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Fastly’s Edge Cloud Industry Reports: A Year in Review

John Agger

Explore our industry reports on edge cloud strategies, addressing performance and security challenges. Unlock innovative solutions for common business challenges.

Industry insights
Edge network

Navigating the Challenges of Online Live Streaming

Hossein Lotfi

Join us as we delve into the realities of live event streaming, highlighting the lessons learned from disruptions and our commitment to delivering reliable viewer experiences.

Industry insights
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Battleground states: News media traffic during the 2024 election debates

Lloyd Tanaka

This blog describes the aggregated traffic in the seven states to news media outlets during the presidential and VP debates.

CDN & Delivery
Industry insights

CISO Insights: 10 modern capabilities to revamp your security

Lloyd Tanaka

Explore essential strategies for updating your security measures. Understand the importance of addressing vulnerabilities and optimizing resources for better protection.

Industry insights
Security

Fastly Instant Purge™: Under 150ms for Over a Decade

Laura Thomson

Since 2011, Fastly has been able to purge content globally in 150ms, we're excited to see other vendors catch up and help create a better internet.

CDN & Delivery
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Security and Bot Management is Crucial for eCommerce During Back-to-School Sales

John Agger

Strengthen your eCommerce site's security to protect customer information and maintain trust with back-to-school shoppers.

Security
Industry insights

Bot Wars: How Bad Bots are Hurting Businesses

Daniel Corbett, James Nguyen

Discover insights from our survey of 500 IT and security leaders on how malicious bots impact businesses. Learn to safeguard your digital assets effectively.

Security
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Active exploitation of unauthenticated stored XSS vulnerabilities in WordPress Plugins

Fastly Security Research Team, Simran Khalsa, + 2 more

We have observed active exploitation attempts targeting three high-severity CVEs: CVE-2024-2194, CVE-2023-6961, and CVE-2023-40000.

Security
Industry insights

Chaotic Good: Resilience Stress Tests at the Edge

Kelly Shortridge

Getting started with chaos experimentation? In this post, we’ll walk through a small starter example experiment – verifying basic security assumptions on a website.

Compute
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WASI 0.2: Unlocking WebAssembly’s Promise Outside the Browser

Tyler McMullen, Luke Wagner

The WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) Subgroup recently reached a significant milestone by voting to launch WASI 0.2, also known as WASI Preview 2.

Industry insights
WebAssembly

Let’s Encrypt Chain of Trust Impact

Shane Burgess, David King

Our commitment to widespread trust allows Certainly to support organizations affected by Let’s Encrypt’s looming changes and beyond.

Industry insights

What can you actually do to reduce the threat of hacks like xz?

Anil Dash

With the recent xz hack in the news, it's crucial to support maintainers of open source projects. Fastly has been doing just that with our open source program, Fast Forward.

DevOps
Industry insights

Are APIs the Key to Digital Innovation or a Trojan Horse?

Jay Coley

In this new report, we surveyed 235 IT and cybersecurity professionals across Europe to shed light on the state of API security.

Security
Industry insights

PCI DSS v 4.0 Everything to know before Mar 31, 2024

David King

The PCI Security Standards Council announced Version 4.0, the latest iteration forces nearly every organization to update policies, procedures, and more.

Security
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The future of device detection on the web

Andrew Betts

As the future of device detection evolves to protect user data, client hints and other solutions rise to meet the needs of developers looking to deliver a better user experience.

DevOps
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BoringSSL to make TLS more secure

Roberto Guimaraes, Wayne Thayer

Replacing OpenSSL with BoringSSL was to reduce the frequency of CVE response and improve the security of our TLS termination system for our customers.

Security
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Fastly can teach you about the Wasm future in just 6 talks

Hannah Aubry

The future of the web is Wasm — here's why.

Industry insights
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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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The evolution of blocking

David King, Sina Siar

Flexibility is required for confident blocking decisions that impact as little legitimate traffic as possible. Learn more about the evolution of blocking.

Security
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When it comes to delivering the first byte, nobody can beat Fastly

Lucas Olslund

Fastly is 29% faster than edgio when it comes to delivering the first byte. It’s representative of overall gains in LCP and performance.

Company news
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