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Fastly's Seven Years of Recognition as a Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice
Kim Ogletree
Fastly was named a 2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for Cloud WAAP, marking seven consecutive years of recognition driven by customer trust and reviews.
Company news+ 2 more
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The Truth About Blocking AI, And How Publishers Can Still Win
Simon Wistow
Many AI crawlers aren’t following the rules, and robots.txt can’t stop them. Blocking Google’s AI means killing your SEO, but publishers aren’t completely out of options. Edge control is becoming their last real defense.
SecurityIndustry insights
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Unparalleled Performance: Bring Your C++ Logic to the Edge
Kat Marchán, Sy Brand
Bring your C++ logic to the edge with the Beta Fastly Compute SDK. Achieve unparalleled, near-native performance, low-latency, and enhanced security via WebAssembly (Wasm).
Engineering+ 4 more
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Deploy for Performance: Fastly’s Principles of Infrastructure Diversity and Soft Control
Brian Haberman
Discover Fastly's core resilience principles: Infrastructure Diversity prevents outages, and Soft Influence optimizes traffic for peak performance.
Performance+ 2 more
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Mitigating DDoS attacks faster and with even more accuracy
Liam Mayron, David King
Learn how Fastly's Adaptive Threat Engine update for DDoS Protection boosts mitigation accuracy and reduces Mean Time to Mitigation by 72% for the holidays.
SecurityProduct
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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+ 2 more
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PCI DSS 4.0 Demystified
Lorraine Bellon
Learn about the latest updates in PCI DSS 4.0 standards, including new requirements for security, compliance, and risk management.
Industry insights+ 2 more
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Your API Catalog Just Got an Upgrade
Lorraine Bellon, Anna Jensen
Discover, monitor, and secure your APIs with Fastly API Discovery. Get instant visibility, cut the noise, and keep your APIs secure and compliant.
SecurityProduct
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Rewriting HTML with the Fastly JavaScript SDK
Sy Brand
Boost web performance with Fastly’s JS SDK v3.35.0. Use the new streaming HTML rewriter to customize, cache, and transform pages faster and more efficiently.
Compute+ 4 more
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Increasing the accessibility of managed security services
Cody Arnold
Make world-class protection accessible. Fastly’s new Managed Security Professional delivers 24/7 expert defense for your most critical apps and APIs.
ProductSecurity
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Outages, Attacks, and a Need for Resilience
Austin Spires
Cloud outages are a stark reminder of our digital economy's fragility. Learn how Fastly mitigated a major traffic failover and concurrent DDoS attacks with zero disruption.
CDN & Delivery+ 4 more
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Why the Future of Streaming Lives at the Edge
John Agger, Ashley Hurwitz
The future of streaming lives at the edge. Explore how Fastly reduces latency, boosts performance, and unlocks sustainable content delivery for media companies.
Edge network+ 3 more
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Best WAF Solutions - 2025/2026
Natalie Griffeth
Discover the best WAF solutions for 2026. Compare Fastly, Cloudflare, Akamai, Imperva, F5, Fortinet and more for web app, API and microservice protection.

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Best Bot Management Solutions 2025 - 2026
Natalie Griffeth
Discover the top bot management solutions for stopping scraping, credential stuffing, API abuse and AI-driven bot attacks.

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Bot Protection: Guide to bots, bot attack types and how to stop them
Natalie Griffeth
Learn how bot protection works, the difference between good and bad bots, common bot attack types and the best methods to stop malicious bots.

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DDoS in February
Arun Kumar, David King, + 1 more
Fastly's February 2025 DDoS report reveals a 285% month-over-month surge in DDoS attacks. Learn about key trends, targeted industries, and actionable security guidance.
SecurityIndustry insights
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How hacker groups like Dark Storm leverage botnets
David King
Explore the evolving threat of botnet attacks, including insights on how hacker groups like Dark Storm operate.
Industry insightsSecurity
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DDoS in April
Liam Mayron, David King
DDoS April 2025 report: US attacks surge. Get key insights, traffic trends, and actionable security guidance. Protect your apps now!
Security
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DDoS in May
Liam Mayron, David King
DDoS May 2025 report: 2 new attacks every minute. Get key insights, traffic trends, and actionable security guidance.
Security
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Detection to Mitigation: Ensuring Efficacy Against DDoS Attacks
Liam Mayron, David King
Fastly's DDoS Protection update, Attack Insights, offers detailed event and rule info to verify mitigation efficacy and boost application security.
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