Secure Content Delivery

In today's world, more and more business transactions are moving to the Web, including business and consumer e-commerce, financial services, and other transactions requiring the transmission of personal or confidential information. Ensuring the security of these transactions and the data they contain is of the utmost importance.

Secure Socket Layer (SSL) is the industry standard for reliable encrypted and authenticated communications between clients and servers on the Internet. But, SSL processing is extremely slow. The more transactions performed on a Web site, the slower the site becomes. Offloading SSL processing to specialized hardware can help, but increasing infrastructure is difficult to scale and manage. In addition, more infrastructure means more security, such as hardened data centers and dedicated security staff.

Our Secure Content Delivery solution is a highly secure, outsourced solution that addresses the performance and security needs of your SSL content while reducing costs and complexity. It supports the reliable and secure delivery of SSL objects and pages, and runs on a specially dedicated and highly secure section of Akamai's global network.

The Secure Content Delivery offers the highest degree of physical security and is optimized for SSL traffic.

Benefits to your business:

• Security: Akamai's highly secure network meets the highest level of physical, network, software, and procedural security, ensuring that SSL certificates are properly protected, and that objects and pages are securely delivered.
• Increased performance: using our Secure Content Delivery solution can greatly improve secure Web site performance. SSL objects and cacheable content are delivered from servers closer to the end user, thereby avoiding congestion on the Internet. Additionally, the majority of computation-intensive SSL processing is performed on the Akamai network.
• Reduce cost and complexity: traditionally, secure infrastructure solutions require a significant amount of physical and operational security, in addition to specialized hardware, to support the computation-intensive SSL processing. With Secure Content Delivery, the need for costly hardware and dedicated staff is greatly reduced.
• Unlimited scalability: With hardware-based solutions, scaling a Web site infrastructure can be difficult. With our Secure Content Delivery solution, Web sites can instantly scale to meet enterprise growth and varying traffic needs.