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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

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Akamai was not itself a CrowdStrike customer, but does use similar services from outside vendors to help protect its systems. The first thing we did was audit all the solutions we have that have an agent that sits on a machine and has access to an operating system to make sure none of them have auto update, she says.

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Relevant skills for the role include a technical background in IT and a strong working knowledge of IT infrastructure, databases, networks, hardware, and software, along with knowledge of data analytics, change management, vendor management, and leadership and team management skills.

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Q&A: Google’s Seattle-area engineering leader – an Amazon vet – on big growth, remote work and more

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So I started in personalization doing targeted messaging products, then went to support their merchants business, like Seller Central, that created the ability for people to manage their storefronts on Amazon. From there I moved into the fulfillment center, so, picking, packing, shipping, sorting systems.