Listen "Emergency Podcast - Rene Papesch - CTO at Riskwolf - Akamai's Outage and Its Technical and Financial Implications"
Episode Synopsis
Rene Papaesch, CTO at Riskwolf, jumped onto the pod to have a quick discussion about Akamai's DNS outage and its technical and financial implications.
Some of the things we discussed:
What is a Domain Name Server (DNS) and what happens when it breaks?
What is a Content Delivery Network (CDN) and why are they significant?
The concentration in the services that drive the internet
What actually happened to Akamai
How internet outages and downtimes can create reputational and financial risks
A parametric insurance solution can mitigate some of the financial risks
Some of the things we discussed:
What is a Domain Name Server (DNS) and what happens when it breaks?
What is a Content Delivery Network (CDN) and why are they significant?
The concentration in the services that drive the internet
What actually happened to Akamai
How internet outages and downtimes can create reputational and financial risks
A parametric insurance solution can mitigate some of the financial risks
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