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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.

DevOps
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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.

Product
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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.

Customers
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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.

Security
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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.

DevOps
Engineering

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.

Industry insights
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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.

Engineering
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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.

Product
Engineering

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.

Engineering

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).

Company news
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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.

Edge network
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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.

DevOps
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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.

Security
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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.

Product
Engineering

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.

Security
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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.

Security
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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.

Security
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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.

DevOps
Engineering

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.

DevOps
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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.

Security
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