Fastly

Fastly provides an edge cloud platform with security capabilities designed to protect modern web applications, APIs and digital services. Its security portfolio includes a Next-Gen Web Application Firewall, API discovery and enforcement, bot management, DDoS protection and edge rate limiting. Fastly can inspect and control traffic close to users, allowing organizations to block malicious requests before they reach application infrastructure. Its API security capabilities provide visibility into APIs and can validate incoming requests against defined schemas. Bot management helps identify and mitigate unwanted automated traffic, while DDoS protection provides automated detection and mitigation for attacks against applications, APIs and origin servers. Its platform is particularly relevant to digital businesses with high-volume internet traffic and distributed application architectures. Organizations evaluating Fastly should consider application topology, API inventory, traffic volumes, edge deployment requirements and integration with existing security operations.