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David King

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Security

David King is a Product Marketing Manager for Fastly's Security Products.

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  • DDoS in December 2025

    Liam Mayron, David King, + 1 more

    Learn how sophisticated Layer 7 and network DDoS attacks evolved in December 2025, including the year’s largest attack and mitigation strategies.

    Security
    Industry insights

  • Streamlining User Experiences While Fighting Bots

    David King, Daniel Corbett

    Streamline user experiences and fight bots with Fastly's new embedded challenges for Bot Management.

    Product
    Security

  • DDoS in November

    David King, Liam Mayron

    DDoS attackers were largely absent on Black Friday 2025. Fastly’s latest report reveals why, and what the shifting attack patterns mean for your apps and APIs.

    Security
    Industry insights

  • CISO Insights: 10 modern capabilities to revamp your security

    David King

    Explore essential strategies for updating your security measures. Understand the importance of addressing vulnerabilities and optimizing resources for better protection.

    Industry insights
    Security

  • Three application security trends to monitor in 2025

    David King

    Discover how cybersecurity professionals are adapting to a rapidly changing landscape. Explore insights on growth, consolidation, and automation in security strategies.

    Security
    Industry insights

  • From AI Crawlers to Headless Bots: How Automated Traffic is Changing the Web

    David King, Natalie Griffeth

    Bots now drive nearly a third of web traffic. Learn how AI crawlers and headless bots are reshaping security, performance, and business decisions.

    Security
    Industry insights
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  • 3 Costly Mistakes in App and API Security and How to Avoid Them

    David King, Ashley Hurwitz

    Avoid costly app and API security mistakes. Learn how to streamline WAF evaluation, estimate TCO, and embrace agile development for optimal security.

    Security
    DevOps

  • How to Control and Monetize AI Bot Traffic Using Fastly and TollBit

    David King, Lorraine Bellon

    Monetize AI bot traffic! Fastly's Bot Management and TollBit have teamed up to offer granular control, performance, and flexibility to manage bots & unlock new revenue.

    Security
    + 2 more

  • 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.

    Security
    Product
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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.

    Security
    Industry insights

  • 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 insights
    Security

  • 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

  • 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.

    Security
    Product

  • Building a better application DDoS solution

    Liam Mayron, David King

    Fastly DDoS Protection offers rapid deployment and automatic defense against DDoS threats, helping maintain the performance of your applications and APIs in a volatile digital landscape.

    Security
    + 2 more

  • DDoS in September

    Liam Mayron, David King, + 1 more

    Fastly's September 2025 DDoS report details modern application attacks. Get insights and guidance to strengthen your security initiatives.

    Security
    Industry insights

  • DDoS in August

    Liam Mayron, David King

    August 2025 DDoS attack trends: Hyperscale clouds are the source for 70% of attacks. Get insights on the latest application DDoS trends to strengthen security.

    Security
    + 2 more

  • AI Bots in Q2 2025: Trends from Fastly's Threat Insights Report

    Matthew Mathur, David King, + 1 more

    Fastly's Q2 2025 Threat Insights Report uncovers how Meta, OpenAI, and others are shaping web traffic and what organizations need to do to stay in control.

    Security
    Industry insights

  • Fastly DDoS Protection wins SiliconANGLE TechForward Cloud Security Award

    David King

    Fastly DDoS Protection wins SiliconANGLE TechForward Cloud Security Award after rigorous analysis by 32 industry peers.

    Security
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  • DDoS in July

    Liam Mayron, David King

    July 2025 DDoS attack trends: Fastly's report reveals infrequent but massive enterprise attacks & insights on attack volume, industries targeted, and company size.

    Security
    Industry insights