Name: Mitigating DDOS in the Fediverse with Mastodon
Start: 2023-07-25T16:00:00Z
End: 2023-07-25T16:00:31.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

Fastly is upgrading the internet experience to give people and organisations more control, faster content, and more dynamic applications. By combining the world’s fastest global edge cloud network with powerful software, Fastly helps customers develop, deliver, and secure modern distributed applications and compelling digital experiences. Join our live and on-demand talks to get a deep dive on cyber security trends, a look into new tools, interact with our engineers or learn the latest in the edge computing world.

Can you protect your applications from nefarious actors during high-traffic seasons?
 
If you’re worried about this, you might need Fastly’s help to stay protected.

Application DDoS attacks hurt your bottom line during periods of high traffic as they impact performance, availability, and artificially inflate operational costs, but stopping them is no simple feat. To surgically separate the attack traffic without impacting legitimate customers, an adaptive and highly accurate tool like Fastly DDoS Protection is needed.

Fastly DDoS Protection is a new adaptive solution that automatically mitigates disruptive, distributed application DDoS attacks with a single click. It ensures your sites remain scalable, stable, and reliable, even under pressure.

Learn more by joining Liam Mayron, Ph.D., CISSP and Fastly Staff Product Manager, as he explores Fastly DDoS Protection and its benefits for your organization. 

In this webinar, he’ll cover:
- DDoS attacks: Industry insights and patterns
- Unveiling the Fastly solution: Our new DDoS Protection
- Enhancing resiliency and reducing operational cost
- Unlocking zero attack fees

Can you separate attack traffic from legitimate traffic?

The holiday season is around the corner—and with it comes peak online traffic. It’s crucial to prepare your website and app to handle increased visitor volumes effectively with key site performance optimization. 

Ensure fast load times, deliver secure transactions, and provide an engaging user experience. Additionally, make sure you implement robust security measures to protect against the increase in potential cyber threats and attackers.

In this webinar, we will walk you through best practices and provide you with a practical game plan to optimize both your CDN and Next-Gen WAF.

Attend this webinar to:
-Ensure your CDN is ready for traffic peaks
-Fine-tune your WAF to guard against special attacks
-Monitor and understand bot traffic
-Uncover best practices for visibility and observability

Get Ready for the Holiday Traffic Surge

As GraphQL becomes an increasingly popular query language, more security teams are looking to learn more about it and what it means for their team. This 15 minute video goes over what GraphQL is, the attack surface for this new technology and a demo showing you what it looks like in action.

In this brief webinar attendees will learn:
- What GraphQL is
- How GraphQL is different from REST
- Some common attack vectors

How to Protect Modern GraphQL APIs

Developing applications and web experiences that meet the needs of the modern user is a robust challenge for any organization. Join Fastly’s Travis Sanders, Principal Global Technology Solution Architect, in his discussion of the value of one unified platform for application and website innovation.

During this webinar, Travis will highlight:
- The challenges facing developers while building modern applications. 
- What is the edge, why it matters, and how it can help time to value.
- What building on a single platform can unlock for your business.

Platform for Platforms: Developing Modern Applications at the Edge

Whether fierce competition, subscriber fatigue, discoverability, or something else, the current online video market conditions make it imperative that you deliver the best possible viewer experiences at all times.

Join us for an insightful webinar that covers the essential steps to gaining greater control over your media business. Listen in as two of our industry experts discuss the steps involved to take your online video business to the next level and how a modern CDN can improve the streaming experience of your viewers, minimize churn and even boost adoption.

Sharing from their experience, they will further discuss requirements for great user experiences, using multiple CDNs, and managing egress costs.

Topics covered:
-The pitfalls of all-in-one video platforms
-Components of a professional video workflow
-What a modern CDN is, and how it can set your business apart
-Security considerations for streaming services

How a modern CDN can scale your growing media business

Performance, for websites and apps, is all about experience. Certainly, this is true of the user experience, in terms of speed but also security. Performance is also a function of the developer experience. DevOps teams need the tools to be able to build quickly and iterate smoothly, especially for organizations where more and more teams are becoming stakeholders in DevOps processes. This discussion will examine how the edge can influence performance, and how democratizing the developer experience can set up the edge for success.

Crafting the Edge for Performance: A Matter of Speed, Reliability and DevOps

The breadth of security tools, each with the best intentions, can leave practitioners struggling to adjust protections, apply updates, and triage alerts. For some organizations, having a third party manage their security products can be a winning proposition. Expertly managed security services can provide consistent updates, comprehensive coverage, advanced analysis, and around-clock, fully-staffed coverage as a trusted extension of in-house security teams.

Organizations struggle to staff security in-house, leading to limited readiness and delayed response. For organizations looking to manage DDoS mitigation and Web Application Protection more efficiently there are managed services that can help.

In this webinar, we have a panel discussion with Fastly Vice President of Customer Security, Gino Lang, Senior Engineering Manager at Duolingo, Matt Brandman, and analyst Ed Amoroso discuss the current security landscape and how managed services can help fill important gaps.

Duolingo Streamlines Security Operations with Managed Security

The surge in sophisticated bot automated fraud attacks has materially affected technology organizations, who lose 5% of annual gross revenue on average to fraud1. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Fastly have partnered together to protect customers from fraud at the network edge with reCAPTCHA Enterprise.

