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DDoS attacks grow bigger, but so do responses

Michael Sabbota

DDoS attacks have been growing larger over the past few years. But so has the industry’s response to them. In this post, we take a look at what industry bodies and a modern CDN can do to protect your traffic.

Industry insights
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5 best practices for your TLS configuration

Maria Espada

The TLS Support Engineering team provides support for customers managing one to thousands of certificates. After helping so many customers tailor their DNS and TLS configurations, they have five best practices to recommend.

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Prepare for DDoS attacks: 5 steps to take | Fastly

Gino Lang

Layer 7 attacks that target applications and issue requests that can swamp origin systems often seek to blend into other network traffic and require a more focused defense than Layer 3 and 4 attacks. Here are five best practices you can implement to help prepare for such attacks.

Industry insights
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Signal Sciences named Visionary in 2020 Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls for second year | Fastly

Kevin Rollinson

We believe Signal Sciences’ innovation earned them recognition in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAF, and it’s this kind of innovation that excites us as we merge forces — now that Signal Sciences is part of Fastly.

Product
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Lessons Learned from Side-Channel Attacks

Patrick McManus

The largest category of difficult-to-anticipate security design weaknesses come from side-channel attacks. In this post, we take a tour of some of the more foundational and out-there side channel-related exploits that have afflicted the security conscious over the years.

Industry insights
Security

Fastly and Signal Sciences join forces

Joshua Bixby, Andrew Peterson

Today, Fastly completed the acquisition of Signal Sciences and took a giant step forward toward our vision of modern, unified web application and API security. We will call on our shared view of empowering developers as we chart a path toward building an incredibly secure, performant platform and unlock all-new possibilities, together.

Company news
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Web Application Firewall (WAF) Best Practices

Liam Mayron

Following WAF best practices is imperative to keep your business and customers secure. Learn about new regulations and security tips.

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Fastly to Acquire Signal Science for Security at Scale | Fastly

Joshua Bixby

Security has always been a part of Fastly’s DNA, not just within products, but in our vision of trust and safety as a modern platform. Today, we are pleased to announce that we have announced our intent to acquire Signal Sciences.

Company news
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Hard-earned insights from a pair of secure DevOps pros

Liam Mayron

Fastly CISO Mike Johnson and Brave Software Senior DevOps Engineer Ben Kero share their practical advice for cementing more holistic security practices within your CI/CD pipeline.

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Cloud Security for Developers

Stephen Kiel

If you’re evaluating web application security tools exclusively for their security requirements, you may be missing one of the most essential opportunities to successfully grow your secure DevOps culture: developer-centricity.

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DevOps

Fastly’s security DNA: a look at our culture of safety, privacy, and trust

Dana Wolf

Fastly's heritage of security runs deep — far beyond our portfolio of web application and API security products. Our philosophy of developer empowerment, focus on community, and values-driven culture each contribute to our security DNA in an important way. And we'd like to tell you how.

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TLS 1.3 is faster, more robust, and now available

Sudhir Patamsetti

TLS 1.3 is now available for Fastly customers. The newest version of the TLS protocol, TLS 1.3 is designed to improve the performance and security of traffic served over HTTPS.

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Performance

Why Compute does not yet support JavaScript

Sean Leach

Building our own compiler toolchain allows Compute to be both performant and secure. It also means we have to bring developers’ most-loved language into the fold in the right way.

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WAF & logging integrations added | Fastly

Mandy Sparber, Patrick Francois

Using integrations with BigQuery and Looker, we’ve created 15 chart templates that help you effectively monitor security events on your sites and applications, in real time.

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Observability

Three ways TLS 1.3 protects origin names

Patrick McManus

The newest version of Transport Layer Security, TLS 1.3, is faster, more robust, and more responsive than ever before. Explore three ways it will help HTTPS protect origin names for improved confidentiality.

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5 tips for creating a secure DevOps culture

Kevin Rollinson

Integrating security into your DevOps cycle isn’t something that happens overnight. Here are five tips for building a culture in which secure DevOps can thrive, enabling your team to build secure apps quickly.

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Preventing Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

The Fastly Collective

Learn about the technical details of SSRF, how it was utilized in the Capital One breach, why it’s so critical to understand for today’s cloud-hosted web apps, and how organizations can protect their web applications and APIs from such attacks.

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TLS with Fastly is now easier and more flexible

Blake Dournaee

Fastly now offers two new TLS services for the trust, flexibility, and scalability customers need to bring the best of the internet to life.

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Product

Protecting WebSocket Protocol Apps and APIs with Fastly

The Fastly Collective

The 4.2 release of the Fastly agent introduces WebSocket traffic inspection, enabling customers to extend the coverage of applications, APIs, and microservices protected by Fastly’s Next-Gen WAF to apps and services that utilize the WebSockets protocol.

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Prevent attacks with proof of work | Fastly

Andrew Betts

With attackers using publicly available lists of compromised passwords in an attempt to steal accounts, proof of work is a good way to slow the attackers down.

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