Fastly Launches Edge Deployment Option for Industry's First Unified WAF

Fastly launches edge deployment option for Fastly Next-Gen WAF (developed by Signal Sciences). This marks a critical milestone in the integration of Signal Sciences' award-winning web application firewall (WAF) technology with Fastly's edge cloud network.

The unified offering protects applications and APIs anywhere they are located, and can be deployed on the widest range of architectures: from containers, on-prem, in the cloud and now at the edge, all from a single solution.

“Enterprises face a variety of challenges related to their security architecture, from managing and auditing technology stacks to implementing security policies and protections across disparate applications and heterogeneous environments,” he explains. Chris Rodríguez, director de Network Security Products and Strategies de IDC.

“Fastly is executing on its strategy to provide security in any location, making it an important choice for organizations that need a flexible WAF that protects business-critical applications and APIs across a breadth of deployment options,” he adds.

With other offerings on the market, companies are forced to manage different WAF products, depending on their varied deployment needs. This can be resource intensive and increase tool complexity and proliferation. However, customers of Fastly Next-Gen WAF They enjoy a single, highly efficient WAF solution that can be deployed both at the edge and in multiple other locations. All of these deployments can be managed within a single platform with a consolidated view of security data, unlocking visibility across organizations' entire application and API footprint.

“Extending Signal Sciences’ powerful WAF technology to include Fastly’s high-performance edge networking is an incredibly exciting milestone for us,” says Joshua Bixby, CEO de Fastly.

"Supporting variability in deployment options is important to our customers, and now we've launched it in a way that supports massive scaling at the edge. New applications, APIs and architectures are being built at immense speed to meet the expectations of a modern digital experience. To meet these demands, enterprises need a unified WAF solution that protects not only the applications they have today - on premises and in the cloud - but also those built at the edge in the future," continues Bixby. “With Compute@Edge powering Fastly’s Next-Gen WAF extension to the edge, customers get ubiquitous security that prevents unwanted activity from impacting their services and the speed, scale and stability of our edge network.”

In addition to high-impact integrations with security and DevOps, Fastly's Next-Gen WAF provides a flexibility and high value to its customers, including trusted technology that teams actually use (over 90% of Fastly customers run the next generation WAF in full lockdown mode); rapid deployment in hours, thanks to cloud-based architecture); and one greater visibility for faster remediation (regardless of where customers deploy their applications and APIs, the WAF provides visibility in production into how attackers try to abuse or misuse them).

Lastly, unlike older rules-based WAFs, Fastly Next-Gen WAF allows for a greater scalability and efficiency, as well as a lower total cost of ownership.