FASTLY WIDENS WEBASSEMBLY INVESTMENT, SUPPORTING SECURE-BY-DEFAULT SOFTWARE ECOSYSTEM

 

KUALA LUMPUR, May 4 (Bernama) -- Fastly Inc has expanded investments in the WebAssembly ecosystem, reinforcing belief that this emerging technology unlocks a more performant, secure, and flexible future for delivering websites and applications.

In a statement, the global edge cloud platform provider said in pursuit of the collaborative mission, it has joined the World Wide Web Consortium and will participate in the WebAssembly Working Group.

Fastly will continue contributions to the newly-incorporated Bytecode Alliance, a non-profit dedicated to creating a new, more secure software ecosystem.

Led by Fastly's WebAssembly team, the evolution of Cranelift's secure sandboxing is one example of the Bytecode Alliance’s commitment to fostering more secure software development.

The ecosystem the Bytecode Alliance aims to build, leveraging WebAssembly and other standards and community efforts, will resolve potentially dangerous shortcomings in execution semantics and sandboxed environments within the software supply chain, addressing development gaps in trust and data integrity.

 This secure-by-default trait has made WebAssembly’s encompassing infrastructure and other emerging standards, such as the WebAssembly System Interface, progressively popular with organisations and developers that need to deliver safe, performant software across platforms and devices, and protect against increasingly detrimental system and supply chain vulnerabilities.

Alongside Bytecode Alliance members, Fastly’s WebAssembly team has specifically prioritised contributing to Wasmtime, a WebAssembly runtime, and Cranelift, an open-source, next-generation code generator for use in WebAssembly to provide sandbox security functionality.

Cranelift’s advanced security controls are crucial to the speedy yet secure-by-design technology that underlies Fastly’s serverless compute solution Compute@Edge, and is uniquely suited to help power a more secure ecosystem for all who work with, collaborate on, and contribute to WebAssembly.

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