It's a typical day at work, and you're at your productive best. Just as you think you'll complete your task before the deadline, the network goes down. Sound familiar? However, at the other end are waiting customers who have items in their shopping cart, but are unable to complete transactions; potential prospects who want to try out a demo of your app, but now have doubts; and long-time loyal patrons who find the all-too-frequent interruptions frustrating..

Customers implementing AWS connectivity are presented with a range of choices, including PrivateLink. So when is PrivateLink most suitable? We detail the uses and benefits of this private connectivity method.

Our Elite and Enterprise customers currently using the Fastly CDN can now strengthen the protection of their web applications against a variety of different cyberattacks with our next-gen Fastly web application firewall (Next-Gen WAF) feature. But what exactly is Next-Gen WAF?

When it comes to the relative merits of hybrid work approaches, there can be a range of opinions; some are strong advocates, some see significant downsides, and many fall somewhere in between. About the one thing pretty much everyone can agree upon is that the rise in hybrid work has made the jobs of IT operations teams much more challenging. On any given day, a user may be working in the office, from their home kitchen, a neighborhood café, or just about anywhere else.

TLS certificates are crucial for the secure flow of web traffic, but managing these digital certificates can pose a challenge. Using an ACME-based certificate authority like Let’s Encrypt can automate and simplify the management of issuing these certificates. Certificate management in HAProxy has steadily improved over the years, allowing it to become more flexible and load certificates without restarting.

No matter how much prevention you have, serious security incidents will inevitably occur. Read the next article in our security series that covers how to understand cyberattacks as quickly as possible so that your organization can respond swiftly.

Many organizations manage a hybrid infrastructure spread over on-premise and multiple public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure and Google for specific business applications. The hybrid cloud approach has advantages but adds more complexity for IT teams responsible for keeping IT systems safe and secure. The monitoring tools system administrators use for on-premise infrastructure are often unsuitable for monitoring public cloud platforms.