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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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