Next-Generation Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Complete Protection for Your Apps and APIs, in the cloud, datacenter, containers, or serverless
Signal Sciences makes it easy to protect the web layer assets that drive your business without dedicating headcount or additional resources.
“It’s refreshing to work with a security product that not only provides exceptional security benefits, but also prioritizes performance, reliability, and overall operational manageability.
Signal Sciences is easy for our DevOps team to support, which allows us to focus on the security capabilities it provides, rather than fighting with basic operational issues.”
Jenner Holden
VP of INFORMATION SECURITY 
“We selected Signal Sciences because it just worked. We didn’t want to divert internal resources to maintain coverage by tuning security controls.
Signal Sciences seamlessly integrated into our toolset, while giving us realtime security visibility—without the noise.”
Ryan Shaltry
TECHNICAL ARCHITECT AND DEVELOPER 
“The architectural openness and extensibility of the product, along with its performance and scalability ensured that Signal Sciences could support us well into the future. “
Daniel Leslie
DIRECTOR OF IT OPERATIONS
Modernize Your Application / API Protection While Lowering Your TCO
Your application footprint is growing more complex and varied with faster development cycles and the shift to cloud–whether private or public. Legacy rules-based web application firewalls (WAFs) don’t scale for the digital transformation world, and a next-gen approach is needed.
Signal Sciences Provides the industry leading NGWAF
that solves the 5 key problems of legacy WAFs:
False Positives
90% of Signal Sciences customers utilize full blocking mode within hours/days, rather than being stuck in monitor or “learning” mode due to false positives
Coverage
Far beyond OWASP Top Ten, Signal Sciences provides coverage over Malicious bots, Account Takeover/Credential Stuffing, API Abuse, App DDoS, Advanced Rate Limiting, Virtual Patching, and more
Performance
Signal Sciences patented performance guaranteeing architecture protects trillions of web requests per month at the most performance-sensitive global enterprises on the planet
Deploy Time
Measured in hours/days, not the months of legacy WAFs
Cost
Significantly lower TCO than legacy WAF solutions with no managed services tuning fees
Trusted by Leading Companies
Signal Sciences protects over 2+ trillion production requests per month from over 40,000 applications for industry-leading customers.
“Thanks to the smart blocking logic and the easy set up with Signal Sciences, we were able to be up and running within a short time period and without additional maintenance cost.”
Mihály Zágon, Engineering Manager, Prezi
Active Protection Legacy WAFs Can’t Match
Four Key Reasons Why Customers Choose Signal Sciences Over Legacy WAF
| Signal Sciences Next-Gen WAF | Legacy WAF | |
|---|---|---|
| Deploys in minutes across legacy and modern applications, APIs, containers, and serverless | ||
| Web Attack Coverage Beyond the OWASP Top 10: Malicious bots, Account Takeover/Credential Stuffing, API Abuse, DDoS, Advanced Rate Limiting, and more | ||
| 90% of customers run Signal Sciences in full blocking mode in production | ||
| Significantly lower TCO, no managed services fees |
The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) is a four-time Customers’ Choice for WAAP with a 4.9 out of 5 overall rating
Our customers have spoken: The Fastly Next-Gen WAF is the highest rated Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) vendor. We were named a 2022 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for WAAP based on detailed end-user testimonials. In addition, we are the only vendor to be named a Customers’ Choice four consecutive times and have an overall rating of 4.9 out of 5 stars (as of 31 January 2022 based on 267 reviews).
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