Forrester has recognized Akamai’s leadership in the Zero Trust offerings.
Akamai has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Zero Trust eXtended Ecosystem Platform Providers, Q4 2019 evaluation. Forrester evaluated 14 vendors and their Zero Trust security portfolios based on 16 criteria including their current offering, strategy, and market presence. The report gave Akamai the highest scores possible in the workload security, people/workforce security, Zero Trust vision and strategy, Zero Trust advocacy, and market approach criteria.
The report states, “Akamai enhances Zero Trust for critical users. Akamai is one of the genuine true believers in the Zero Trust framework. Akamai has a well-aimed approach to solving the crux of the problem by eliminating the VPN and making security more baked in for its customers, with a focus on mitigating the threats that proliferate across enterprises via shared credentials and excessive accesses.”
Akamai’s mission is to protect enterprise users, applications and data following a Zero Trust security model. Akamai’s Zero Trust offerings are uniquely architected to enable least-privilege access, application exploit protection, and advanced threat protection, while delivering an improved and secure user experience. We believe this commitment to adaptive access and threat protection delivered at the edge differentiates Akamai and is reflected in our Leader position in The Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust eXtended Ecosystem Platform Providers, Q4 2019,”
Robert Blumofe, EVP, Platform & General Manager, Enterprise Division, Akamai.
