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Fastly Gains Recognition in the 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™

Sean Leach

Gartner names Fastly a Challenger in the 2021 Magic Quadrant for Web Application and API Protection.

Company news

Integrating Security in DevOps

Brendon Macaraeg

Your organization may have operational and cultural roadblocks to overcome when it comes to integrating security and DevOps. These tips can help you ensure a smooth transition to more secure DevOps.

DevOps
Security

Legacy vs next-gen WAF: the differences matter

Brendon Macaraeg

Compare legacy versus next-gen WAFs to see what sets them apart. Determine if your company can benefit from a next-gen approach.

Security

6 essential features of modern web app & API security tools

Julie Rockett

Modern applications need modern security tools that include flexible deployment, DevOps support, and strong API protection. Here are the six most important characteristics of modern web app and API security tools.

Security

Atlassian Confluence OGNL Injection Vulnerability Protection | Fastly

Fastly Security Research Team, Xavier Stevens, + 1 more

Our Security Research Team has built and deployed a rule to help protect customers of our next-gen WAF against the recently announced Confluence Server OGNL injection vulnerability, CVE-2021-26084.

Security

Using cURL to Test Origin Server Responses

Matt Torrisi

Curl, or cURL, is a utility that’s shipped by default on operating systems like MacOS and many Linux distributions that allows you to send an HTTP request to a URL and receive the result. In this post, we’ll walk you through how to use the tool to test an origin server’s response.

Engineering
Performance

Test Compute@Edge locally for efficient development | Fastly

Jim Rainville

Last month, we announced that local testing is now available for Compute. In this blog post, we'll tell you how it works and show you an example.

Product
Compute

Introducing Dark Mode for Fastly's Control Panel

Jennifer Fleming, Luis Flores

We’ve heard your requests and made dark mode the latest control panel design update. You’ll enjoy all the same functionality of light mode, with some key benefits.

Product

Legacy security tools: peace of mind at what price?

Julie Rockett

Companies using an average of 11 web application and API security tools should be able to rest easy, but the vast majority of them report successful attacks are still getting through. These legacy tools aren’t cutting it.

Industry insights
Security

Fastly/Signal Sciences: one year update | Fastly

Dana Wolf

When we acquired Signal Sciences, we put a stake in the ground as a company that cares about the complete delivery path and making it not just resilient and performant, but inherently secure as well. Here’s our update on that mission.

Company news
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Compute: The JavaScript Support you Demanded | Fastly

Sean Leach

With JavaScript now available for WebAssembly and Compute, you can get started faster than ever with a language you already know, while ensuring the speed and security you need in a serverless build environment.

Product
+ 2 more

Introducing right-sized web app and API protection packages

Brendon Macaraeg

Today, we launched Fastly Secure packages, a unified web app and API security solution that provides “right-sized” protection for any organization at a spend level that works for a variety of budgets.

Product
Security

4 Steps to Centralized Security Tooling

Sean Leach

Here are four repeatable steps that will help you pay down your security technical debt, make your apps and APIs more secure, and move you toward consolidated security tooling.

Industry insights
Security

Why don’t your security tools work anymore?

Sean Leach

As the internet landscape gets more complex, more API driven, and more distributed, many security and IT professionals are left wondering — why aren’t the security tools that were good enough a few years ago good enough now?

Industry insights
Security

0-100 mph: Boosting App Security

The Fastly Collective

How to accelerate your WAF visibility from 0 to 100MPH

Security

Who Takes the Gold in the Fastly Games?

David Belson

The Fastly Games compare countries in four data-driven events based on aggregated network traffic: IPv6 adoption, HTTP versions, operating system (OS) versions, and browser versions.

Industry insights
Streaming

New: Compute local testing

Brynne Hazzard

Compute local testing gives you the flexibility to run your work-in-progress applications locally on your laptops, servers, or CI systems, in an environment similar to production, but without the deployment time and process.

Product
Compute

New research shows security tooling is at a tipping point

Brendon Macaraeg

We released a new report today in partnership with ESG Research that reveals some fascinating insights into the state of web application security tooling.

Security

Talking traffic: internet disruptions we saw in Q2 2021

David Belson

During the second quarter of 2021, a number of internet disruptions were observed around the world for a variety of planned and unplanned reasons. Here’s what we saw.

Industry insights

How to configure your Fastly services with Terraform

Mark McDonnell

As you start to build more at the edge, it becomes ever more important to deploy edge logic in the same way you deploy changes to your own applications and infrastructure. Today, we’ll take a step back and look holistically at how to configure, manage, and deploy Fastly services using Terraform.

Engineering
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