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Cyber 5 Threat Insights

Simran Khalsa, Charlie Bricknell, + 1 more

To gain a broader understanding of the threat landscape during "Cyber 5" weekend, we analyzed attack activities with a particular focus on commerce sites.

Industry insights
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WAF Simulator: Transforming DevSecOps Workflows

Fastly Security Research Team, Simran Khalsa

We're excited to announce Fastly's new WAF Simulator, which simplifies the testing process and provides the following key benefits.

DevOps
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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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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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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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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

Surface and protect authentication endpoints with Login Discovery

Brooks Cunningham

As organizations scale, there is a potential for threats to creep in via an increase in application management and beyond. Learn how Fastly can help you avoid these challenges.

Security
Compute

How we built a better TLS certification authority

Shiloh Heurich

Managing certificates can be a timely process but thanks to Fastly's CA, Certainly, it just got a lot simpler. Take a deep dive into how it came to be.

Security
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Fastly Participates in the EU-US Data Privacy Framework

Owen Kirshner

Fastly is committed to ensuring safe and secure data transfers, which is why we are active participants in the new EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF).

Security
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Back to Basics: Directory Traversal

Fastly Security Research Team, Matthew Mathur

In this post, we'll explore the application vulnerability directory traversal. What is it and how can you protect your apps from it?

Security

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
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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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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