TrafficPeak on Akamai Cloud can help you:


-Real-Time Insights for Smarter Decisions –Instantly monitor user behavior, system performance, and content delivery to optimize operations.
-Enhance Performance & Reliability – Predict traffic surges, balance workloads, and resolve issues before they impact users.
-Optimize Costs & Resource Allocation – Streamline caching, network routing, and cloud spend to maximize efficiency.
-Improve Security & Compliance – Detect anomalies, mitigate threats, and meet industry-specific compliance requirements.
-Stay Ahead with Best Practices – Explore the latest trends in observability and learn how industry leaders are leveraging TrafficPeak.

This is the first episode of a three-part series—stay tuned for upcoming sessions featuring real-world customer case studies and a live product demo in the final episode.

Ep. 1 - Cost-effective Edge Observability with TrafficPeak

Zero Trust isn’t just about security—it’s a critical pillar of cyber resilience. But how do you measure its impact? In this final episode of our cyber resilience webinar series, we’ll break down the real ROI of implementing Zero Trust and how Akamai Guardicore Segmentation helps you maximize security while minimizing costs.

Join us as we explore:

-How to reduce attack surfaces and simplify compliance, and enhance operational security
-How granular segmentation prevents lateral movement and minimizes business disruptions
-Real-world use cases and key metrics to quantify the financial and security benefits

Whether you’re starting or fine-tuning your security strategy, this session will equip you with insights to measure success, reduce risks, and enhance cyber resilience. Don’t miss this opportunity to take that final step in your Zero Trust journey!

Ep. 3 - Ensure Cyber Resilience: Maximizing ROI on Your Zero Trust Journey with Akamai

Cyber threats are evolving—are your defenses keeping up? In the first episode of our series, we explored cyber resilience and how to stay operational in the face of attacks. Now, we’re taking it a step further.

From ransomware and advanced persistent threats to insider attacks, cybercriminals are finding new ways to infiltrate organizations.How do you defend against these threats? The answer is Network segmentation—a critical security strategy that isolates sensitive data and systems, limits damage, and enhances threat detection and response.

Join our experts as we explore:

-Top threats impacting cyber resilience, such as ransomware 
-Live demo showing how to prevent attackers exploiting network weaknesses
-Best practices for adopting stronger security measures.

Walk away with actionable insights to protect your business from emerging threats and ensure operational resilience.

Ep. 2 - Fortifying Cyber Resilience: Tackling Top Threats with Segmentation

With ransomware attacks crippling businesses and data breaches exposing sensitive information on the rise, the question is no longer if an attack will happen, but when— and how prepared you are. That’s why maintaining business continuity and security has never been more critical.

This webinar will break down cyber resilience—What it means and why it’s crucial for businesses of all sizes.In short, cyber resilience is about staying operational and recovering quickly from cyberattacks or system failures.

In this session, we’ll explore how to improve cyber resilience through deeper visibility and threat insights across the technology stack with a focus on improving incident response. We will also be diving into the following topics:

-What are the four pillars of essential visibility and the benefits
-How a multi-layered defense improves cyber resilience
-Walkthrough of a customer case study 

Join us and take the next step in strengthening your cyber defenses and build the cyber resilience you need to protect yourself in today’s digital world.

Ep. 1 - Understanding Cyber Resilience: Why It’s Crucial for Your Business Now

APIs are integral to modern applications including AI's operational and functional aspects. Vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in APIs can lead to severe consequences like data breaches, fines, and reputational damage.

Join our live API Security demo to discover how to:

-Gain complete visibility into your APIs, and the data they handle
-Instantly create an API inventory to meet regulatory compliance requirements
-Leverage AI and machine learning to analyze API transactions and detect posture and business logic vulnerabilities
-Automate workflows for alerts, ticketing, event logs, remediation guidance, and attacker blocking
-Reduce risks early with Shift-Left API testing during the development phase

This presentation is ideal for security professionals, developers, and business leaders looking to stay ahead in the ever-changing landscape of API security.

Ep 3- AI-Powered API Security in Action

Generative AI reshapes API security, posing new threats and solutions. In this session, we will explore how malicious actors could leverage generative AI to exploit API vulnerabilities. And outline how Akamai integrates cutting-edge AI technologies to defend against these threats.

In this practical session, you will learn:

1. How generative AI is being used by attackers to discover vulnerabilities, and automate API exploitation

2. How Akamai API Security employs advanced AI models to identify suspicious patterns and predict threats in real time

3. Real-world examples of how generative AI is used in Akamai API Security to strengthen defenses

This presentation is ideal for security professionals, developers, and business leaders looking to stay ahead in the ever-changing landscape of API security.

