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Securing Applications with Fastly's NLX Preemptive Security Layer

Stop attackers before they strike

Fastly's Network Learning Exchange (NLX) proactively identifies and flags malicious IP addresses, allowing organizations to take action before any damage is inflicted. Leveraging insights from the NLX, which preemptively flags 54% of attack traffic, Fastly provides a preemptive security layer for its Next-Gen WAF customers. This preemptive approach offers visibility at scale into global attack landscapes, enabling organizations in various industries to defend against malicious actors before they can strike.

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Fastly DDoS Protection: Automatically Mitigate Disruptive and Distributed Attacks

Smarter, automatic mitigation

Fastly DDoS Protection provides a dynamic, proactive, and automatic solution for detecting, evaluating, and reacting to DDoS attacks without requiring manual intervention. This ensures that your website and mobile apps remain performant and available even during attacks, offering round-the-clock protection.

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Enhance Your Security Capabilities with Fastly Managed Security Service

Introduction

The Fastly Managed Security Service is designed to empower businesses by allowing Fastly to operate and maintain their security products. This service ensures the continuous monitoring and proactive mitigation of attacks for Next-Gen WAF customers. By leveraging Fastly's global team of security experts, businesses can focus on core competencies, strategic initiatives, and high-impact projects while keeping their applications and APIs fully protected.

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Enhancing API Security with GraphQL Inspection by Signal Sciences

Visibility and Protection for Your GraphQL APIs

The advancement in API development has revolutionized the way dynamic applications are created. Organizations are now looking for more efficient ways to accelerate release cycles, transforming the CI/CD pipeline. While REST and SOAP have been dominant in API development, GraphQL is gaining popularity for its speed and specificity. Fastly Next-Gen WAF, powered by Signal Sciences, offers advanced protection for applications, APIs, and microservices. With GraphQL Inspection, the coverage over APIs is expanded, accommodating various architectures and specifications.

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Fastly: Enhancing Digital Experiences with Modern Technology and Security Solutions

Fastly's Complete Portfolio

Fastly offers a diverse portfolio designed to ensure websites, applications, and services can seamlessly handle user demands. The focus is on performance, personalization, security, and scalability to support growth. The global range of products resolves complex technical challenges, allowing you to concentrate on growth and differentiation, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, flexibility, and observability of your apps and services.

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Unleash the Power of Fastly's Managed CDN for Enhanced Performance and Maximum Control

Enhanced Performance & Predictability

Fastly's Managed CDN (mCDN) offers an array of benefits to enhance performance and predictability for your network. By deploying Fastly's edge cloud hardware and software into your infrastructure at locations of your choosing, you can eliminate storage space constraints, reduce origin load, and improve mobile performance. The mCDN provides extended origin traffic predictability as your data is stored and maintained on dedicated servers, ensuring consistent and reliable delivery to your end users.

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Fastly: Optimizing Performance and Security on a Global Scale

Top Reasons to Choose Fastly Over Cloudflare

Fastly offers superior performance, configurability, reliability, added value, improved security posture, and superior support compared to Cloudflare. With a modern network built for efficiency and high capacity POPs, Fastly ensures faster Time to First Byte (TTFB), lower latency, and lower costs. Additionally, Fastly's custom configuration options allow for fine-tuning of CDN settings, instant purging of stale content, and resilience in network infrastructure. Fastly does not gate features and provides full platform power to all customers, along with 100% real-time streaming logs. Their Next-Gen WAF and Bot Management solutions enhance security through accurate threat detection and a precision-based tuning process. Moreover, Fastly delivers exceptional customer support with rapid response times and a high CSAT score, ensuring no billing surprises and a focus on customer satisfaction.

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Ensuring Compliance and Reporting Violations: Fastly's Acceptable Use Policy

Introduction to Acceptable Use Policy

Fastly's Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) outlines the guidelines for users utilizing Fastly's services. Any changes made to the AUP are duly posted on the website along with notifications of updates. The AUP was last modified on May 20, 2016, and is set to be effective from June 19, 2016. Users must adhere to the AUP, available at https://docs.fastly.com/changes/, and comply with Fastly's terms of service.

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Fastly Network Services: Empowering Digital Performance and Security

Fastly's Superior Infrastructure and Performance

Fastly stands out with its innovative approach to network services, offering exceptional infrastructure and performance capabilities. Unlike Edgio's CDN, Fastly is built on a single network, ensuring streamlined operations and enhanced security. Fastly's network accelerates web and app performance, delivering real-time features and faster time to first byte (TTFB) compared to Edgio. With Instant Purge™ technology, Fastly can cache more, purge instantly, and achieve a remarkable 29% faster TTFB, showcasing its superior performance capabilities.

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Fastly Support Plans: Industry-Leading Technical Support for Your Edge Cloud Platform

The Importance of Fastly Support

Fastly offers industry-leading technical support tailored for customers using their edge cloud platform. Built by developers for developers, Fastly's support team understands the specific needs of clients with a proactive and transparent approach. From the initial implementation to ongoing optimization, Fastly support personnel are available at every step to ensure a smooth experience for users.

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