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Domain Inspector beta now available | Fastly
Dom Soegono
Domain Inspector provides you with real-time and historical views of domain-level traffic and performance. Reduce the need for complex data pipelines, improve load balancing decisions, or reach faster incident response times through our new domain-level visualizations and data sets.
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Fastly Academy: on-demand learning at your fingertips. | Fastly
The Customer Enablement Team
Fastly Academy, our new on-demand learning center, contains lessons for learners of all levels. It’s one more way we’re helping you work — and expand your skills — the way that fits you best.
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Open redirects: abuse & recs [Ex.] | Fastly
Fastly Security Research Team
Open URL redirection is a class of web app security problems that make it easier for attackers to direct users to malicious resources. Here are some examples of how they do it and what you can do to prevent it.
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How to Secure your GraphQL
Fastly Security Research Team, Simran Khalsa
There are many benefits to adopting GraphQL, but its security implications are less understood. In this post, we’ll explore those implications and offer guidance on which defaults and controls can support a safer GraphQL implementation.
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Bootstrap a Compute project with Fastly Fiddle
Mark McDonnell
The Fastly CLI now supports bootstrapping Compute projects using fiddles made in Fastly Fiddle as a template. This enables users to get a local developer environment up and running very quickly using one of many ready-made solutions from Fastly’s public code example library, which can then be adapted and customized for your own needs.
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Cloud Deploy simplifies Compute@Edge projects | Fastly
Kailan Blanks
We’re introducing Cloud Deploy, a wizard that helps you start building on Compute by deploying and customizing templates, and sets you up with an automated deployment workflow and best development practices.
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Fastly's 2021 in Review
David Belson
In this post, we’ll take a look back at the past year through the eyes of our edge cloud network to explore what we saw across new protocol adoption, security initiatives, network growth, and more.
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What benefits does "the edge" offer digital publishing? | Fastly
Bridget Lane
By bringing your content closer to the reader, you bypass the conventional cost and rules associated with server space and infrastructure maintenance, and you gain some additional benefits. Let’s explore them.
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Origin Inspector: Monitor origin traffic from the Fastly UI
Dom Fee
Origin Inspector provides you with a dataset and visualizations that offer real-time and historical visibility into responses delivered from your origin servers to our edge cloud. And we’re happy to say that it’s now in limited availability.
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WAF framework measures WAF effectiveness | Fastly
Fastly Security Research Team, Simran Khalsa, + 1 more
Our new WAF efficacy framework provides a standardized way to measure the effectiveness of a WAF’s detection capabilities through continuous verification and validation. Here’s how it works.
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Log4Shell attacks (CVE-2021-44228) insights | Fastly
Fastly Security Research Team, Xavier Stevens, + 1 more
We’re sharing our latest data and new insights into the Log4j/Log4Shell vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228 + CVE-2021-45046) in this post in order to help the engineering community cope with the situation. We also share our guidance around testing your environment against many of the new obfuscation methods that have been seen.
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Log4Shell exploit found in Log4j | Fastly
Fastly Security Research Team, Xavier Stevens, + 1 more
CVE-2021-44228 is a Remote Code Execution vulnerability in the Apache Log4j library being actively exploited. We provide our observations into the exploit and a summary of its impact.
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30 Years of Web: Building for Tomorrow
Lee Chen
The web’s infrastructure — and the applications we build on it — must constantly evolve to meet the ever-transforming expectations of modern and future end users. We’ve gathered five lessons today’s builders can use to drive the next three decades of the web.
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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.
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Lies, stats, debunking Cloudflare | Fastly
Andrew Betts, Laura Thomson, + 1 more
A couple of weeks ago Cloudflare, one of our competitors, claimed that their edge compute platform is roughly three times as fast as Compute@Edge. The false claim is a great example of how statistics can be used to mislead.
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Cyber Five 2021: new normal or back to before times?
David Belson
We analyzed traffic from Thanksgiving Thursday to Cyber Monday in order to understand the traffic, buying, and security trends of ecommerce's big week.
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30 Years of Web: Securing Tomorrow
Mike Johnson
To create more secure and resilient web experiences, we must design, build, and execute applications with security top of mind, and consider how the lessons of the past 30 years inform how we think about the future of security.
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Modern CDN for Digital Publishing
John Agger
The key to customer retention is serving the most up-to-date content instantly, personalizing that content for readers, and ensuring online experiences are responsive, safe, and secure. Here are three ways a modern content delivery network, or CDN, can help you do just that.
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30 Years of Web: Future-Ready Apps
Jana Iyengar
Many websites today are really applications, and we should be building them as such. To do that, we need application architectures and networks that are capable of supporting fast, secure, and scalable user experiences. We must embrace a more dynamic mindset in how we approach web development and consider the tools we need to get there.
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30 Years of Web: Future Demands
Davin Camara
As we look back to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the website, it’s also worth thinking about the next 30 years. There are a couple of areas where we — as engineers, developers, and builders in general — can champion innovation, mainly around architecture and security.
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