SAN FRANCISCO, May 4 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — Fastly, Inc., a global edge cloud platform provider, has expanded its investments in the WebAssembly ecosystem, reinforcing its belief that this emerging technology unlocks a more performant, secure, and flexible future for delivering websites and applications. In pursuit of this collaborative mission, Fastly has joined the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and will participate in the WebAssembly Working Group, and continues its contributions to the newly-incorporated Bytecode Alliance, a nonprofit 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.
WebAssembly’s secure-by-design future fuels growing popularity
Today’s predominant supply chain models for building software come with inherent weaknesses, which have played significant roles in helping attackers breach critical infrastructure and gain access to billions of people’s personal information. 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 (WASI), progressively popular with organizations and developers that need to deliver safe, performant software across platforms and devices, and to protect against increasingly detrimental system and supply chain vulnerabilities.