Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cloud company that powers and protects life online, today released a new report highlighting the increase in ransomware, the adoption of Zero Trust, and the benefits of micro-segmentation – an emerging security practice that breaks up networks into parts and implements granular security policies and controls for individual workloads, applications, and tasks. The State of Segmentation 2023 report found that organizations surveyed globally experienced an average of 86 ransomware attacks in the past 12 months, up from an average of 43 annual attacks two years ago. Security organizations have responded to the recent rise in attacks by implementing Zero Trust and micro-segmentation strategies. In APJ, nearly all (99%) of respondents who reported that they have deployed some form of segmentation have also deployed a Zero Trust security framework. The report is based on input from 1,200 IT and security decision-makers from around the world.