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Fastly NGWAF
Fastly
Founded 2011·US·Public
4.6
Combined score
G2
4.7200Gartner
4.5100G2
4.7200 reviews
Gartner
4.5100 reviews
Gartner MQ: Leader (Gartner WAAP MQ 2024)
WAF / Web Application Firewall assessment
PROTECTIONStrong
OPERATIONSStrong
ANALYTICSStrong
TRUST & ECOSYSTEMStrong
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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