Blog Security Lessons from Smart Switching: Rethinking Security and Performance Clint Huffaker started his career on the customer side, managing enterprise networking and security before moving into presales and architecture. Those early lessons gave him a deep appreciation for what customers do every day — balance innovation, risk, and business pressure. Today, as Director of Product Marketing for Security at Akamai, Clint leads initiatives around Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Zero Trust.  In the first part of this three-part series, we are going to rethink the relationship between security and performance.  For years, enterprise leaders have felt locked into a trade-off: stronger network security equals slower systems. More firewalls , more controls, and more complexity often come at the cost of agility. But in today’s AI-driven world, where workloads, APIs, and cloud environments move at real-time speed, this compromise is no longer acceptable.…