Authentication might be the single biggest hazard for web security over the next decade.
It's not that the fundamentals of authentication are particularly challenging; we've understood the basic principles behind password management, push-based authorization, and device certificates for some time. But managing those at scale, and navigating to a more secure world -- maybe one without passwords someday -- requires a level of investment and focus that is, for most enterprises, a distraction from their core mission.
Akamai has always been about enabling our customers to deliver on the promise of a hyperconnected world, by providing them not just with performance and security at scale, but by offloading the critical, but not core, capabilities into our environment. That started with image and video delivery, grew into whole websites, added SSL (now TLS) management, guarded against DDoS, provided adaptive content management, filtered application attacks, managed bots, and connected internal enterprise apps to users. Along the way, we've integrated into just about every authentication environment imaginable: from cookie and password auth to mutual TLS with push.
Delivering a better Internet for our customers has always been about seeing the common pain points across their businesses, and providing common capabilities that work better at the edge. Akamai's acquisition of Janrain will bring customer identity and access management (CIAM) into that capability set. Akamai CIAM, like most other Akamai capabilities, solves a range of problems that enterprises face, supporting experiences from the most basic to the most complex.
Why does this matter? The biggest challenge in most security solutions is the implementation overhead. Implementing social login can be tricky for an enterprise -- managing your social network APIs, integrating login into your pages, even just keeping track of ..
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