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Fastly named Customers' Choice for Web App and API Protection four years in a row | Fastly

Sean Leach

With this year’s achievement, we are the only vendor to be named a Customers’ Choice in the Gartner Peer Insights™ “Voice of the Customer” Web Application and API Protection report for four years in a row with an average rating of 4.9 out of 5.0 stars.

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Security

Dept. of Know Live: Omar on building secure apps the easy way | Fastly

Omar

Betterment Staff Security Engineer Omar joined hosts Kelly Shortridge and Bea Hughes on The Dept. of Know Live! to chat about why building more modern applications means building secure ones, and how we can get there. In this blog post, Omar shares highlights from the conversation.

Security

Dept. of Know Live: Sounil Yu on DIE security model | Fastly

Sounil Yu

JupiterOne CISO and Head of Research Sounil Yu joined hosts Kelly Shortridge and Bea Hughes on The Dept. of Know Live! to chat about how to make security an enabler of innovation. In this blog post, Sounil shares highlights from the conversation.

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Defense-in-Depth Security for Web Apps | Fastly

Matt Torrisi

While there’s no magic answer to stop all cyberattacks, there are a number of principles used in a defense-in-depth strategy that can be put in place ahead of a possible attack to limit its impact.

Security

Dept. of Know Live! 4 highlights from Rinki Sethi's chat on modern security | Fastly

Rinki Sethi

Former Twitter CISO Rinki Sethi joined hosts Kelly Shortridge and Bea Hughes on The Dept. of Know Live! to chat about what success in modern security means. In this blog post, Rinki shares four highlights from the conversation.

Security

Custom response codes for Fastly WAF | Fastly

Blake Dournaee

With the introduction of custom response codes, our edge cloud network can now pick up response codes from the Fastly Next-Gen WAF and take custom action at the edge — without the need to create advanced rules. That means more customized, more efficient security for our customers.

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Compute

The Dept. of Know Live! web app & API sec. speaker series | Fastly

Christina Nguyen

The Dept. of Know Live! is a virtual speaker series designed to make you think differently about web app and API security. Each episode in March will feature a different guest for a 15-minute interview on some of the hottest topics in security today, followed by a live Q&A. Here’s what to expect.

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With the launch of edge deployment, the Fastly Next-Gen WAF is first in the industry to offer a fully unified web app and API security solution

Sean Leach

The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) protects apps wherever they live: on-premises, in containers, in the cloud, and — as of today — at the edge. This makes it the industry’s first and only unified WAF.

Security

Inside Fastly: a look at our vulnerability remediation process

Sandra Escandor-O’Keefe

In this post, we present a look at our vulnerability remediation and engineering team and how they were able to roll out a recent fix for a QUIC/H2O vulnerability in under two weeks.

Engineering
Security

Open redirects: abuse & recs [Ex.] | Fastly

Fastly Security Research Team

Open URL redirection is a class of web app security problems that make it easier for attackers to direct users to malicious resources. Here are some examples of how they do it and what you can do to prevent it.

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How to Secure your GraphQL

Fastly Security Research Team, Simran Khalsa

There are many benefits to adopting GraphQL, but its security implications are less understood. In this post, we’ll explore those implications and offer guidance on which defaults and controls can support a safer GraphQL implementation.

Engineering
Security

Fastly's 2021 in Review

David Belson

In this post, we’ll take a look back at the past year through the eyes of our edge cloud network to explore what we saw across new protocol adoption, security initiatives, network growth, and more.

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WAF framework measures WAF effectiveness | Fastly

Fastly Security Research Team, Simran Khalsa, + 1 more

Our new WAF efficacy framework provides a standardized way to measure the effectiveness of a WAF’s detection capabilities through continuous verification and validation. Here’s how it works.

Engineering
Security

Log4Shell attacks (CVE-2021-44228) insights | Fastly

Fastly Security Research Team, Xavier Stevens, + 1 more

We’re sharing our latest data and new insights into the Log4j/Log4Shell vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228 + CVE-2021-45046) in this post in order to help the engineering community cope with the situation. We also share our guidance around testing your environment against many of the new obfuscation methods that have been seen.

Industry insights
Security

Log4Shell exploit found in Log4j | Fastly

Fastly Security Research Team, Xavier Stevens, + 1 more

CVE-2021-44228 is a Remote Code Execution vulnerability in the Apache Log4j library being actively exploited. We provide our observations into the exploit and a summary of its impact.

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Engineering

30 Years of Web: Building for Tomorrow

Lee Chen

The web’s infrastructure — and the applications we build on it — must constantly evolve to meet the ever-transforming expectations of modern and future end users. We’ve gathered five lessons today’s builders can use to drive the next three decades of the web.

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Grinch bots penalized w/ enriched security data & our edge cloud platform | Fastly

Brooks Cunningham

In this post, we’ll show how you can use information from an origin response to add an abuse IP address to our penalty box. We've been touting the promise of security at the edge, and this is just one example of what it can do.

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30 Years of Web: Securing Tomorrow

Mike Johnson

To create more secure and resilient web experiences, we must design, build, and execute applications with security top of mind, and consider how the lessons of the past 30 years inform how we think about the future of security.

Industry insights
Security

30 Years of Web: Future-Ready Apps

Jana Iyengar

Many websites today are really applications, and we should be building them as such. To do that, we need application architectures and networks that are capable of supporting fast, secure, and scalable user experiences. We must embrace a more dynamic mindset in how we approach web development and consider the tools we need to get there.

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30 Years of Web: Future Demands

Davin Camara

As we look back to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the website, it’s also worth thinking about the next 30 years. There are a couple of areas where we — as engineers, developers, and builders in general — can champion innovation, mainly around architecture and security.

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