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Security that keeps your developers happy

Modern software delivery demands a better approach to security. As the pace of innovation increases, developers need reassurance their applications and services will behave as expected. Security teams need application security solutions that are friction-free and developer friendly, so app developers actually use them. Our security tools foster an environment of trust where developers and security teams collaborate toward their common goal - innovation. 

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Tired of security that drags developers down? Get comprehensive protection for your apps and APIs, empowering your developers to innovate quickly without introducing security gaps.

  • Minimize false positives

    Traditional application security relies on regex rules and tedious manual tuning. Fastly uses unique evidence-based security for proactive protection, even from evolving attacks or zero-day exploits. We analyze the context of every request to determine if it’s truly an attack - saving you from the burden of false positives.

  • Stop bots without CAPTCHAs

    Everyone hates the dreaded CAPTCHA. Fastly Bot Management adapts in real time to stop malicious bots without burdening legitimate users with CAPTCHAs. Stay one step ahead of attackers with sophisticated deception techniques - like decoy pages or simulated responses - that create a more complex defense layer.

  • Deploy in minutes, not months

    Fastly Next-Gen WAF can deploy in minutes or hours, not weeks or months, and changes can be managed instantly via infrastructure-as-code workflows. Your security team can simply flip a switch to gain instant, automatic protection against today’s largest volumetric attacks with Fastly DDoS Protection.

  • Troubleshoot faster with instant insights

    Get real-time, granular visibility into attack traffic and patterns, rule efficacy, and blocked requests to empower your teams to find and fix problems faster. With timely insights and context, your teams can quickly adjust configurations as needed to ensure apps and services remain up and running.

  • Be an innovation hero

    Security should not be a roadblock. Keep developers in their workflows and speed up secure software delivery through integrations with popular security toolchains and workflows for delivery and testing, including Terraform, Splunk, Slack, Github, and more.

  • Protect all your apps and APIs from one platform

    Tap into the power of Fastly's instant global network to protect all of your complex environments. Remove the guesswork, ensuring your apps and APIs are protected - no matter where they reside - with flexible deployment options.

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Modern software delivery demands better security

Traditional application security is slow, reactive, and manual — frustrating developers and stalling productivity at every turn. Fastly security is designed differently from the ground up to be proactive, instant, seamless, and friction-free, for a radically different experience that developers will love.

  • Secure by design

    Mistakes happen, but they don’t need to create chaos. The Fastly platform is resilient and secure by design, with protection built in through isolation and memory safety. Our unique WebAssembly-based environment helps mitigate the impact of severe vulnerabilities and eliminate entire classes of bugs.

  • Smart, adaptable protection

    Fastly Next-Gen WAF detects and blocks malicious traffic with SmartParse, our proprietary contextual detection engine. New threats are blocked automatically with intelligence from the Network Learning Exchange (NLX) feed of anonymized, confirmed malicious activity seen across the Fastly network.

  • Rapid detection and response

    Attacks can happen faster than humans can respond. Fastly’s Adaptive Threat Engine automatically detects, identifies, and mitigates DDoS attacks targeting applications and APIs in seconds. It validates the legitimacy of requests and quickly mitigates malicious activity, even if attackers rotate IPs.

JetBlue protects bandwidth for legitimate users with Fastly's Next-Gen WAF and Bot Management

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"When our security leadership looked at the offerings, Fastly really stood out. The Fastly Next-Gen WAF and Bot Management solutions offer the flexibility, visibility and reliability JetBlue needed to protect its site from attacks and maintain bandwidth for customers."

Randy Naraine

Cybersecurity Architect
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