Continuous monitoring of the Akamai Edge Platform for security vulnerabilities is an integral part of all engineering efforts at Akamai. In addition to our internal vulnerability management program, we engage with third-party assessors to periodically perform external scans of our systems since this is required for compliance with security standards such as PCI DSS and FedRAMP. \r\n We make summary results of these activities available to our customers; however, customers also often request to perform vulnerability scans themselves, either in order to test the security of their web properties served over the Akamai Edge Platform, or sometimes to test Akamai's infrastructure itself. Akamai has established procedures to assist with such assessments, and can accommodate most requests within a framework that avoids negative impact to the rest of our customers. Many customers take advantage of this, and run scans to meet their own compliance goals.…