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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.

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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

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.

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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.

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Fastly's 2021 in Review

David Belson

In this post, we’ll take a look back at the past year through the eyes of our edge cloud network to explore what we saw across new protocol adoption, security initiatives, network growth, and more.

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Log4Shell attacks (CVE-2021-44228) insights | Fastly

Fastly Security Research Team, Xavier Stevens, + 1 more

We’re sharing our latest data and new insights into the Log4j/Log4Shell vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228 + CVE-2021-45046) in this post in order to help the engineering community cope with the situation. We also share our guidance around testing your environment against many of the new obfuscation methods that have been seen.

Industry insights
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WAF framework measures WAF effectiveness | Fastly

Fastly Security Research Team, Simran Khalsa, + 1 more

Our new WAF efficacy framework provides a standardized way to measure the effectiveness of a WAF’s detection capabilities through continuous verification and validation. Here’s how it works.

Engineering
Security

Log4Shell exploit found in Log4j | Fastly

Fastly Security Research Team, Xavier Stevens, + 1 more

CVE-2021-44228 is a Remote Code Execution vulnerability in the Apache Log4j library being actively exploited. We provide our observations into the exploit and a summary of its impact.

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Engineering

30 Years of Web: Building for Tomorrow

Lee Chen

The web’s infrastructure — and the applications we build on it — must constantly evolve to meet the ever-transforming expectations of modern and future end users. We’ve gathered five lessons today’s builders can use to drive the next three decades of the web.

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Grinch bots penalized w/ enriched security data & our edge cloud platform | Fastly

Brooks Cunningham

In this post, we’ll show how you can use information from an origin response to add an abuse IP address to our penalty box. We've been touting the promise of security at the edge, and this is just one example of what it can do.

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30 Years of Web: Securing Tomorrow

Mike Johnson

To create more secure and resilient web experiences, we must design, build, and execute applications with security top of mind, and consider how the lessons of the past 30 years inform how we think about the future of security.

Industry insights
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30 Years of Web: Future-Ready Apps

Jana Iyengar

Many websites today are really applications, and we should be building them as such. To do that, we need application architectures and networks that are capable of supporting fast, secure, and scalable user experiences. We must embrace a more dynamic mindset in how we approach web development and consider the tools we need to get there.

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30 Years of Web: Future Demands

Davin Camara

As we look back to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the website, it’s also worth thinking about the next 30 years. There are a couple of areas where we — as engineers, developers, and builders in general — can champion innovation, mainly around architecture and security.

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Subresource monitoring with Compute

Fastly Security Research Team

Compute, our serverless compute environment, can be used to solve headaches dealing with attackers looking to modify and manipulate resources. In this post, we tell you how.

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Compute

Preventing SSRF: Apache CVE-2021-40438 | Fastly

Fastly Security Research Team

Our Security Research Team provides guidance on how to address CVE-2021-40438, a vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server version 2.4.48 and earlier, by patching impacted version(s) and enabling a new templated rule to prevent exploitation.

Engineering
Security

Protect against Apache vulnerability | Fastly

Fastly Security Research Team

The recent Apache HTTP Server vulnerability (CVE-2021-41773) is reportedly being exploited in the wild. Fastly already detects this vulnerability, but our next-gen WAF customers can also create a rule to block exploitation.

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DevOps Practices Primed to Combat Threats | Fastly

Brendon Macaraeg

Organizations implementing DevOps practices often sacrifice security for speed, exposing them to potential threats. In reality though, many DevOps practices are already primed for security initiatives.

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DevOps

The Importance of Securing Applications & Security in DevOps

Julie Rockett

Forrester’s 2021 Annual State of Application Security Report stresses the need for updated application security tools that can be easily integrated into development plans and architecture.

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DevOps

Integrating Security in DevOps

Brendon Macaraeg

Your organization may have operational and cultural roadblocks to overcome when it comes to integrating security and DevOps. These tips can help you ensure a smooth transition to more secure DevOps.

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Security

Legacy vs next-gen WAF: the differences matter

Brendon Macaraeg

Compare legacy versus next-gen WAFs to see what sets them apart. Determine if your company can benefit from a next-gen approach.

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