Akamai Named a Microsegmentation Leader

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    "title": "Akamai Named a Microsegmentation Leader",
    "excerpt": "CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 18, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As microsegmentation plays an increasingly critical role in organizations’ broader security initiatives, Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) today announced it was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Microsegmentation Solutions, Q3 2026 report. Forrester evaluated 10 total vendors in the microsegmentation space against 25 criteria. Akamai received the highest scores possible in asset discovery, flow enrichment, visualization, policy administration, public cloud networking enforcement, administrative experience, Zero Trust network access integration, exposure reporting, threat detection and response, innovation, and supporting services and offerings criteria. The report notes, “Microsegmentation once fit squarely in the realm of on-premises network security and was often considered an undertaking for organizations at higher levels of Zero Trust maturity. As resilience becomes more of a strategic focal point for security and risk pros, microsegmentation can and should play a larger role in organizations’ broader security initiatives, because advancements in the ease of deployment and operation have made microsegmentation suitable for a wider range of organizations, and it can provide important capabilities outside of network security.” Forrester writes that “Reducing toil is an objective that permeates cybersecurity and is particularly...",
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