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WAF Simulator: Transforming DevSecOps Workflows
Fastly Security Research Team, Simran Khalsa
We're excited to announce Fastly's new WAF Simulator, which simplifies the testing process and provides the following key benefits.
Try Fastly for free through AWS Marketplace
Mili Mathews
It’s now easier than ever to try Fastly CDN through the AWS Marketplace with a no-commitment free account.
Fastly Control Panel's new and improved billing data
Jonathan Speek, Gomathi Rajesh
The Fastly team has been working hard on improving the Fastly Control Page, including the new and improved billing and plan usage dashboards.
Patch that Vuln! Identify, Triage, and Qualify CVEs
Fastly Security Research Team, Simran Khalsa
Vulnerabilities are an unfortunate inevitability. However, when using a WAF there are options for your security teams while waiting for a patch.
It's now easier than ever to write Fastly VCL
Dora Militaru, Leon Brocard
After last year's release of our Visual Studio Code extension, Fastly VCL, we have an exciting upgrade, to make it even easier.
Preventing outages with resilient architectures
Laura Thomson, Inés Sombra, + 1 more
Fastly’s resilient architecture principles prevent outages, mitigate severity, and deliver on our availability promises without compromising performance.
How Fastly Protects its customers from Massive DDoS threats including the novel Rapid Reset attack
Frederik Deweerdt, Marcus Barczak, + 2 more
The Rapid Reset DDoS attack did not affect Fastly traffic because we can automatically detect and defend against attacks that others can’t.
Building a Resilient Database for Fastly's CA
Prachi Jain
Learn about Certainly’s database architecture which allows for efficient storage and retrieval of certificate data.
Don’t Let Your CDN Get in the Way of Your Continuous Development Needs
The Fastly Collective
Continuous integration is the process of completely automating code commit and test practices, thereby avoiding a manual workflow that is inefficient and subject to human error.
Yes, of course we’re faster. But we’re also more secure.
Lakshmi Sharma
Stop choosing between speed and security. Here’s how Fastly customers get better security AND improve performance (and reduce complexity and save money too).
Building in Real-Time with Pushpin
Ashley Vassell
We are excited to announce that Pushpin is now part of the Fast Forward program! It acts as a proxy server that pins client connections open, making it easy to build real-time API endpoints.
ETags: What they are, and how to use them
Leon Brocard
How to optimize your ETags to speed up your site and reduce calls to your origin without requiring significant code refactoring or content overhaul.
Designing Next-Gen WAF Sites for your Organization
Brooks Cunningham, Travis Sanders
Flexible options for deploying Fastly’s Next-Gen WAF are critical for getting your security running effectively, quickly, and with the right structure for your organization.
Introducing Config Store: storing and updating configuration data at the edge just got better
MJ Jones
Config Store is a low-latency, key-value data store. It simplifies storing configuration data at the edge allowing you to deliver faster app experiences.
Introducing Cloud WAF Terraform Support
Liam Mayron
Terraform, from HashiCorp, enables DevOps teams to deploy cloud infrastructure as code. Fastly supports Terraform across our product lines and today we’re excited to share enhancements to our Next-Gen WAF Terraform provider for our Cloud WAF deployment model which will further streamline operations for our secure DevOps users.
Is it time for ECDSA certificates?
Shane Burgess
For 40 years, RSA certificates have been the industry standard for Transport Layer Security (TLS). But we’re seeing a shift – especially as the prevalence of high-traffic cyber attacks continues to grow.
TLS Key Size: Why Bigger isn't Always Better | Fastly
Wayne Thayer
TLS key size has a recommended length of 2048 bits, but that does not mean you can not go bigger or smaller. In this post, we explore the various TLS key sizes by examining the function of the TLS certificate and the cryptographic operations used by TLS.
Syntax highlight Fastly VCL files in Visual Studio Code
Leon Brocard
With Fastly’s new Visual Studio Code extension, Fastly Varnish Configuration Language (VCL), you can now syntax highlight Fastly VCL code.
Using Client Hints to Detect Disparities
Fastly Security Research Team, Simran Khalsa
Learn how User-Agent Client Hints work, explore privacy-related features and concerns, and how the partial adoption and incompleteness of this emerging standard can be used to detect behavior disparities.
Secure multi-cloud environments: Enterprise journey to the cloud
Jay Coley
As organizations go through a digital transformation of their processes and how they engage with their customers, they are often ready for a multi-cloud environment.
