While we talk a lot about trust, the systems and processes used to establish trust have been broken or abused time and time again.Remember Operation Aurora. The nation-state sanctioned and sponsored cyberattack that targeted at least 20 different organizations across the globe in 2010. Akamai was one of the companies targeted by Aurora and this attack became a primary driver for change.Mani Sundaram, Chief Information Officer, Akamai and Executive Vice President of Akamai’s Global Services and Support Organization reveals how an enterprise-wide initiative called the zero-trust security model was triggered post the attack. Even after nine years, it is an ongoing process and has an application access model that is quite different from that deployed by a majority of large organizations.After rising through the ranks at Akamai, Sundaram became its CIO last year. He also shares his views on the new role, and confesses that he has stepped into a function “that is all about relationships and credibility.”Excerpts:Operation Aurora was a shock for many organizations. Google publicly disclosed that it had been a victim. The attackers didn't stop with Google — they targeted at least 20 different organizations that included names like Yahoo, Dow Chemical etc. What impact did the attack have on Akamai?We were victims of a fairly large attack when one of our domain administrator accounts was compromised. However, we were fortunate as the attackers didn’t find the particular data that they were looking for. Aurora was the trigger point. The incident made us re ..
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