Find out what your peers are saying about Fastly, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Akamai and others in Web Application Firewall (WAF). Updated: November 2024.
What is a web application firewall (WAF)? A web application firewall, or WAF, helps protect web applications by filtering and monitoring HTTP traffic between a web application and the internet.
We use it to protect all our public-hosted sites. It's a replacement for Akamai. We migrated from Akamai to Fastly.
We used Signal Sciences to implement a web application firewall for some of our applications.