Re: PCI and banks that use Akamai

[Jeffrey Schiller <jis () MIT EDU>]

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

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