Ep-2 Generative AI and API Security: Staying Ahead with Akamai API Security

APIs have long been the important connective tissue that enables modern applications to function, interact, and scale effectively.

In the age of AI, APIs serve as the critical infrastructure that enables seamless communication between AI systems and other applications, facilitating real-time interactions between applications, data sources, and services.

However, as APIs become more integral to AI's operational and functional aspects, they also present a growing attack surface for cyber threats. 

In this session, you will learn:

 1. The Role of APIs in AI and Agentic Systems
 2. How compromised APIs can disrupt AI systems and expose sensitive data
 3. Top security risks affecting APIs and their impact
 4. Mitigating API risks with best practices and AI-powered tools
 5. Key takeaways and next steps

This presentation is ideal for security professionals, developers, and business leaders looking to stay ahead in the ever-changing landscape of API security.

Ep-1 API security in the age of AI

In this "If Your APIs Could Talk" episode, we'll explore the Traffic Audit feature of the Akamai API Security solution. We'll introduce participants to Traffic Audit's powerful capabilities, including recording, visualizing, and analyzing API traffic within their environment. Traffic Audit allows users to easily identify and manage the risk exposure of suspicious users and unusual API behaviors by recording data flows and creating custom audits based on specific criteria. With Traffic Audit, users gain valuable insights into API activity, such as forensic analysis for specific attacks, investigation of suspicious user behavior, and troubleshooting API configurations.

The webinar will provide a comprehensive overview of how Traffic Audit works, including how to create audits that capture and retain traffic according to predetermined filters and rules. Don't miss this opportunity to learn about the innovative capabilities of Traffic Audit and how it can enhance your API security.

Ep. 11 - Deep Dive into API Security Traffic Audit Capability

In this episode of "If Your APIs Could Talk," we explore the Workflow Automation feature of Akamai API Security. This feature dramatically improves efficiency and productivity by simplifying the creation of multi-action workflows. It uses a user-friendly visual editor, customizable workflow samples, and over 300 pre-built connectors. In this session, you'll learn how to automate complex event response processes and synchronize incident-related data with third-party services like ServiceNow, JIRA, and Azure DevOps. We'll also provide examples of common workflow use cases, including: 

- Incident creation in ITSM solutions 
- Notifications to security and business teams 
- Data customization 
- Bi-directional sync with ticketing systems 
- Preventive workflows to block suspicious traffic 

Whether you're an existing user or considering Akamai API Security, this episode will provide valuable insights into using Workflow Automation to streamline your security operations.

Ep. 10 – Workflow Automation Deep Dive

According to IDC, worldwide spending on cloud computing is projected to surpass $1.35 trillion by 2027. As these costs continue to rise, corporate CIOs and CFOs are collaborating to assess the use of cloud technologies in their business growth strategies. As Akamai discovered through Project Cirrus, it is possible to realize savings by undertaking a comprehensive cloud services reassessment and applying core principles to optimize cloud services. Join us for an upcoming webinar where we will discuss how Akamai leveraged distributed cloud computing to:

• Lower cloud costs by 40% in one year
• Improve performance by over 40% faster queries
• Facilitate transition from cloud-friendly to cloud-native

During the discussion, Akamai leaders will help attendees better understand their cloud utilization and start to gain control over cloud spending, while improving performance and agility.

The Cloud Spend Conundrum: Gain Control of Ballooning Cloud Costs

In this "If Your APIs Could Talk" episode, we'll explore the Akamai API Security Native Connector feature. This new integration, built directly into our API Security solution, enables companies to send a copy of their Akamai Connected Cloud traffic to our API Security solution for analysis with just a few clicks. Enabling this integration provides complete visibility into your APIs across environments managed by Akamai, allowing for the detection of vulnerabilities and the ability to rapidly act on runtime incidents. The session will include a demonstration of the connector's seamless deployment, a technical explanation of how it works, and a spotlight on its operational benefits.

Ep. 9 - Akamai API Security Native Connector Deep Dive

Demonstrating compliance with data protection regulations has traditionally required significant effort and resources to mitigate mostly familiar risks. However, the digital landscape is evolving rapidly, introducing threats that many enterprise compliance programs don't fully address. Even regulatory bodies themselves can't always keep pace and provide explicit guidelines covering every aspect necessary to prevent breaches.

This is the case with API protection. Every time a customer, partner, or vendor engages with your business digitally, there’s an API behind the scenes facilitating a rapid exchange of information that often includes sensitive data. Understanding and mitigating API threats is essential as APIs become increasingly integral to our technological infrastructure. This webinar will equip you with an understanding of API risks, effective strategies to safeguard your systems, and the direct implications of APIs on your compliance initiatives.

