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Chaotic Good: Resilience Stress Tests at the Edge

Kelly Shortridge

Getting started with chaos experimentation? In this post, we’ll walk through a small starter example experiment – verifying basic security assumptions on a website.

Compute
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Creating industry-leading managed security commitments

Liam Mayron, Cody Arnold

Get proactive commitments to your security with Fastly’s industry-first Time to Notify SLA for its Managed Security Service customers.

Security

Six years in a row: Fastly once again named Customers’ Choice for Cloud WAAP

Kim Ogletree

Fastly has been recognized in the 2024 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for Cloud Web Application and API Protection.

Security
Company news

Introducing effortless bot management for a better, safer web

Liz Hurder, Akil Muralidaharan

See how Fastly's Bot Management targets malicious bots to protect your apps and website for a better user experience. Learn more about our bot management capabilities.

Security
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Stay ahead of attackers by pushing your security perimeter to the edge

Blake Dournaee

An effective edge security strategy can provide significant benefits and protect organizations from the continually evolving threat landscape.

Security
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Are APIs the Key to Digital Innovation or a Trojan Horse?

Jay Coley

In this new report, we surveyed 235 IT and cybersecurity professionals across Europe to shed light on the state of API security.

Security
Industry insights

TLS: More secure; always fast

Emmanuel Thompson

This post details the journey of improving the security of TLS private keys and improving the performance and efficiency of TLS handshakes along the way.

Privacy
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PCI DSS v 4.0 Everything to know before Mar 31, 2024

David King

The PCI Security Standards Council announced Version 4.0, the latest iteration forces nearly every organization to update policies, procedures, and more.

Security
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A new level of security called for by the White House and Office of the National Cyber Director

Anil Dash, Luke Wagner

The White House and Office of the National Cyber Director called for the adoption of memory safe languages, and we see a way for existing code be more memory safe as well.

Security
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How to Protect Against Credential Stuffing

Arun Kumar, Fastly Security Research Team

In this post, we will discuss a low latency approach to detect these attacks by co-locating the password hashes in a KV Store, along with Compute on Fastly’s edge.

Compute
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Threshold blocking best practices

Sina Siar, David King

Learn threshold blocking best practices and how it increases your WAF confidence so you can get into blocking mode faster.

Security

BoringSSL to make TLS more secure

Roberto Guimaraes, Wayne Thayer

Replacing OpenSSL with BoringSSL was to reduce the frequency of CVE response and improve the security of our TLS termination system for our customers.

Security
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Cyber 5 Threat Insights

Simran Khalsa, Charlie Bricknell, + 1 more

To gain a broader understanding of the threat landscape during "Cyber 5" weekend, we analyzed attack activities with a particular focus on commerce sites.

Industry insights
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The evolution of blocking

David King, Sina Siar

Flexibility is required for confident blocking decisions that impact as little legitimate traffic as possible. Learn more about the evolution of blocking.

Security
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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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Delivering a better WAF faster

David King, The Fastly Collective

Legacy WAFS can come with a lot of shortcomings, that's why when designing the Fastly Next-Gen WAF, we set out to enable users with these four key benefits.

Security
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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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A guide to protecting your data during the holidays

Ashley Hurwitz

Check out this collected guide on cybersecurity best practices to survive the holiday season with Fastly's Next-Gen WAF.

Product
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8 recommendations to prep for Black Friday weekend with the Next-Gen WAF

Farzam Ebadypour

Downtime during peak shopping seasons can be detrimental to businesses, but with Fastly's Next-Gen WAF you can set yourself up for success.

Product
Security
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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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