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Fastly launched the edge deployment option for the Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences). This marks a key milestone in integrating Signal Sciences’ trusted web application firewall (WAF) technology with Fastly’s edge cloud network. The unif… Continue reading Fastly Next-Gen WAF’s edge deployment option protects business-critical applications and APIs
42Crunch announced two key senior additions to its growing global team. Stephen Gomann has been appointed as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) to lead the company’s sales organization, overseeing global sales and business development. Hugh Carroll has … Continue reading 42Crunch expands its global team with two key executive appointments
The cloud services company Fastly said Thursday it intends to acquire Signal Sciences for $775 million. The deal for Los Angeles-based Signal Sciences, which provides security monitoring and digital defenses for web applications, is for $200 million in cash and roughly $575 million in Class A stock, the companies said in an announcement. The deal is subject to “customary adjustments for transactions of this nature,” they said. Fastly also will set up a $50 million retention pool for restricted stock meant to current Signal Sciences employees. The transaction brings Signal Sciences into Fastly’s service, a content distribution platform that protects against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, automated bot traffic and provides an application firewall. Now, the plan is to include Signal Science’s technology, which encompasses API protection, into a new security product. Word of the deal comes after Palo Alto Networks announced it would acquire Crypsis Group, an incident response firm, for $265 […]
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While plenty of attacks will continue to hit traditional targets such operating systems and humans, 2020 will see many attackers taking aim at non-traditional systems. Containers, connected devices and the communications between the two technologies wi… Continue reading 2020 forecast: Attackers will target non-traditional systems
As security incidents continue to be an ongoing threat to businesses on a daily basis, keeping security procedures up-to-date and avoiding the next breach have become paramount. In the first six months alone in 2019, more than 4 billion customer record… Continue reading Avoiding the next breach: Four tips for securing your apps
Signal Sciences, the fastest growing web application security company in the world, announced the general availability of the first application protection solution for Istio, the industry-leading open source service mesh for microservices architecture … Continue reading Signal Sciences unveils new application protection solution for Istio
For years, security, operations, and engineering have struggled to get one cohesive view of application performance and real-time attacks due to multiple streams of data from a variety of operations and security tools that don’t work well together. We … Continue reading Webinar: Application Protection and Performance Monitoring Using Datadog + Signal Sciences
Developers and operations teams are under constant pressure to release new features and capabilities that keep their organizations ahead of competitors. But when “Innovate!” is a constant rallying cry and velocity the measure of a development team’s wo… Continue reading Webinar: Securing Web Layer Assets with Cloud WAF
Signal Sciences, the fastest growing web application security company in the world, announced its Pivotal Container Service (PKS) integration. The integration ensures that Signal Sciences’ next-gen WAF and RASP solution interoperates effectively with P… Continue reading Signal Sciences’ WAF and RASP solution interoperates effectively with Pivotal Container Service
Attackers are always looking for ways into web and mobile applications. The 2019 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report listed web applications the number ONE vector attackers use when breaching organizations. In this paper, Signal Sciences examine m… Continue reading Whitepaper: Identifying Web Attack Indicators