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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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Don’t just take our word for it — Forrester says that Fastly Compute is a “Leader”

Anil Dash

The report recognizes Fastly as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Edge Development Platforms, Q4 2023.

Company news
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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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Meet the new Fastly Control Panel

Brian Clay, Jonathan Speek

We're excited to announce an all-new Fastly Control panel, revamped for an improved and simplified user experience.

Company news
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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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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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Fastly is faster at time to first byte. It makes a difference.

Lucas Olslund

Fastly is 43% faster to first byte (TTFB) than Akamai CDN, and 32% faster than other CDNs, and it’s representative of overall gains in LCP and performance.

Company news
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Kubernetes at the speed of Fastly

Hannah Aubry

Kubernetes, the open source container orchestrator, is synonymous with scaling in the cloud — so where do they go when they need to scale themselves? Fastly! Learn how we’re helping get Kubernetes binaries into the hands of developers all over the world, at the speed of Fastly.

Performance
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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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Thriving amidst chaos: Managed security tips for Black Friday weekend

Liam Mayron, David King, + 1 more

Struggling with the chaos of the Black Friday weekend? A Managed Security Provider can alleviate a lot of the stress that comes with the busy shopping season.

Security
Performance
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Preventing Gift Card Fraud with the Next-Gen WAF

Aneel Dadani

Gift card scamming has become a problem at the scale of hundreds of millions of dollars per year, but it’s not just something for consumers to worry about.

Security
Product

Stronger security with a unified CDN and WAF

Brix Gomez, Mary Joseph

As you prepare for the Black Friday shopping weekend, we can help to increase your security posture with the Fastly suite of products.

Security
Product

Firefox and Fastly take another step toward a privacy upgrade for the internet

Jana Iyengar

Fastly and Mozilla are taking another important step toward a more secure and private internet with Firefox’s adoption of Fastly as an Oblivious HTTP (OHTTP).

Company news
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Better ecommerce experiences built on Fastly

Ashley Hurwitz

As an ecommerce business, your customers expect secure, speedy, and seamless shopping experiences. Learn how Fastly can help you with these customer stories.

Customers
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CVE-2023-30534: Insecure Deserialization in Cacti prior to 1.2.25

Fastly Security Research Team, Matthew Mathur

We have discovered two instances of insecure deserialization in Cacti versions prior to 1.2.25, tracked as CVE-2023-30534.

Security

Enhanced Monitoring for Fastly's CA

Jeff Fiser

A trusted certification authority should employ comprehensive logging and monitoring -- which is what we strived for when creating Certainly.

Product
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Attention Aussie and Kiwi DevSecOps teams: Fastly Forward is back

Sianne Chen, Derek Rast

Fastly Forward is back, and you’re invited! Join us for the latest trends and innovations driving digital experience.

Company news
Events

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