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Re: PCI and banks that use Akamai
From: John Ladwig <John.Ladwig () CSU MNSCU EDU>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:19:40 -0500
I'd like to think it's just static content, but Akamai's been making a big push of late for their "application performance enhancement" capabilities, which means you deploy Javascript and possibly other code (eg Javascript-generating J2EE app server code) out into their cloud for customer-facing apps. I'd guess there's at least one bank somewhere that's decided to do one or the other, or will soon. -jml
Jeffrey Schiller <jis () MIT EDU> 2010-06-14 13:14 >>>
On 06/14/2010 02:11 PM, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:
Urp. The banking sites handle sensitive data through Akamai? What a scary thought... What say the list? Is that an offense worthy of a name-n-shame?
Actually, I would suspect that the banking sites are using Akamai to distribute static content, images, etc. I doubt Akamai his touching anything sensitive. This is a standard thing to do if you need to handle significant load. -Jeff -- ======================================================================== Jeffrey I. Schiller MIT Network Manager/Security Architect PCI Compliance Officer Information Services and Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Room W92-190 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 617.253.0161 - Voice jis () mit edu http://jis.qyv.name ========================================================================
Current thread:
- PCI and banks that use Akamai Flynn, Gary (Jun 14)
- Re: PCI and banks that use Akamai Daniel Robert Adinolfi (Jun 14)
- Re: PCI and banks that use Akamai Valdis Kletnieks (Jun 14)
- Re: PCI and banks that use Akamai Jeffrey Schiller (Jun 14)
- Re: PCI and banks that use Akamai John Ladwig (Jun 14)
- Re: PCI and banks that use Akamai Daniel, Jack (Jun 14)
- Re: PCI and banks that use Akamai Jeffrey Schiller (Jun 14)
- Re: PCI and banks that use Akamai Daniel, Jack (Jun 14)
- Re: PCI and banks that use Akamai John Ladwig (Jun 14)
- Re: PCI and banks that use Akamai Jeffrey Schiller (Jun 14)
- Re: PCI and banks that use Akamai Daniel, Jack (Jun 14)
- Re: PCI and banks that use Akamai John Ladwig (Jun 14)
- Re: PCI and banks that use Akamai Michael Johnson (Jun 14)
- Re: PCI and banks that use Akamai Jeffrey Schiller (Jun 14)
- Re: PCI and banks that use Akamai Joel Rosenblatt (Jun 14)
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- PCI and banks that use Akamai Allison Dolan (Jun 23)