Blog Security Modernizing Enterprise Security for An Application-Centric World Mani Sundaram is Executive Vice President and General Manager of Akamai’s Security Technology Group. As the traditional security perimeter dissolves, the emphasis shifts to verifying the identity of users and devices that access the network. Enterprise IT infrastructure has evolved in numerous ways over the last 20 years. The critical applications that power modern businesses now often span on-premises infrastructure, cloud workloads, and software as a service (SaaS) platforms. In addition, applications are now accessed in more ways than ever. While direct interaction through traditional user interfaces remains common, many modern application use models do not have a human in the loop at all, instead consisting of machine-to-machine interactions through APIs . \r\n Overall, this evolution has unlocked many business benefits. IT complexity has been reduced in many areas.…