Fast Content Delivery and Security in Federal IT

In the 1990's, the World Wide Web was so popular that it was facetiously called the Worldwide Wait. Centralized servers handled a small workload but bogged down as volumes increased.

As a result, Content Delivery Services sprang up to distribute the workload worldwide. By 2001, large news organizations could manage unpredictable increases in traffic. The past decade saw a drastic increase in traffic and threats to it.

During the interview, Omeed Nosarti describes how companies like Fastly began offering proprietary methods to deliver content faster.

Nasrati highlights Fastly's proprietary technologies, such as Smart Parse, which reduces false positives in web application firewalls (WAFs), and its network architecture optimized for low latency and high cache hit ratios.

Included in this conversation is the appearance of many remote points on many federal networks. These can function by increasing the attack surface and including the possibility of attacking the Application Programming Interface (API).

Nasrati also mentions Fastly's API security features, including schema enforcement and discovery, and its significant ROI in terms of infrastructure and human capital costs.

Nasrati emphasizes the importance of real-time traffic analysis and the evolving nature of DDoS attacks.

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