Edge Security & Performance

Threats stopped at the edge, before they cost you.

Protect and accelerate your business-critical applications with a managed Web Application Firewall, DDoS and bot protection and a global CDN, built on Fastly, our preferred edge partner.

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The edge is where speed and security meet your users. Done well, it makes your application faster and harder to attack at the same time. We design and manage your edge on Fastly: caching content close to your visitors, filtering hostile traffic before it ever reaches your origin, and tuning both continuously as your traffic and threats change.

What we manage

Security and speed, as a service

CDN & caching

Global content delivery with compression, continuously tuned for hit ratios.

Web Application Firewall

Protect business-critical apps from attacks; we manage the rules for you.

DDoS protection

Protection against DDoS attacks of any size and kind.

Bot management

Tell good bots from bad and stop malicious traffic with threat intelligence at scale.

How we work

Set up carefully, improved continuously

Tuned, not just switched on

We configure caching and security rules with your team, first on test, then production, and keep improving them.

Clear visibility

Detailed dashboards on cache hit/miss and threat statistics, so decisions are based on data.

Not tied to one CDN. Fastly is our preferred edge platform, but we design and manage on whichever provider fits your stack and contracts.

Fastly (preferred)CloudflareAkamaiAmazon CloudFrontBunny CDN

How it works

Traffic flows through the edge

Visitors reach the origin through the Fastly edge, which caches content and blocks malicious traffic
Visitors reach the origin through the Fastly edge

Visitors hit the Fastly edge first, not your origin. Cacheable content is served instantly from the edge, while the WAF, DDoS and bot controls inspect and filter traffic, so attacks and junk requests are stopped before they cost you anything, and legitimate users get a faster site.

At the edge

Junk filtered before it reaches your origin

Visitors hit the Fastly edge first. Cacheable content is served instantly; the WAF, DDoS and bot controls inspect and filter, so attacks and junk requests are stopped before they cost you anything.

Edge · last 24hFastly
  • Requests inspected4.2M
  • DDoS blocked1.2M
  • Malicious bots340k
  • Clean → origin2.6M
37% filtered at edge63% served

Illustrative: example 24h window

A closer look

What each layer does

CDN & caching

We cache static assets and cacheable responses across the edge's global points of presence, so content is served closer and faster, and less load and cost reach your origin.

Web Application Firewall

A managed WAF inspects every request and blocks common attacks: SQL injection, XSS and the rest of the OWASP Top 10. We tune the rules to your application.

DDoS protection

Always-on and absorbed at the edge, covering network-layer and application-layer attacks, detected and mitigated automatically before they reach your origin.

Bot management

We separate good bots from bad, blocking scrapers and credential-stuffing while keeping search engines and uptime monitors flowing. Real customers get a smooth experience.

Outcomes

What you get from the edge

Faster page loads and higher cache-hit ratios; fewer malicious requests reaching your origin; and a measurable, data-backed view of what the edge is doing for you, reviewed and refined over time, never "set and forget".

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Why Fastly?

It's our preferred edge platform and we're a Fastly partner, but the value is in how we design and manage it for you, not just switching it on.

Which CDNs do you support?

Fastly is our preferred platform; we also support Cloudflare, Akamai, Amazon CloudFront and Bunny CDN, and we'll manage whichever fits your stack and contracts.

Will the WAF block real users?

We tune rules with you, first on test then production, and watch the dashboards so protection doesn't get in legitimate users' way.