By Staff Writer on Feb 12, 2021 11:49AM By tapping Fastly’s cloud-based edge security, developers can automate secure coding and deployment. Increasing use of cloud technologies was always going to be the logical next step for companies that were forced to accelerate digital transformation plans as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. With remote-access usage exploding and new security threats emerging as a result of the new normal, strategic investment in cloud platforms offered a way of scaling with demand and increasing agility. This meant, for example, tapping serverless applications to enable automated deployment of new capacity in seconds rather than days.