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Fastly NGWAF

Fastly

Founded 2011·US·Public
4.6

Combined score

G2
4.7200
Gartner
4.5100

G2

4.7200 reviews

Gartner

4.5100 reviews
Gartner MQ: Leader (Gartner WAAP MQ 2024)

WAF / Web Application Firewall assessment

PROTECTIONStrong
OWASP Top 10 coverage
5 / 5
Bot management
4 / 5
OPERATIONSStrong
Rule management
5 / 5
Performance & latency
5 / 5
ANALYTICSStrong
Traffic & threat analytics
5 / 5
TRUST & ECOSYSTEMStrong
CDN & network quality
4 / 5

Strongest: OWASP Top 10 coverage

Watch out for: CDN & network quality

Strengths & limitations

Strengths

●4.7/5 G2 — highest WAF user satisfaction in category; Signal Sciences engineering heritage
●Agent-based deployment gives full application context — lowest false positive rate
●Strong DevOps integration — native Kubernetes, Fastly CDN, and CI/CD support

Watch out for

●Agent required on each origin server — more complex than pure cloud proxy WAF
●Premium pricing not competitive for SMB or simple use cases
●Less global CDN presence than Cloudflare or Akamai

Best for

DevOps-forward enterprises wanting highest-accuracy WAF with lowest false positives and deep application context.

Not suitable for: Organisations wanting pure proxy-based WAF without agent installation on origin servers.

Compliance coverage

●SOC 2
●HIPAA
●NIST CSF
●PCI-DSS
●CMMC
●GDPR
●NIS2
●ISO 27001
●CIS Benchmarks
○Essential Eight
○AU Privacy Act
○DORA

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Quick facts

Pricing modelper request/month; Signal Sciences heritage
Pricing rangeEnterprise custom; estimated $25,000-200,000+/year
Free trialYes — 30 days
Min seatsNo minimum
Deployment time< 1 week
Complexity2 / 5
Pricing transparency2 / 5
AU presenceYes
IRAP assessedNo
Open sourceProprietary

Deployment

ModelsSaaS, Agent-based
OS supportLinux, Docker, Kubernetes
CloudAWS, Azure, GCP
SupportPhone, Email, Dedicated CSM, Slack
Data residencyUS, EU

Company

Fastly

Founded 2011 · 700-900 employees · Public

HQ: US

$550M+ revenue FY2024

Certifications

SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS

Integrations

Fastly CDNNginxApacheKubernetesGitHubSplunkDatadogPagerDuty