Increased mobility and a growing utilization of the cloud have driven the need to monitor, control, and secure access to enterprise applications without hindering workforce productivity. Enterprises must also deal with the risky proposition of providing access to a varied list of contractors, suppliers, partners, customers, and developers. Regardless of where these applications are hosted — whether in a public cloud or private data center — this is a complex, cumbersome task requiring on-premises hardware and software such as application delivery controllers (ADC), virtual private networks (VPN), identity and access management (IAM) systems, and more.
Yet with all of these technologies, enterprises are still exposed to a variety of security risks stemming from the fact that access to internal applications opens up the entire network to attack. Akamai’s Enterprise Application Access (EAA) solution solves these problems, helping businesses transform application access to meet today’s mobile- and cloud-centric requirements while improving their overall security posture.
