Built for ease-of-use and scale, Fastly DDoS Protection automatically blocks malicious traffic to keep applications and APIs available and performant
Fastly, Inc. a leader in global edge cloud platforms, today announced the general availability of Fastly DDoS Protection to provide automatic protection from Layer 7 and other application-level DDoS attacks. With a click of a button, organizations can enable Fastly DDoS Protection to automatically shield their applications and APIs against highly disruptive data and query floods. Fastly’s DDoS Protection leverages the powerful, proven techniques behind protecting Fastly’s global network from massive DDoS attacks to offer a tailored protection product directly to customers.
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“We’ve engineered Fastly DDoS Protection to detect, evaluate, and immediately react to DDoS attacks without any manual intervention or reactive effort required. That way, customers gain the confidence that their software services will stay up and healthy no matter what app avalanches attackers attempt.”
Modern DDoS attacks can bring even the most-visited, highest-scale websites down. With every minute of downtime now hitting organizations’ top and bottom lines harder – especially as they undergo digital transformation initiatives – software engineering and cybersecurity teams are accountable for ensuring their sites stay up and running despite attacker provocations. Protecting against DDoS traditionally involves manual, high-effort investments that decay in efficacy as attackers evolve their approaches, and do not fit into modern software delivery workflows. Engineering teams need a modern security solution that automatically upholds reliability and resilience in the face of disruptive and distributed threats, without needing to be attack experts. By simply clicking a button to turn on Fastly DDoS Protection, organizations can immediately apply Fastly’s proactive, proprietary techniques to their services and gain defenses validated over many years against some of the world’s largest DDoS attacks.
“Application-level DDoS attacks often resemble legitimate traffic, which is why they are so difficult to detect and protect against,” said John Grady, Principal Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “Now more than ever, organizations need DDoS protection that is simple to deploy and manage, able to detect stealthy attacks, and scalable to mitigate large attacks, all while helping to maintain cloud cost-certainty.”
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The impact of distributed, disruptive attacks has never been greater as more organizations, across all industries, modernize towards software-driven operations. No matter the size of the enterprise or their software architecture, applications and APIs running on the public internet are susceptible to application-level DDoS attacks by motivated attackers that can slow their services, inflate cloud expenses, or, worse, take business-critical and revenue-generating systems offline.
“Fastly has a long history of sustaining resilience against DDoS attacks, from our 353 gbps network capacity to our innovative detection techniques that block malicious traffic from impacting our platform1. We’re excited to offer customers the same powerful protection against application-layer attacks to apply to their own software services, giving them a dynamic, proactive, and automated anti-DDoS solution that they can enable with a single click,” said Kip Compton, Chief Product Officer at Fastly. “We’ve engineered Fastly DDoS Protection to detect, evaluate, and immediately react to DDoS attacks without any manual intervention or reactive effort required. That way, customers gain the confidence that their software services will stay up and healthy no matter what app avalanches attackers attempt.”
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