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Aqua Security and Akamai Forge Strategic Partnership to Secure AI in the Enterprise
Integrated solution delivers AI defense and prompt validation without code changesBOSTON, July 29, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aqua Security, the pioneer in cloud native security, today announced a strategic partnership with Akamai Technologies, the global leader in edge and application security, to deliver an integrated solution that provides full-spectrum protection for AI applications from the AI workload to the edge. This collaboration brings together Aqua’s deep runtime defense Secure AI with
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