Mesh WiFi specialist Plume has made another move to boost its security credentials in the home, this week announcing a deal with Akamai to provide a joint offering to operators looking to launch smart home and smart business services – sharing customers and both sales and marketing teams. The main thrust of the partnership is on the software and services side. Akamai’s attack mitigation services, which prevent websites being taken offline by immense distributed denial of service (DDoS) and traffic routing abuses, have a stellar reputation, but they are mainly known in the firm’s content delivery network (CDN) core market, not in the more conventional cybersecurity realm. By this, we mean the sorts of security services offered to small and…