Fastly Named a Challenger in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Web Application and API Protection
Fastly, Inc. (NYSE: FSLY) has been recognized as a Challenger in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAAP. This designation, along with being named Customers’ Choice for Web Application and API Protection for four consecutive years, highlights Fastly's commitment to providing robust security without compromising speed. The Next-Gen WAF enhances detection capabilities, allowing over 90% of customers to operate confidently in full blocking mode.
- Named a Challenger in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAAP.
- Recognized as Customers' Choice for Web Application and API Protection for the fourth consecutive year.
- 90% of customers confident using Next-Gen WAF in full blocking mode.
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As the first and only unified solution that empowers security and DevOps teams to confidently protect their apps and APIs anywhere they live, Fastly Next-Gen WAF provides the WAAP accuracy and scale enterprise customers need
“We believe Fastly being named a Challenger, along with our recent recognition as the Customers’ Choice for Web Application and API Protection for a fourth consecutive year, validates all of our efforts to protect Internet scale in any environment,” said
According to Gartner “Hype Cycle™ for Application Security, 2022,” “Public-facing web applications are at high risk of breach. As most critical business processes and sensitive data are hosted on these applications, protecting them is paramount.” The 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report by Verizon also found that web applications are the top vector for attacks.
Fastly empowers developers and security teams with superior detection capabilities and reliable attack indicators that go above and beyond traditional WAFs, which are historically difficult to manage and require never-ending rules tuning to eliminate the false positives that can block legitimate traffic. The Fastly Next-Gen WAF protects apps and APIs in every environment - in the cloud, on-prem, hybrid, and the network edge. Because Next-Gen WAF leverages a fundamentally different approach (developed by Signal Sciences) that effectively detects and blocks malicious traffic and attacks without rules tuning, more than
In addition to superior technical efficacy, our customers repeatedly call out our ease of onboarding and excellent customer support. A site reliability engineer in the media and publishing industry noted in a recent peer review that, “Fastly Next-Gen WAF is easy to integrate, configure and provides great insights.” And
To learn more about Fastly’s Next-Gen WAF, visit our Web Application and API Protection page.
To view a complimentary copy of the full 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Application and API Protection report, visit https://learn.fastly.com/gartner-magic-quadrant-waap.html.
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