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Jim Gilbert

Vice President Product Management

Jim Gilbert is a Director of Product Management at Akamai. He has more than 10 years of DNS service and technology experience and more than 20 years of related experience working on various internet fields such as email infrastructure for ISPs. Jim focuses on authoritative and recursive edge DNS services for the carrier and enterprise markets.

Posts by Jim Gilbert

How to Defend Against Relentless DNS Attacks

May 20, 2024Jim Gilbert and Steve Winterfeld

Enterprise organizations, their employees, and their customers are better protected from cyberattacks when their DNS is properly secured.

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Redundant, Secure, and Open Short Domains: A Vision for Multi-Provider Apex Domain Aliases to Enable DNS Diversity

November 11, 2020Jim Gilbert

Human nature is to seek simpler and convenient ways to do things. One example is the sometimes onerous task of typing a URL into a web browser's address bar. Since users prefer short, easy-to-remember URLs, an internet trend is to use short domains for websites (e.g., edgedns.zone). With short website names, users benefit from the convenience of fewer characters to remember and type.

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Deployment Diversity for DNS Resiliency

May 08, 2019Jim Gilbert

Similar to diverse workforces performing at a higher level, diverse network service deployments perform at a higher level that is increasingly important as the Internet continues to augment our reality. Akamai has 20 years of edge service deployment experience. Akamai's Intelligent Edge has proven that the "edge" requires more than "servers" on the edge. Fast, intelligent, and secure edge services require a mix of approaches, principles, and designs that start with DNS in mind.

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