During this 30 minute webinar, attendees will learn:
- What the current bot and fraud market looks like today, and how the impact of fraudulent activity impacts businesses
- How reCAPTCHA Enterprise provides exceptional automated bot defense
- How technologies deployed at the network edge can retain enterprise value without adding friction

Security at the Edge: Fastly & reCAPTCHA Enterprise Integration

Too many developers are still living with the dark ages of black-box content delivery networks (CDNs) that don’t provide the real-time observability, baked-in security, and programmatic control needed to deliver the dynamic experiences today’s users demand.

The modern CDN is designed with the goal of empowering developers. Developer empowerment is essential for creating innovative digital experiences that help increase customer lifetime value, improve conversion rates, and drive higher average order value and loyalty. High-engineering velocity is critical to achieving these goals. 

Businesses are better equipped to succeed when they give developers the tools they need to innovate and maintain secure and competitive sites and applications. After this webinar, you’ll understand why it’s time to rethink your CDN and what to look for in a new one.

During this 30 minute webinar, Fastly experts will explore:
    • The evolution and current state of CDNs.
    • The benefits of the modern CDN, including real world applications.
    • How to select a modern CDN provider and unique differentiators.

What is a modern CDN and why is it important?

Join Fastly leaders Monica Sharma, VP of Product - Edge Computing, and Anil Dash, VP of Developer Experience in a discussion on the future of edge computing with guest speaker Michele Pelino, Principal Analyst and leader of Forrester’s edge computing research.

They will lead a roundtable discussion with Josh Koenig, Chief Strategy Officer of website operations platform Pantheon and Jon Matthews, Vice President of Engineering at Shogun, an all-in-one Frontend Platform

In this webinar you will learn:
- Major trends and predictions in the edge computing industry
- How major web platforms are utilizing the power of edge computing
- Where practitioners can see the potential for a “smart edge” of the future

Envisioning a Smart Edge: The Future of Building and Deploying at the Edge

Organizations are adopting edge strategies and developing platform solutions to help customers optimize performance and costs. Yet, choosing a partner they can trust to help them grow their platforms safely and reliably can be difficult. Join us as we review the challenges and discuss the considerations when selecting the right partner.

Supercharge your platform: power the new era of edge computing

The importance of maintaining secure experiences that serve more complex processes by end users is expected to drive the value of edge technologies. Watch our open panel discussion with Tyler McMullen, Fastly Chief Technology Officer, and Kelly Shortridge, Security Senior Principal at Fastly, where they will share their view on the importance of edge cloud technologies in an increasingly lean development environment.

An interactive Q&A discussion, including sharing Fastly’s perspective on:
- Pressure to budgets and the constraints of doing more with less
- Relationship of central and public clouds to existing infrastructure
- Impacts of security threats to end users and developer experiences
- Topic suggestions from the live event

Edge Cloud Panel: Improving Performance, Security, and Budget at the Edge

The challenges that security teams face with CAPTCHAs are often ignored, but it needs to be addressed. Whether it’s privacy concerns of user data being shared with CAPTCHA providers, attackers hiring humans to solve CAPTCHAs, or friction and frustration with the user experience, Fastly believes that there has to be a better way.

The future of anti-fraud is moving towards ecosystems of attestation providers. Organizations can ensure they are prepared with Private Access Tokens – where human vs. bot decision is based on trusted relationships, not risk calculations, browser properties, or inferred user behavior. 

During this webinar, Fastly will explore:
- The importance of talking about CAPTCHAs and understanding its pain points
- New approaches for addressing fraudulent activity
- Why Private Access Tokens will future-proof organizations

Expanding Serverless Protection for AWS Lambda

Continue with our 2022 Altitude Series with Fastly's VP of Security GTM and founder of Signal Sciences, Andrew Peterson, as he discusses updates on how we make security easy for customers to take advantage of security at the edge of the network and beyond.

Join us for our next session with Gannett and their discussion around the need for a robust API Gateway/Management platform that provides authentication, origin protection, and other features vital to scaling and protection. See how they significantly improved security, average response time and cost savings.

Speaker: Andrew Peterson, Vice President Security GTM for Fastly

Altitude 2022: Making Security Easy Flexible, Accurate, & Automated Security FTW

Continue with our 2022 Altitude Series

Join Fastly's Nick Rockwell, EVP of Engineering and Infrastructure, as he shares a peak into a window of what’s new with Fastly’s global network, designed to be a highly-performant, available, controllable, efficient, and general-purpose fabric upon which our customers can program and innovate.

Join us for our next session with Bell Media for their discussion of leading content creation for the best experience to users, including using real-time logs to monitor and alert as well as help shape traffic, plan new features and their usability post-rollout, design disaster recovery scenarios for both live and VoD streaming, and much more.

Speaker: Nick Rockwell, EVP Engineering & Infrastructure at Fastly

Altitude 2022: Building the Fabric for Customer Innovation Nick Rockwell

Federated social media networks are quickly becoming a popular alternative to mainstream social media platforms. Collectives like the Fediverse are helping over 4 million users interact with each other without relying on centralized platforms. To protect itself from attacks like distributed denial of services (DDOS), federated sites like Mastodon require protection that works with their architecture. 

In this webinar, experts from Mastodon and Fastly’s cybersecurity operations center (CSOC) will share lessons learned from mitigating DDOS attacks on Mastodon Social and techniques for protecting federated architectures.

Mitigating DDOS in the Fediverse with Mastodon

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