Akamai - SASE (ZTNA) - Season 2 - #23

Security Architecture Podcast

Sriram from Akamai joins us to discuss the #SASE #ZTNA offering. Sriram is a Product Line director within Akamai’s Enterprise Division He is responsible for Akamai’s SASE initiatives around Zero Trust Access. Sriram has more than a decade of experience in product management across varied fields.

In Season 2 Kick-off episode we introduced the topic with Dr. Chase Cunningham.

Episode #11

For slides and please refer to our website and watch the video episode

The question we ask the vendors:

1. What's the name of the offering/product addressing the remote access.
   
2. Describe your overall architecture at a high level (ideally with a picture) - POPs, HA, bandwidth requirements or restrictions.
   
3. How do you license your product? (seats, devices, concurrent connections, bandwidth).
   
4. How do you tie back to the User Identity and MFA?
   
5. Describe end user access options, clientless/client (People relying these days on their browser for performing their day to day job activities, what are the options you provide to such users).
   
6. What kind of protocols your remote solution supports; VOIP, FileShare, Printing, SCCM, Password changes.
   
7. How would your solution work on slow networks or when the user is roaming between networks?
   
8. Educate us more about your product’s reporting and alerting options (including UBA).

Product Whitepaper:

Product Demo:

About Sriram:

Sriram Balasubramanian is a Product Line director within Akamai’s Enterprise Division. He is responsible for Akamai’s SASE initiatives around Zero Trust Access. Sriram has more than a decade of experience in product management across varied fields including Networking, Security and Internet of Things. Prior to Akamai, Sriram spent 7 years with Cisco Systems leading various emerging initiatives within the company. Sriram holds a Bachelor and Master’s degree in computer science.

About Akamai:

Akamai secures and delivers digital experiences for the world’s largest companies. Akamai’s intelligent edge platform surrounds everything, from the enterprise to the cloud, so customers and their businesses can be fast, smart and secure. Top brands globally rely on Akamai to help them realize competitive advantage through agile solutions that extend the power of their multi-cloud architectures. Akamai keeps decisions, apps and experiences closer to users than anyone – and attacks and threats far away.