Blog Security Combat Rising Account Abuse: Akamai and Ping Identity Partner Up Emily Lyons leads product marketing initiatives across Akamai's Application and API security solutions. She began her career in marketing and technology, holding a variety of roles in both North America and the United Kingdom. She leverages this background to help solve global business challenges, build effective communications, and market purpose-built cloud, networking, and security solutions. Emily works directly with Akamai Product Management, Engineering, and Sales teams. Our partnership with Ping Identity marks the first step in our broader strategy to protect the identity layer. Stopping account abuse starts with smarter identity decisions Account abuse continues to be one of the most persistent and costly forms of fraud facing businesses today. From credential stuffing and fake account creation to account takeover and payment abuse, attackers are finding new ways to exploit the customer identity layer.…