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Independent research shows Cloudflare's web application firewall (WAF) generates up to around 90% less carbon than on-premises applications at low to medium traffic demand.

GUEST RESEARCH: Web application firewalls (WAF) are designed to safeguard web-based applications and APIs from malicious external HTTPs traffic, most notably cross-site scripting and SQL injection attacks that just don’t seem to drop off the security radar.

GUEST OPINION: Many companies, including GitHub, Credit Karma, Intuit and PayPal use GraphQL, which is a query language for application programming interfaces and a runtime for fulfilling queries with existing data.

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.

F5 announced this week a major expansion of its application security and delivery portfolio with F5 distributed cloud services, a new SaaS platform providing multi-cloud networking and edge-based computing solutions. F5 is also launching the first new service on the platform, Web application and API protection, integrating multiple security capabilities into a unified offering.

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.

GUEST OPINION: While the rapid advance of 5G communications delivers comprehensive benefits for communication service providers (CSPs), the new technology also presents challenges in security and cost.

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.

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A new set of services will help protect applications running on the next generation of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.