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What do you like best about Fastly Next-Gen WAF?

We use Next GEN WAF and BotProtection services in our Company its fast and reliable service when coming to support the product and I really like this compre to the old F5 WAF/ASM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fastly Next-Gen WAF?

The Intigarion between the internal apps would be more ease and open source. also, intigrating the sso would be more reliable and all managment would be in one place. apart from traditional firewall. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fastly Next-Gen WAF solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have huge set of HealthCare data being manged in our data center and we use Fastly to filter the traffic incoming to our webserver. We have used this and saved a lot of code inejections and other http injections into our date center and saved from Vulnerbilites. I have these tagged to solarWinds and helpful to find the support ids and easy fetch to resolve the tagging and blockage part. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Fastly Next-Gen WAF Overview

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What is Fastly Next-Gen WAF?

The Fastly Next-Gen WAF provides advanced protection for your applications, APIs, and microservices, wherever they live, from a single unified solution. Built on Fastly’s proprietary SmartParse detection, it is highly effective at identifying and defending against advanced attacks without the false positives or constant rule tuning typically associated with common WAFs. Increase protection while keeping your overhead and risk of disruption low with Fastly’s Next-Gen WAF.

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Fastly Next-Gen WAF globally distributed network provides rapid protection against web application vulnerabilities, DDoS, and botnet attacks. Enforce security rules at the edge with real-time insights into suspicious traffic and the ability to update your configuration in milliseconds.

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Fastly
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Automann T.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
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"Easy to deploy and use via their GUI"
The Fastly Next-Gen WAF is relatively easy to setup and implement. Very good customer support (and team) was provided to us and our development tea...
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Likitha K.
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Likitha K.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Next-Gen WAF can now be deployed in different ways"
Its easy to deploy and we have control over the data that we share
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Shakir K.
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Shakir K.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"It’s an easy to use and provides the better security to application, API and devops environment"
It's very easy to use. It can handle all types of attack over applications, devops environments and API wherever it's located
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What do you like best about Fastly Next-Gen WAF?

It is unable to provide protection, for applications through its poor web application firewall (WAF), and the configuring rules and potential cost increases are difficult. There are also drawbacks related to monitoring data traffic and vulnerabilities to security issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fastly Next-Gen WAF?

The user interface of Fastly Next Gen WAF is overwhelming and cumbersome to navigate. Its design lacks working making it time consuming to set up and manage rules. The customer support teams responsiveness is also lacking, which makes it difficult to obtain assistance, for refining configurations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fastly Next-Gen WAF solving and how is that benefiting you?

Fastly Next Gen WAF solves the issue of security by providing poor time analytical reporting. The lack of documentation hinders the optimization of the capabilities provided by the WAF. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Fastly Next-Gen WAF?

It's very easy to use.

It can handle all types of attack over applications, devops environments and API wherever it's located Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fastly Next-Gen WAF?

As of now nothing as it's a robust solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fastly Next-Gen WAF solving and how is that benefiting you?

After applying the fastly next gen wef you can sleep peacefully as it can handle all of the attacks either it's an injection style or it's a credential stuffing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Fastly Next-Gen WAF?

Gen WAF provides Single Sign On (SSO) integration. Having all management tasks, in one place is an advantage for me. But prices are high which is its drawback. It is not good enough for securing our web application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fastly Next-Gen WAF?

There is the availability of documentation and tutorials. This make it difficult for users to fully utilize all the features and capabilities provided by Fastly Next Gen WAF. These limitations potentially stops its reliability in safeguarding against emerging threats. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fastly Next-Gen WAF solving and how is that benefiting you?

The support teams response time for configuration refinements is slow causing delays in issue resolution. Fastly Next Gen WAF monitors the issue of security rules by providing real time analytical reporting but its costly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Fastly Next-Gen WAF?

It provides excellent security to web applications from different types of attack. It provides highly customizable filters that can be configured in no time based on requirement, also it has excellent customer support that will help to define rules/ policy quickly.in my project i have used this to safeguard applications from CORS attacks, SQL injection, DDos etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fastly Next-Gen WAF?

Pricing can be little con for small projects. As sime complex config changes require tech support help, that will incur more charges. As i have insurance project, pricing is no issue for my client. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fastly Next-Gen WAF solving and how is that benefiting you?

It provides easily configurable filters that helps to define rules & policy quickly. It has complete web security package to safeguard our web application from multiple types of attack. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Fastly Next-Gen WAF?

Fastly Origin Connect allows us to use the event monitoring feature and have a full view of our traffic during promotions, site launches, etc. It also allows us to quickly find and troubleshoot any errors with traffic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fastly Next-Gen WAF?

With what I use Fastly for, I do not have any dislikes of the service. It's simple to use and we've never run into any issues with the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fastly Next-Gen WAF solving and how is that benefiting you?

Fastly allows us to monitor data and responses in real-time for any of our domains all in one place. I can say that our team is more productive using this service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Fastly Next-Gen WAF?

Best in class dashboard suited for detailed display of web application attacks and DDos attacks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fastly Next-Gen WAF?

Nothing as such . Nothing comes to my mind as dislikes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fastly Next-Gen WAF solving and how is that benefiting you?

The custom signals and the threshold blocking signatures are a great benefit when it comes to weighing the availability of services against security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Fastly Next-Gen WAF?

Its easy to deploy and we have control over the data that we share Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fastly Next-Gen WAF?

Issue with monitoring data traffic and it can be vulnerable for security issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fastly Next-Gen WAF solving and how is that benefiting you?

Its providing a web interface which is user friendly. It also allows you to create multiple workspaces Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Fastly Next-Gen WAF?

Here are some points below that I like about DDoS mitigation:

1. Behavior-based detection for the highest accuracy.

2. Early detection of network abuse and intrusion in peacetime.

3. Most granular SLA - Fastest DDoS attack mitigation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fastly Next-Gen WAF?

Dislike about the DDoS is that the tech support is not supportive, Response time is higher than usual, and Licensing cost is very high compared to other products. So these are some pain points of the customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fastly Next-Gen WAF solving and how is that benefiting you?

Inspection and detection are excellent, and they take action per the policy, which makes the environment attack; free implementation is also very smooth; all the points mentioned in the installation guide make for smooth performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Fastly Next-Gen WAF?

Users of your site will be able to open your website on https without any extra setup on their side. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fastly Next-Gen WAF?

If you have more than two hostnames (i.e. domains plus subdomains), you hit kind of a tall wall in pricing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fastly Next-Gen WAF solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's a devops thing, you need to (1) get a certificate from a certificate authority and (2) set it up on your reverse proxy. Fastly TLS does these two things, and it integrates with your existing Fastly deliver service. Or their new edge compute system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Fastly Next-Gen WAF?

The Fastly Next-Gen WAF is relatively easy to setup and implement. Very good customer support (and team) was provided to us and our development team as well. Easy to use GUI as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fastly Next-Gen WAF?

Haven't had any difficulties so far with our experience using the WAF product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fastly Next-Gen WAF solving and how is that benefiting you?

We had problems with attaks, but this solution provides attack protection, including DDOS protection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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