Stories about: Akamai Technologies

These forward-thinking IT managers are working at dismantling the stereotype of the risk-averse security professional-cum-business foe. How? By showing business colleagues they understand company operations and appreciate corporate goals.

Companies that specialize in helping businesses speed delivery of their applications and Web content are increasingly involving themselves in IT security as the continued proliferation of systems-defense technologies has become a potential roadblock to the performance and quality of the services they already provide.

Almost 1.5 million Windows customers downloaded a clean-up tool for the Sasser Internet worm in the first two days after Microsoft began offering the tool, according to Microsoft.