Application security that reliably delivers great online experiences
Traditional solutions are obsolete. They block developer innovation and overwhelm teams with useless alerts. There’s a better way – Fastly’s friction-free security empowers developers so you can deliver incredible customer experiences, consistently.
Defeat advanced threats
Stop attacks from impacting performance, availability, or worse. Get protection against OWASP threats, account takeover (ATO) via credential stuffing, malicious bots, API abuse and more.
Deploy instantly, protect accurately
Deploy in minutes or hours, not weeks or months. Leverage accurate protection without the need for extensive tuning or long learning periods.
Respond immediately
Empower teams to find and fix problems faster. Gain real-time visibility into attack traffic, rule efficacy, and much more.
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Smarter, easier security
The Fastly Next-Gen Web Application Firewall (WAF) takes a fundamentally different approach to application security, enabling increased protection without tuning, deployment anywhere you need, and industry-leading time-to-value.
Security that turns the table on attackers
Get protection that goes beyond OWASP attacks. Fastly’s modern, software-based approach to security empowers customers to deploy effective deception techniques.
Flexible protection, everywhere
Fastly offers the most flexibly deployed WAF on the market and can protect your apps and APIs wherever they are with one integrated solution offering the same level of visibility and actionable insights and alerts.
Security as an innovation enabler
Fastly’s security solutions integrate with DevOps and security toolchains to facilitate the sharing and correlation of data. Using flexible APIs, we offer dozens of integrations with common development and operations alerting engines, chat-ops, project management, and incident-tracking systems.
“We were really impressed with how easy deployment went. Dropping Fastly’s Next-Gen WAF into our existing highly-available architecture with minimal effort was critical to the project’s success.”
Nick Soulliere
VP of Production Engineering
"Since leveraging Fastly, we've become a very edge-first organization. Our developers can work on a product, and the SRE team can quickly take that product to the live production environment and end users."
Bilal Fazal
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Team Manager
"Fastly and its team of security experts genuinely know what it means to keep companies safe from hackers. The customer experience has been outstanding and added support is rated five stars. I would 100% recommend any company join the Fastly band if you want to ensure your customer data is secure."
Application Security Engineer
Media Industry (Gartner Peer Insights review)
"We’ve got a lot on our plate, so we look for technology that gives us what we need out of the box. [Security solutions like the Fastly Next-Gen WAF] that you can turn on and immediately get known threat signature detection is really helpful for a team like ours."
Matt Ogle
Platform engineer
Why our WAF is “Next-Gen”
Learn why companies are leaving their outdated security tools behind and are relying on the Fastly Next-Gen WAF to protect their websites, apps, and APIs.
The key to our reliable, accurate decisions lies in our patented architecture and proprietary detection technology, SmartParse. Learn how SmartParse makes instantaneous decisions in line to determine if malicious or anomalous payloads are present.
Network Learning Exchange (NLX) is a collective threat feed built into our Next-Gen WAF that identifies and shares potentially threatening IP addresses across our customer networks. The shared threat data fosters a network effect, where the collective intelligence of all customers contributes to stronger security for each organization.
The key to our reliable, accurate decisions lies in our patented architecture and proprietary detection technology, SmartParse. Learn how SmartParse makes instantaneous decisions in line to determine if malicious or anomalous payloads are present.
Network Learning Exchange (NLX) is a collective threat feed built into our Next-Gen WAF that identifies and shares potentially threatening IP addresses across our customer networks. The shared threat data fosters a network effect, where the collective intelligence of all customers contributes to stronger security for each organization.