via Channel Life Australia
Akamai has been selected as a strategic partner for World Wide Technology's AI Readiness Model for Operational Resilience. The partnership places Akamai within the security architecture used in AI systems developed by World Wide Technology and supported by NVIDIA.
The agreement combines Akamai's security products with World Wide Technology's vendor-neutral framework for securing artificial intelligence deployments. The framework covers governance, risk and compliance, model security, secure AI operations, infrastructure security, data protection and secure software development lifecycle processes.
World Wide Technology, often known as WWT, said its ARMOR model is designed to give companies a structured approach to AI security as they expand their use of large language models and other AI tools. Akamai's role focuses on network segmentation, API security and distributed denial-of-service protection.
Partner model
The partnership also reflects a broader pattern in the AI market, where infrastructure, networking and security vendors are building joint reference architectures to win enterprise spending. Rather than selling standalone tools, vendors are increasingly aligning products within common deployment models that customers can adopt more quickly.
For WWT, which works with large enterprise, service provider and public sector customers, the model provides a way to package AI security guidance across multiple domains. For Akamai, the selection offers a route into AI deployments assembled through WWT and linked to NVIDIA hardware.