This webinar is ideal for IT professionals, security analysts, compliance officers, and anyone involved in API development and management who is looking to enhance their understanding of API security and compliance.

Speakers:
- Tony Lauro, Director, Security Technology and Strategy, Akamai
- Stas Neyman, Director, Product Marketing, Akamai

API Security and Compliance: Requirements for Data Protection

In this episode of “If Your APIs Could Talk”, we will uncover intricate strategies used by cyber attackers through a real-life API breach, focusing on the vulnerabilities that were exploited to manipulate a major retailer's loyalty program. Discover the significant impact of these attacks and the measures you can take to reinforce defenses and avoid similar intrusions. This episode will help you learn more about the constantly changing landscape of API security and ways to safeguard your organization against advanced API threats.

Ep. 8 - Anatomy of an API Attack: Insights from a Real-Life Breach

Have you checked your cloud spend lately? Chances are, it’s higher than you expected - or want or even need. For too many, the promise of cloud agility and flexibility has come at an unexpectedly high price.

 Tune into this webinar to hear Akamai’s CIO Kate Prouty share with IDC’s Adam Reeves the critical lessons Akamai learned on their Cloud journey.  You’ll hear how with the right tools, executive level support, diligence, and a modern platform as a service approach, you can bring your cloud costs and sprawl under control.

3 Lessons in Cloud Management That Saved $100M

If you've been wanting to double down on your API security strategy, now is the perfect time. Learn how you can locate legacy and undocumented APIs, monitor traffic to eliminate vulnerabilities, and prevent attacks in real-time. We'll show you how to integrate robust security tests, uncover data policy violations, and build security into your API development process.

With Akamai API Security's new flexible deployment options, extended intelligence across API traffic locations, and expanded suite of integrations as part of our acquisition of Noname security, you can protect your API environment across any platform.

Don't miss this chance to enhance your API security and take advantage of Akamai's new, advanced API protections for your organization.

Ep. 7 - Doubling Down on API Security

In rethinking their current cloud architecture, organisations 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 organisations 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 organisations 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

Moving to a Distributed Cloud Approach

Developers have to create applications quickly and cost-efficiently to always keep ahead of shifting customer and industry demands. By adopting a cloud-native approach to development, you can build applications that take full advantage of the agility, elasticity, scalability, and flexibility of cloud computing.

To begin, you need to become comfortable with the underlying concepts of cloud-native development. This is the focus of Episode 1: The Shift to Cloud Native, the first installment in a new three-part video series, Building in the Cloud: The Shift to Cloud Native.

What to expect in Episode 1:
• Clear definitions of the key terms used in cloud-native application and workload development
• The importance of having the freedom to choose the right cloud for the right workload

Why watch Episode 1?
• Learn about the benefits of taking a cloud-native approach to application and workload development
• Recognize the limitations of platform-centric thinking and the potential dangers around vendor lock-in
• Understand the concept of cloud waste and how it can be minimized by moving to cloud native

Coming next:
• Building in the Cloud: The Shift to Cloud Native, Episode 2: How to Build for Portability

Episode 1:  The Shift to Cloud Native

Building in the Cloud: The Shift to Cloud Native

By taking advantage of portability and open-source tools, cloud-native development enables developers to make decisions on where to deploy and move their workloads to maximize performance and cost-efficiency. Portability gives you the ability to migrate your applications, workloads, data, and other resources to the cloud environment or cloud provider of your choice.

The second installment in a new three-part video series, Building in the Cloud: The Shift to Cloud Native, is about expanding your knowledge of the key technologies involved in creating portable workloads, notably Kubernetes, an open-source platform to run applications in containers. In Episode 2: How to Build for Portability, Akamai’s cloud engineering team explains how to use open-source tools and details best practices.

What to expect in Episode 2:
• Cement your understanding of Kubernetes and Knative, and the relationship between the two technologies
• Get to grips with the components of a Kubernetes cluster, such as the ingress controller, object storage, event streaming, and observability and monitoring

Why watch Episode 2?
• Discover more about the Knative Serving and Knative Eventing components, and the use of brokers and triggers
• Learn about best practices and which open-source tools to use when building out your portable infrastructure
• Gain the knowledge and confidence to deploy your first Kubernetes cluster

Coming next:
• Building in the Cloud: The Shift to Cloud Native, Episode 3: Moving to a Distributed Cloud Approach

Episode 2:  How to Build for Portability

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