Fastly Unveils New Bot Management Solution to Help Detect and Block Threats at the Edge

Fastly, Inc. (NYSE: FSLY), a leader in global edge cloud platforms, today introduced Fastly Bot Management to help organizations combat automated “bot” attacks at the edge and significantly reduce the risk of fraud, DDoS attacks, account takeovers, and other online abuse. Fastly Bot Management represents an important cybersecurity milestone for the company, building on its proven bot mitigation expertise and capabilities currently available in its Next-Gen WAF.

“Organizations increasingly are delivering more enhanced digital experiences to their users at the edge. Not surprisingly, cyber adversaries have followed so the need to detect – and stop – attacks as close to the threat as possible has never been greater. Fastly’s decision to extend and enhance its bot protection capabilities on the company’s flagship edge cloud platform is both timely and a natural evolution of the company’s overall cybersecurity strategy,” said Christopher Rodriguez, Research Director, Security & Trust, IDC.

“Every day, bad actors, including bot operators, are looking to disrupt and fraudulently monetize ecommerce and other Internet traffic with automated attacks, putting organizations at risk of fraud, security attacks, and account takeovers. Organizations need to quickly protect good traffic and block malicious traffic,” said Kip Compton, Chief Product Officer at Fastly. “With Fastly Bot Management as a unified part of our security offerings all powered by Fastly’s Edge Cloud Platform we are helping our customers – especially global e-commerce and media companies – defend against these attacks with our simple-to-use single platform solution that scales to meet their website and application needs and reduces fraud risk and infrastructure costs.”

Fastly’s Bot Management solution enhances the company's overall security capabilities, which customers trust to significantly increase their security in real-world deployments. In fact, while many security tools are not configured to block traffic in order to avoid incorrectly blocking legitimate traffic, Fastly’s Next-Gen WAF is used in “full blocking mode” by nearly 90% of customers¹, a direct reflection of the trust and confidence customers have in Fastly’s solutions.

“Fastly's new Bot Management solution provides granular visibility and rule setting capability to let the good traffic in and keep the bad traffic out, which helps us protect our content and reduce infrastructure costs,” said Paul Laleu, Chief Technology Officer, Le Monde.