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  • Fastly's Seven Years of Recognition as a Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice

    Kim Ogletree

    Fastly was named a 2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for Cloud WAAP, marking seven consecutive years of recognition driven by customer trust and reviews.

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  • Make Sense of Chaos with Fastly API Discovery

    Lorraine Bellon, Anna Jensen

    Discover, monitor, and secure your APIs with Fastly API Discovery. Get instant visibility, cut the noise, and keep your APIs secure and compliant.

    Security
    Product
  • Teach Your robots.txt a New Trick (for AI)

    Brooks Cunningham

    Control how AI bots like Google-Extended and Applebot-Extended use your website content for training. Update your robots.txt file with simple Disallow rules.

    CDN & Delivery
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  • DDoS in August

    Liam Mayron, David King

    August 2025 DDoS attack trends: Hyperscale clouds are the source for 70% of attacks. Get insights on the latest application DDoS trends to strengthen security.

    Security
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  • CISO Perspective: Q2 2025 Threat Insights Report

    Marshall Erwin

    Explore Fastly's Q2 2025 Threat Report through our CISO, Marshall Erwin's eyes. Uncover bot traffic insights and key security practices.

    Security
    Industry insights
  • Fastly DDoS Protection wins SiliconANGLE TechForward Cloud Security Award

    David King

    Fastly DDoS Protection wins SiliconANGLE TechForward Cloud Security Award after rigorous analysis by 32 industry peers.

    Security
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  • The Truth About Blocking AI, And How Publishers Can Still Win

    Simon Wistow

    Many AI crawlers aren’t following the rules, and robots.txt can’t stop them. Blocking Google’s AI means killing your SEO, but publishers aren’t completely out of options. Edge control is becoming their last real defense.

    Security
    Industry insights
  • AI Bots in Q2 2025: Trends from Fastly's Threat Insights Report

    Matthew Mathur, David King, + 1 more

    Fastly's Q2 2025 Threat Insights Report uncovers how Meta, OpenAI, and others are shaping web traffic and what organizations need to do to stay in control.

    Security
    Industry insights
  • DDoS in July

    Liam Mayron, David King

    July 2025 DDoS attack trends: Fastly's report reveals infrequent but massive enterprise attacks & insights on attack volume, industries targeted, and company size.

    Security
    Industry insights
  • Demystifying Fastly’s Defense Against HTTP Desynchronization Attacks

    Brian Haberman, Sandra Escandor-O’Keefe, + 1 more

    Learn how Fastly's robust architecture and strict protocol parsing defend against HTTP desynchronization attacks, ensuring your web applications are secure.

    Security
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  • Fastly's Resilience to HTTP/1.1 Desynchronization Attacks

    Frederik Deweerdt, Kazuho Oku, + 2 more

    Discover why Fastly's architecture protects against HTTP/1.1 desynchronization attacks, unlike other CDNs. Protect your applications with Fastly's secure platform.

    Security
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  • Make Attackers Cry: Outsmart Them With Deception

    Lorraine Bellon

    Fight cyber attackers with deception! Fastly's Next-Gen WAF introduces a new "Deception" action to outsmart and frustrate attackers, turning the tables on them.

    Security
    Product
  • ToolShell Remote Code Execution in Microsoft SharePoint: CVE-2025-53770 & CVE-2025-53771

    Simran Khalsa, Matthew Mathur, + 1 more

    Microsoft revealed two critical vulnerabilities, CVE-2025-53771 and CVE-2025-53770, actively exploited to compromise SharePoint servers.

    Security
  • DDoS in June

    Liam Mayron, David King

    June’s DDoS report reveals a 250B+ request attack on a High Tech provider and the rise of the Byline Banshee. Get key insights & actionable guidance.

    Security
    Industry insights
  • Taking Back Control: How Publishers Can Push Back on Unwanted AI Scraping

    John Agger

    Take control of AI scraping. Learn how publishers can push back against unwanted data harvesting with Fastly's AI Bot Management & new monetization opportunities.

    Security
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  • Fastly DDoS Protection: Customer-Validated Defense

    David King

    Discover why Fastly's DDoS Protection is the most frequently reviewed solution on Gartner Peer Insights™. See how customer feedback drives our innovation and performance.

    Security
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  • OS Command Injection Explained

    Fastly Security Research Team, Matthew Mathur

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

    Security
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  • Why Simplicity Is Good for Security

    Liam Mayron

    Security shouldn’t be complex. Discover why Fastly’s one-click DDoS tools like Precise Defense make staying protected easier, faster, and more effective, even under pressure.

    Security
  • Tailoring Automated DDoS Protection

    Liam Mayron, David King

    Fine-tune your DDoS protection with Fastly's Precise Defense update. Gain flexibility to allow legitimate traffic while automatically mitigating attacks.

    Product
    Security
  • Fastly AppSec Survey: AI & Security in 2025

    David King, Natalie Lightner

    Explore Fastly's 2025 AppSec survey on AI's impact, budget shifts, and security trends amidst economic changes. Get key insights now!

    Security
    Industry insights
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