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Brooks Cunningham

Senior Security Strategist, Fastly

As a Senior Security Strategist at Fastly, Brooks focuses on helping customers deliver performant and secure experiences to their end users. He specializes in fraud and abuse use cases, such as account takeover, gift card stuffing, and inventory denial of service.

  • 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
    + 3 more

  • Protecting Against Scrapers with Fastly Bot Management

    Brooks Cunningham

    Protect your website from scrapers and unauthorized access with Fastly Bot Management. Secure cached content, prevent price undercutting, and protect SEO.

    Platform
    + 3 more

  • Testing Next-Gen WAF Rate Limiting Rule with GitHub Actions

    Brooks Cunningham

    Learn how to test a Next-Gen WAF rate limiting rule using Fastly and GitHub Actions. Prevent DDoS attacks and enforce Terms of Service with this post.

  • Surface and protect authentication endpoints with Login Discovery

    Brooks Cunningham

    As organizations scale, there is a potential for threats to creep in via an increase in application management and beyond. Learn how Fastly can help you avoid these challenges.

    Security
    Compute

  • Advanced Rate Limiting on Fastly’s Edge

    Brooks Cunningham

    Use Advanced Rate Limiting with edge deployments of Fastly’s Next-Gen WAF for easier, stronger protection against fraud and abuse.

    Security
    Compute

  • How to Deploy Fastly’s Next-Gen WAF in less than 10 minutes

    Brooks Cunningham

    Two of the main problems people encounter when trying to secure their web and API endpoints is that their security solution is complicated or difficult to maintain, and that the deployment is slow and painful.

    Security
    Compute

  • Designing Next-Gen WAF Sites for your Organization

    Brooks Cunningham, Travis Sanders

    Flexible options for deploying Fastly’s Next-Gen WAF are critical for getting your security running effectively, quickly, and with the right structure for your organization.

    Security
    + 2 more

  • Grinch bots penalized w/ enriched security data & our edge cloud platform | Fastly

    Brooks Cunningham

    In this post, we’ll show how you can use information from an origin response to add an abuse IP address to our penalty box. We've been touting the promise of security at the edge, and this is just one example of what it can do.

    Security
    + 2 more

  • Request enrichment helps identify user data | Fastly

    Brooks Cunningham

    Requests passing through Fastly can be transformed in many ways. In this example, we’ll show you how to use enriched requests and our next-gen WAF to help you make more informed security decisions.

    Product
    Security
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