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New research shows over half of businesses struggle to reduce the risk of attacks, leaving them fearful of compromise, particularly by nation-states and other types of threat actors. The study also predicts this situation will continue if critical cybersecurity skills shortages aren’t addressed, and if organisations do not employ detection technologies that are effective in production, provide real-time visibility, and integrate with existing tools and processes.

New research shows over half of businesses struggle to reduce the risk of attacks, leaving them fearful of compromise, particularly by nation-states and other types of threat actors. The study also predicts this situation will continue if critical cybersecurity skills shortages aren’t addressed, and if organisations do not employ detection technologies that are effective in production, provide real-time visibility, and integrate with existing tools and processes.

COMPANY NEWS: Fastly, the world’s fastest edge cloud network provider, today announced its acquisition of Fanout, a platform that makes it easy to build and scale real-time and streaming APIs such as live chat support, ecommerce, video streaming, gaming, collaborative editing, and more. The acquisition is part of Fastly’s broader growth strategy to identify and deploy technologies and talent that increase performance, security and innovation for customers.

COMPANY NEWS: Fastly today announced it was named a March 2022 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) for the fourth consecutive year.

COMPANY NEWS: Fastly, the world’s fastest global edge cloud network provider, today announced it has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Commercial Content Delivery Network 2022 Vendor Assessment.

Edge cloud network provider Fastly launches Compute@Edge partner ecosystem with integrations to help customers build edge computing use cases that address infrastructure requirements for digital experiences.

COMPANY NEWS: Fastly, the world’s fastest global edge cloud network provider, today announced the launch of the edge deployment option for the Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences). This marks a key milestone in integrating Signal Sciences’ award-winning trusted web application firewall (WAF) technology with Fastly’s edge cloud network.

COMPANY NEWS: Fastly, the world’s fastest global edge cloud network provider, today announced the unveiling of its Fastly Academy, an on-demand learning centre designed to help customers sharpen their skills and curious developers looking for more information about its products and platform. As pressure continues to mount for resource-constrained developer and engineering teams tasked with creating innovative new experiences in a digital-first world, Fastly Academy’s self-service, efficient learning environment equips teams with faster onboarding and reduced time-to-value as they build, secure, and deliver more powerful websites and applications.

Global edge cloud network provider Fastly appoints Alan Chan as the company’s first head of channel and partnerships for Australia and New Zealand.

COMPANY NEWS: Fastly, a global edge cloud network provider, today announced the launch of Origin Inspector, an origin-to-edge real-time visibility product accessible via Fastly’s user interface and API. Uptime and reliability are mission-critical for any company with a digital presence, especially for large enterprises delivering online experiences at global scale. Fastly’s Origin Inspector enables businesses to proactively identify origin performance issues, empowering companies to take speedy and effective corrective actions to minimise downtime.

COMPANY NEWS: Edge cloud network provider Fastly has appointed Lakshmi Sharma as its chief product officer.

COMPANY NEWS: The Forrester New Wave: Edge Development Platforms Q4 2021 report named global edge cloud platform provider Fastly a Leader as its Compute@Edge was given differentiated scores, the highest possible, across six criteria, including vision, roadmap, developer experience, platform execution model, and day-two-plus experience.

We asked our panel of industry players if they thought telcos would make a move for a dominant role in edge computing. Most were not entirely convinced.

COMPANY NEWS: The 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Application and API Protection has named global edge cloud platform provider Fastly as a Challenger last August.

COMPANY NEWS: Melbourne-based linking platform Linktree has deployed global edge cloud platform provider Fastly’s edge cloud platform and next-gen cloud-based web application firewall to make their online content easier to find, safer to manage, and boost online presence on social media and ecommerce stores, supporting 16 million global users.

COMPANY NEWS: Cloud platform provider Fastly’s next-gen web application firewall (WAF) will now be available as private listing and public officer in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace.

Game day is being radically transformed, but not everyone stands to benefit, writes Derek Rast, Area Vice President – Australia and New Zealand, Fastly

COMPANY NEWS: Fastly, a global edge cloud platform provider, today 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. 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.

COMPANY NEWS: Fastly, a global edge cloud platform provider, today announced the availability of JavaScript in Compute@Edge, allowing developers to build with even more flexibility in Fastly’s serverless compute environment. With more JavaScript developers in the world than there are for any other development language, the availability of a faster, more secure way of building with JavaScript brings Compute@Edge’s safety benefits and speedy execution to more workloads around the globe.

GUEST RESEARCH: Fastly, a global edge cloud platform provider, today released new research in partnership with Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) that uncovers a crucial need for a unified, modern, and simplified approach to security. The study, based on insights from information security and IT professionals in Australia and globally, revealed growing concerns around adequately securing the rapidly rising number of mission-critical cloud services and API-centric applications introduced as part of ongoing digital transformations.