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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.

Key Benefits

The key benefits of the Fastly Managed Security Service include web application protection and availability, rapid incident response, and cost control with reduced risk. This service provides businesses with peace of mind, knowing that their security performance and maintenance are entrusted to Fastly, allowing them to concentrate on driving business growth and ensuring user safety.

Service Overview

The Fastly Managed Security Service is a comprehensive offering for Next-Gen WAF, DDOS, Bot Management, and Edge Rate Limiting customers who require extensive monitoring of their environments. By partnering with Fastly, businesses can focus on their strategic initiatives and high-impact projects while benefitting from expert security support. Fastly's security team includes a Customer Security Operations Center (CSOC) for continuous monitoring, a Security Research Team for threat intelligence, and a Designated Security Specialist for regular reporting and consultation.

Key Features

The Fastly Managed Security Service includes 24/7 proactive monitoring and mitigation, post-event reports, security reviews, readiness drills, and features from the Response Security Service. Customers benefit from a 15-minute response SLA for critical incidents, direct access to security support, configuration assistance, and a designated security specialist.

Your Partner in Security

Fastly's globally distributed CSOC team, supported by security experts and a Security Research Team, ensures a collaborative and unified monitoring experience for customers. The team's expertise and dedication to providing exceptional security services have positioned Fastly as a leader in the industry, safeguarding major events, retail sales, and breaking news incidents worldwide.

Why Fastly Does it Better

Fastly stands out in managed security services due to its advanced technology, efficiency, expertise, and responsiveness. With a focus on rapid deployment and industry-leading cost savings, Fastly's powerful network architecture empowers businesses to secure websites and apps globally. The SmartParse technology ensures fast threat detection with minimal false positives, while the team's high level of support and expertise has earned Fastly recognition as a Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice. The industry-leading service level agreements further guarantee a reliable and responsive support system for customers.

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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