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Securing Your Modern Web Experience with Fastly Bot Management

Fastly Bot Management Solution Overview

Fastly's Bot Management solution offers deep bot visibility and protection for today's modern web environment. It is designed to stop bots, not innovation, by eliminating fraud and abuse from automated attacks. This allows businesses to focus on delivering exceptional customer experiences without the interference of unwanted bot activity.

Benefits of Fastly Bot Management

Fastly Bot Management provides several key benefits for organizations. It helps protect apps and maintain a competitive edge by quickly identifying and mitigating unwanted bot activity. This protection safeguards applications against various automated attacks, ensuring a secure and reliable user experience. Additionally, the solution helps safeguard brand reputation by keeping malicious automation out, leading to faster load times, reduced server strain, enhanced customer data security, and lower user friction.

Reducing Fraud and Resource Abuse

The Fastly Bot Management solution is highly effective in reducing fraud and resource abuse within an enterprise. By offering robust protection against malicious bots that scrape data, launch attacks, and enable fraudulent activities, it helps organizations prevent excessive chargebacks, overhead expenses, and origin costs. This precise bot classification and robust controls ensure that businesses can maintain the integrity of their resources and data.

Simplified Management and Developer-Friendly Features

Fastly Bot Management is built for ease of use, with intuitive controls and minimal configuration requirements. Organizations can manage bots effectively from a single platform experience, and developer-friendly features seamlessly integrate with existing workflows. Moreover, resource-strained teams can benefit from the Managed Security Service, empowering IT and security teams further in managing bot-related challenges.

Key Features of Fastly Bot Management

Fastly's Bot Management solution offers a range of powerful features for holistic bot protection. These include intelligent bot detection, which provides a comprehensive understanding of bot traffic, comprehensive bot mitigation strategies to neutralize threats, and real-time visibility and control through an intuitive dashboard. Organizations can track trends, identify emerging threats, and customize security strategies for optimal protection.

Threat Coverage and Bot Attack Protection

Fastly Bot Management provides protection against various bot attacks, including account takeover, account creation abuse, DDoS attacks, vulnerability scanning, credit card fraud, and form spam. By safeguarding against these threats, organizations can ensure the security and integrity of their online assets, protecting them from malicious activities and data breaches.

Customer Testimonial and Industry Recognition

Le Monde, a leading media company, has successfully utilized Fastly's Bot Management solution to block attacks and improve Time To First Byte (TTFB). This testimonial highlights the effectiveness and value of Fastly's bot protection capabilities. Additionally, Fastly has been recognized as a leader in the industry, receiving accolades such as Gartner Peer Insights Customer's Choice Awards.

Product Capabilities and Competitive Advantage

Fastly's Edge Cloud Platform powers a simple, performant, and developer-friendly approach to bot management. By centralizing application and delivery services into a single solution, organizations can build exceptional customer experiences while effectively managing and mitigating bot-related threats. The platform's simplicity, performance, and developer-friendly nature set Fastly apart from traditional security solutions.

Getting Started with Fastly Bot Management

For organizations looking to enhance their security posture and protect their online assets from bot attacks, Fastly Bot Management offers a comprehensive solution. By providing deep bot visibility, effective mitigation strategies, and real-time insights, Fastly enables businesses to secure their applications and user experiences effectively. Contact Fastly today to learn more and start your journey towards a more secure web environment.

Professional Services for Exceptional Results with Fastly

Expert Onboarding Packages for Seamless Deployment

Fastly offers a range of Onboarding Packages to suit varying resource needs and deployment complexities. From Lite to Select, Complete, and Custom packages, our experts ensure a quick and smooth setup of your services, accelerating your onboarding process. These packages are designed to make onboarding faster and easier for users, ensuring a seamless transition to the Fastly platform.

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Enhanced Security with Fastly vs. Akamai: A Detailed Capability Comparison

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Fastly's Next-Gen Web Application Firewall (WAF) offers superior security features compared to Akamai, ensuring real-time threat detection, increased performance, and smooth integration. With Fastly, users can experience faster incident response, extensive support, and unmatched flexibility on a global network.

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Fastly Next-Gen WAF: Advanced Protection for Web Applications, APIs, and Microservices

Comprehensive Protection for Your Applications and APIs

The Fastly Next-Gen WAF, powered by Signal Sciences, offers advanced protection for web applications, APIs, and microservices, ensuring that your digital assets are safeguarded against evolving threats. This single unified solution provides a holistic approach to security, allowing you to focus on scaling your business without compromising on protection.

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Enhancing Security with Fastly: A Comparison with Imperva

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Fastly's Next-Gen WAF offers a range of benefits that set it apart from Imperva. With fewer false positives, improved visibility, a more performant network, better bot management, and DevSecOps-friendly features, Fastly simplifies security operations. Fastly's SmartParse detection engine enables accurate attack traffic classification, reducing the reliance on regex rulesets. Signals provide deep visibility into traffic behavior, aiding in threat detection and response. Fastly's network boasts higher performance, ensuring better customer experiences. Additionally, Fastly's Bot Management tool offers enhanced control over bot traffic. Its API-first security portfolio simplifies integration with common development and operations tools. Fastly's Next-Gen WAF deploys rapidly across various environments, ensuring comprehensive protection.

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Elevating Digital Media Performance with Fastly API Management: A Case Study of Gannett | USA TODAY Network

How Fastly Empowers Gannett | USA TODAY Network

Gannett | USA TODAY Network, the country's leading local-to-national digital media organization, has redefined its digital media strategy by leveraging Fastly's API Management. Fastly's seamless support has enhanced worldwide response times by 25-30%, facilitated the management of news-driven traffic spikes, and fostered innovative edge solutions at reduced costs.

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