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Atlassian Confluence OGNL Injection Vulnerability Protection | Fastly
Our Security Research Team has built and deployed a rule to help protect customers of our next-gen WAF against the recently announced Confluence Server OGNL injection vulnerability, CVE-2021-26084.
6 essential features of modern web app & API security tools
Modern applications need modern security tools that include flexible deployment, DevOps support, and strong API protection. Here are the six most important characteristics of modern web app and API security tools.
Legacy security tools: peace of mind at what price?
Companies using an average of 11 web application and API security tools should be able to rest easy, but the vast majority of them report successful attacks are still getting through. These legacy tools aren’t cutting it.
Fastly/Signal Sciences: one year update | Fastly
When we acquired Signal Sciences, we put a stake in the ground as a company that cares about the complete delivery path and making it not just resilient and performant, but inherently secure as well. Here’s our update on that mission.
Introducing right-sized web app and API protection packages
Today, we launched Fastly Secure packages, a unified web app and API security solution that provides “right-sized” protection for any organization at a spend level that works for a variety of budgets.
4 Steps to Centralized Security Tooling
Here are four repeatable steps that will help you pay down your security technical debt, make your apps and APIs more secure, and move you toward consolidated security tooling.
Why don’t your security tools work anymore?
As the internet landscape gets more complex, more API driven, and more distributed, many security and IT professionals are left wondering — why aren’t the security tools that were good enough a few years ago good enough now?
0-100 mph: Boosting App Security
How to accelerate your WAF visibility from 0 to 100MPH
New research shows security tooling is at a tipping point
We released a new report today in partnership with ESG Research that reveals some fascinating insights into the state of web application security tooling.
Request enrichment helps identify user data | Fastly
Requests passing through Fastly can be transformed in many ways. In this example, we’ll show you how to use enriched requests and our next-gen WAF to help you make more informed security decisions.
Introducing Response Security Service
Our new Response Security Service provides direct, 24/7 access to our Customer Security Operations Center to help you prepare for and respond when you suspect an attack.
How to recognize and repel four high-risk attack types
After years of helping protect companies across a variety of industries, we’ve come to recognize four common risk attack types. Here’s how they work and how to counter them.
4 Ways Legacy WAF Fails to Protect Your Apps
The legacy WAF isn’t ubiquitous because it’s the perfect technology. Its success comes down to being mandated, despite four ways it often fails.
Suggestive signals: how to tell good bot traffic from bad
While some bots are benign search engine crawlers or website health monitors, others are on the prowl with nefarious intent, looking to execute account takeovers and compromise APIs. In this post, we’ll look at how to tell them apart in order to allow the good bots and block the bad ones.
Cranelift vetted for secure sandboxing in Compute@Edge | Fastly
Alongside the Bytecode Alliance, Fastly’s WebAssembly team recently led a rigorous security assessment of Cranelift, an open-source, next-generation code generator for use in WebAssembly to provide sandbox security functionality.
Answers to your top Kubernetes security questions
As Kubernetes has become widespread for container orchestration needs, it’s natural for security questions to arise. Here are answers to the Kubernetes questions we hear most often.
Prevent Wasm Compiler Bugs Early | Fastly
We recently discovered a compiler bug in part of the WebAssembly compiler that we use for Compute@Edge, that could have allowed a WebAssembly module to access memory outside of its sandboxed heap. But because of the people, processes, and tools we have in place, the bug was caught and patched on our infrastructure before it was exploited.
More is less: stop adding to your security tool technical debt
Throwing new security tools at new threats results in scattershot protection and builds technical debt. Organizations need uniform protection for applications and APIs, regardless of where they live.
API and ATO Security Challenge Addressed | Fastly
New Fastly next-gen WAF dashboards surface security telemetry from more than 20 new signals for advanced attack scenarios, such as account takeover, credit card validation, and password reset.
Fastly and Okta partner to lock down layer 7
Layer 7 is a primary battleground for web application and API security. Fastly and Okta have partnered together to share threat intelligence, so security and development teams can better protect their systems.
