FASTLY UNVEILS BETA AVAILABILITY OF SIGNAL SCIENCES AGENT ON EDGE CLOUD PLATFORM

KUALA LUMPUR, July 29 (Bernama) -- Fastly Inc, a global edge cloud platform provider, has announced beta availability of the Signal Sciences agent on the Fastly edge cloud platform.

This represents a critical milestone toward Fastly’s vision of empowering developers to protect apps and APIs in every environment — cloud, on-premise, hybrid and now at the network edge.

According to a statement, with this integration, customers will be able to leverage the powerful signal technology to write and push out rules in real-time to track suspicious requests and block attacks sooner.

“Fastly’s large global network, combined with Signal Sciences’ superior signal detection technology, makes it possible for organisations to enable a multi-layer or defence in depth strategy to protect every part of their business, no matter the environment,” said senior vice president of product and marketing at Fastly, Dana Wolf.

Through these advancements, customers will be able to access smarter detection capabilities as Fastly’s next-gen WAF offers superior detection capabilities by assessing attack indicators to better define traffic types.

It also enables faster, more targeted blocking, whereby the integration will support signal exclusion rules in Signal Sciences’ management console, informed by attack indicators fed through Signal Sciences’ technology, to ensure benign traffic does not get inadvertently blocked.

In addition, it will enable a multi-layer defence strategy. Fastly’s next-gen WAF technology, combined with its large scale network, is uniquely designed to absorb the largest DDoS attacks and prevent traffic from slowing down or completely stopping.

Fastly expects the edge-based agent for Fastly’s next-gen WAF to be available in production by year-end.

-- BERNAMA