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Join Fastly at Black Hat 2023

Shelly Kolvitz

Black Hat 2023 is just around the corner! Come visit the Fastly booth and join us for exciting presentations and giveaways.

Company news
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Network Effect Threat Report: Uncovering the power of collective threat intelligence

Fastly Security Research Team, Simran Khalsa, + 3 more

Announcing the Network Effect Threat Report, Fastly’s threat intelligence report with insights based on unique data from April to June of 2023

Security
+ 2 more

Cache Hit Ratio (CHR) as a security metric

Peter Teichman

The Cache Hit Ratio has usually been understood as a performance metric, but there are also serious security benefits that come with improving your CHR!

Security
Performance

How to write Rust unit tests for your Compute application

Leon Brocard

Wondering if your edge applications are working? Time to test! In this post, we'll explore how to unit test for a Rust application using Viceroy.

Compute
Edge network

Introducing the 2023 Forrester Consulting TEI Study

Leigh Clancy

Forrester Consulting conducted a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study, commissioned by Fastly in July 2023, to understand the potential return on investment (ROI) that organizations may realize by using Fastly.

Platform
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Back to Basics: OS Command Injection

Fastly Security Research Team, Matthew Mathur

What is an OS Command Injection? In this blog, we'll explore the web application vulnerability, OS Command Injection, and how to prevent it.

Security

Unified Origin Observability at Fastly

Ajay Bharadwaj, Dom Fee

We are pleased to announce that Origin Inspector, Fastly’s turnkey origin visibility product, is now available to Compute customers.

Compute
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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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Fastly Achieves AWS Security Competency Status

Mili Mathews

This designation recognizes that Fastly has demonstrated proven technology and deep expertise that helps customers achieve their cloud security goals.

Company news
Security

Get Better Visibility with Edge Observer, Now in Public Beta

Dom Soegono, Henry Zhang

Over a year ago, we embarked on a journey to build an all-encompassing, flexible interface to centralize visibility and insights across your Fastly account and services. Today, we are excited to bring this new interface, Edge Observer, into public beta - now available to all accounts and customers.

Edge network
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Simpler, Better Pricing with Fastly

Lakshmi Sharma

Starting today we are officially launching simplified, flat-rate packages that get you more across Network Services, Security, and Compute offerings. It’s simple to try and buy Fastly with predictable billing.

Product
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CVE-2023-34362: Progress MOVEit Transfer SQL Injection Vulnerability

Fastly Security Research Team, Simran Khalsa, + 3 more

What you need to know about CVE-2023-34362: Progress MOVEit Transfer SQL Injection Vulnerability

Security

Turning a Fast Network into a Smart Network with Autopilot

Lorenzo Saino, Jeremiah Millay, + 2 more

Learn about Fastly’s new advanced automation that handles more traffic, more efficiently, and see the data from the record-breaking 2023 Super Bowl.

Platform

Malware Verification at the Edge, Reduce Ransomware “Encryption Events”

Liz Hurder, Orlando Barrera II

Edge computing is rapidly transforming how businesses operate, including mitigating security threats. Learn how to get ahead of attackers with Fastly.

Security

Regex in retrograde

Kelly Shortridge

If we want to outmaneuver attackers, then we must progress beyond regex into a more modern era of detection.

Industry insights
Security

Community Spotlight: Una Thompson is Making the Fediverse More Manageable with Jortage

Hannah Aubry

Jortage is a communal project that provides object storage and hosting and deduplicates object storage for pool members, reducing everyone's overall storage costs. Learn how they use Fastly to keep costs low and make the Fediverse faster and more engaging.

Culture
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Announcing Mutual TLS from Fastly

Shane Burgess

We are excited to announce the general availability of Mutual TLS (mTLS) support from Fastly, providing two-way authentication and encryption of network communication.

Security
+ 3 more

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
+ 2 more

Advanced Rate Limiting on Fastly’s Edge

Brooks Cunningham

Use Advanced Rate Limiting with edge deployments of Fastly’s Next-Gen WAF for easier, stronger protection against fraud and abuse.

Security
Compute

How to Deploy Fastly’s Next-Gen WAF in less than 10 minutes

Brooks Cunningham

Two of the main problems people encounter when trying to secure their web and API endpoints is that their security solution is complicated or difficult to maintain, and that the deployment is slow and painful.

Security
Compute