PartnershipJul 8, 2026, 06:29 AM
Akamai Partners with WWT for AI Security Framework ARMOR
AI Summary
Akamai Technologies announced its selection as a strategic partner for World Wide Technology (WWT)’s AI Readiness Model for Operational Resilience (ARMOR). This collaboration positions Akamai as a foundational security architecture for the "AI factories" being built by WWT and accelerated by NVIDIA. The partnership aims to bridge the gap between AI innovation and security by integrating Akamai’s software intelligence directly with NVIDIA BlueField DPUs, eliminating the "security tax" and enhancing protection against threats like ransomware and DDoS attacks.
Key Highlights
- Akamai selected as strategic partner for World Wide Technology (WWT)’s AI Readiness Model for Operational Resilience (ARMOR).
- Akamai's security architecture will be foundational for WWT's "AI factories" accelerated by NVIDIA.
- Collaboration integrates Akamai’s software intelligence directly with NVIDIA BlueField data processing units (DPUs).
- Aims to eliminate the "security tax" by offloading Akamai Guardicore Segmentation to NVIDIA BlueField.
- Akamai Guardicore Segmentation accelerates ransomware containment by an average of 21.4%, up to 32.6% for large enterprises.
- Akamai API Security monitors AI's "connective tissue" to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive data lakes.
- Prolexic DDoS mitigation provides multilayered defense against volumetric attacks on AI architectures.
- WWT’s ARMOR is a holistic, vendor-agnostic AI security framework across six critical domains.
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