1 SmartNews: Akamai Case Study Akamai Proactively Protects Leading Global News Company Founded in 2012, SmartNews is committed to delivering quality information from around the world to the people who need it. The corporate engineering team manages internal SmartNews systems. The team’s key missions are to improve efficiency throughout the company, using engineering techniques to ensure that security defenses are sufficient to protect the company’s networks and users. “SmartNews has a dual internal network for redundancy and each network has a separate Internet connection,” says Masato Wada from the engineering team. “Both Internet connections used the recursive DNS server provided by the ISP . But there was a tendency for the DNS server not to switch over very well when switchi

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