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2024: End of Year Product Release Rewind

Leigh Clancy

We’re always improving the Fastly platform to enable developers, security experts, and more! See an overview of the product releases that we unveiled in 2024.

CDN & Delivery
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The History of DDoS

Natalie Lightner, David King

Discover the impact of DDoS attacks on businesses. Learn how these disruptions can lead to financial losses, damaged reputations, and the importance of prevention.

Security
DevOps

What Fastly saw on election night

Farzam Ebadypour

Learn how voter fatigue and alternative media are changing public engagement with politics and how that impacted election night in the U.S..

CDN & Delivery
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War story: RPKI is working as intended

Job Snijders

Explore the transformative impact of RPKI on the Internet. Discover how collaboration and perseverance drive fundamental changes in routing reliability and security.

CDN & Delivery
Security

2024 US Elections Threat Landscape

David King, Natalie Lightner

With the election nearing, businesses face heightened risks from cybercriminals. Discover strategies to safeguard against phishing, DDoS attacks, and data theft.

Security

Building a better application DDoS solution

Liam Mayron, David King

Fastly DDoS Protection offers rapid deployment and automatic defense against DDoS threats, helping maintain the performance of your applications and APIs in a volatile digital landscape.

Security
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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

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

Enhancing Security Capabilities with VCL

Annie Srivastava, Juan Carlos Murillo

Fastly VCL has the advantage of being easy to learn, and extremely fast and safe to execute at the edge.

CDN & Delivery
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How to choose the right WAF

Ashley Hurwitz

Not all WAFs are created equal, but how can you navigate the complicated market? Find out how to choose the best WAF for your organization.

Security

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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3 Essentials for a High-Impact Live Stream Event

Laura Thomson

Live streaming major events have become a significant part of how audiences experience concerts and sports. Find out the essentials to providing a world-class live stream.

Streaming
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Back to Basics of Automated Attacks: Account Takeover

Arun Kumar, Fastly Security Research Team

Explore account takeover attacks and mitigations including modern authentication with 2FA/passkeys, and anti-bot measures to enhance account security.

Security

Detection as Code with Fastly's WAF Simulator

Simran Khalsa, Fastly Security Research Team

Being able to test and validate rule behavior is critical to a maintainable WAF. With our WAF Simulator, you can validate rules in a safe simulation environment.

DevOps
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It’s free, instant, and yours! Fastly’s free developer accounts are here

Simon Wistow

We’re excited to announce free developer accounts. You can instantly get started and take advantage of the most developer-friendly edge platform in the world.

CDN & Delivery
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Built with Fastly Spotlight: LeakSignal stops GenAI data leaks

Austin Spires, Wesley Hales

Learn about how LeakSignal leverages Fastly's industry-leading edge cloud platform to power its cutting-edge data flow governance solution.

Edge network
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Fastly and Google partner to enhance your privacy while protecting Chrome users from online threats in real-time

Monique Barbanson, Austin Spires

We're excited to announce that Google Chrome is leveraging Fastly Oblivious HTTP (OHTTP) Relay to support the Standard protection mode in Chrome.

Security
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Time’s up! How RPKI ROAs perpetually are about to expire

Job Snijders, Doug Madory

In this post, we'll dig deeper into the mechanics of RPKI to understand how the cryptographic chain contributes to the effective expiration date of a ROA.

CDN & Delivery
Security

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

Fastly drives improved internet routing security with global push to adopt RPKI

Rob Bushell, Job Snijders, + 2 more

Fastly actively supports and participates in IETF, driving network security standards. Learn how we're enhancing routing security and improving industry standards for a safer Internet.

CDN & Delivery
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