Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Score9 out of 10

1 Reviews and Ratings

What is Fastly Next-Gen WAF?

Fastly Secure (based on Signal Sciences, acquired December 2020), offers a WAF and RASP solution that protects over 34,000 applications and over a trillion production requests per month. Signal Sciences’ architecture is designed to provide organizations working in a modern development environment with comprehensive and scalable threat protection and security visibility. Additionally, Signal Sciences integrated BotSense service prevents bad bots from performing malicious actions against their websites and APIs. From content scraping to inventory abuse to account manipulation, it is designed to identify and stop malicious bots before they can negatively impact the bottomline and customers’ experience.

Categories & Use Cases

Rehan Kanuga View profile

Data Analyst in Product Management at Rehan Web Services (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Fastly includes an intuitive user interface, as well as developer-friendly features such as complete access to the underlying VCL, a powerful API, and utilities that enable massive scaling. Small teams may simply enrol and configure some of the most frequent choices.

Pros

friendly user interface
easy to understand and use
affordable

Cons

API key management could be more polished
logging could be more obvious and clear
The UI can be un-intuitive at times

Most Important Features

CDN for any web page process
Main document (HTML) caching

Return on Investment

we have dealt adequately with increased traffic and have seen improvements in content management

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

What is Fastly Next-Gen WAF?

Categories & Use Cases