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Dept. of Know Live: Omar on building secure apps the easy way | Fastly

Omar

Betterment Staff Security Engineer Omar joined hosts Kelly Shortridge and Bea Hughes on The Dept. of Know Live! to chat about why building more modern applications means building secure ones, and how we can get there. In this blog post, Omar shares highlights from the conversation.

Security

Fastly named Leader in commercial CDN by IDC MarketScape | Fastly

Joshua Chase

We are honored to announce that Fastly has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Commercial CDN Services 2022 Vendor Assessment.

Company news
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Migrated developer site to Compute@Edge | Fastly

Andrew Betts

If you build stuff on Fastly, chances are you spend a decent amount of time on our Developer Hub. Last month, we migrated it from our VCL platform to Compute. Here's how we did it and what you can learn from it.

Engineering
Compute

Dept. of Know Live: Sounil Yu on DIE security model | Fastly

Sounil Yu

JupiterOne CISO and Head of Research Sounil Yu joined hosts Kelly Shortridge and Bea Hughes on The Dept. of Know Live! to chat about how to make security an enabler of innovation. In this blog post, Sounil shares highlights from the conversation.

Security

Defense-in-Depth Security for Web Apps | Fastly

Matt Torrisi

While there’s no magic answer to stop all cyberattacks, there are a number of principles used in a defense-in-depth strategy that can be put in place ahead of a possible attack to limit its impact.

Security

Dept. of Know Live! 4 highlights from Rinki Sethi's chat on modern security | Fastly

Rinki Sethi

Former Twitter CISO Rinki Sethi joined hosts Kelly Shortridge and Bea Hughes on The Dept. of Know Live! to chat about what success in modern security means. In this blog post, Rinki shares four highlights from the conversation.

Security

Custom response codes for Fastly WAF | Fastly

Blake Dournaee

With the introduction of custom response codes, our edge cloud network can now pick up response codes from the Fastly Next-Gen WAF and take custom action at the edge — without the need to create advanced rules. That means more customized, more efficient security for our customers.

Security
Compute

Compute@Edge partners growing | Fastly

Emily Friedberg

We’re excited to announce a growing ecosystem of partners who are tapping into our powerful edge cloud network and using Compute to extend their platform to be even closer to customers.

Compute

Business continuity amid the invasion of Ukraine

Mike Johnson, Kim Ogletree

Amid the escalating invasion of Ukraine, the Fastly team is actively monitoring the health, availability, and performance of our edge cloud network along with maintaining close communication with our customers. We remain confident in the resilience and security of our network and products. Our network and products remain performant and fully operational.

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Fastly's observability and monitoring: empowering smart delivery and high performance | Fastly

Dom Fee, Lakshmi Sharma

In this post, we break down our current observability offering and highlight some of the ways DevOps and SRE teams are using Fastly to investigate anomalies, improve performance and up-time, and engage in observability-driven development.

DevOps
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The Dept. of Know Live! web app & API sec. speaker series | Fastly

Christina Nguyen

The Dept. of Know Live! is a virtual speaker series designed to make you think differently about web app and API security. Each episode in March will feature a different guest for a 15-minute interview on some of the hottest topics in security today, followed by a live Q&A. Here’s what to expect.

Security

OSM uses CDN for instant updates | Fastly

Hannah Aubry

OpenStreetMap, a member of our open-source program, moved from a proprietary content delivery network to ours and saw improvements in speed, customizability, and innovation.

Customers
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With the launch of edge deployment, the Fastly Next-Gen WAF is first in the industry to offer a fully unified web app and API security solution

Sean Leach

The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) protects apps wherever they live: on-premises, in containers, in the cloud, and — as of today — at the edge. This makes it the industry’s first and only unified WAF.

Security

Easier edge building with Fastly and Glitch | Fastly

Simon Wistow

Our new partnership lets you deploy Glitch apps to Compute@Edge, making it even easier to build high-quality, customized digital experiences on our edge cloud platform.

WebAssembly
Compute

Inside Fastly: a look at our vulnerability remediation process

Sandra Escandor-O’Keefe

In this post, we present a look at our vulnerability remediation and engineering team and how they were able to roll out a recent fix for a QUIC/H2O vulnerability in under two weeks.

Engineering
Security

Domain Inspector beta now available | Fastly

Dom Soegono

Domain Inspector provides you with real-time and historical views of domain-level traffic and performance. Reduce the need for complex data pipelines, improve load balancing decisions, or reach faster incident response times through our new domain-level visualizations and data sets.

Product
Observability

Fastly Academy: on-demand learning at your fingertips. | Fastly

The Customer Enablement Team

Fastly Academy, our new on-demand learning center, contains lessons for learners of all levels. It’s one more way we’re helping you work — and expand your skills — the way that fits you best.

Customers
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Open redirects: abuse & recs [Ex.] | Fastly

Fastly Security Research Team

Open URL redirection is a class of web app security problems that make it easier for attackers to direct users to malicious resources. Here are some examples of how they do it and what you can do to prevent it.

Security

How to Secure your GraphQL

Fastly Security Research Team, Simran Khalsa

There are many benefits to adopting GraphQL, but its security implications are less understood. In this post, we’ll explore those implications and offer guidance on which defaults and controls can support a safer GraphQL implementation.

Engineering
Security

Bootstrap a Compute project with Fastly Fiddle

Mark McDonnell

The Fastly CLI now supports bootstrapping Compute projects using fiddles made in Fastly Fiddle as a template. This enables users to get a local developer environment up and running very quickly using one of many ready-made solutions from Fastly’s public code example library, which can then be adapted and customized for your own needs.

DevOps
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