ANALYST REPORT

Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) in 2021

Fastly is named a Challenger, building off of Signal Sciences’ two consecutive years as a Visionary.

Fastly’s web application and API protection (WAAP) platform defends applications through real-time attack detection and visibility across any environment. With the acquisition of Signal Sciences, we elevated our security offerings by combining next-gen web application firewall (WAF) and Fastly’s cloud delivery network (CDN) technology.

Fastly is honored to be positioned in the Challenger quadrant in recognition of our expanded ability to execute and completeness of vision for advanced web protection. We believe this milestone is a testament to our extreme focus on solving security challenges for customers.

Leverage industry research when choosing your application security solution:

  • How Fastly’s WAAP compares to 9 vendors in the market
  • Key decision-making criteria when choosing a WAF
  • Vendor ratings: strengths & cautions
  • The WAAP industry landscape

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Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Application and API Protection, Jeremy D'Hoinne, Rajpreet Kaur, John Watts, Adam Hils, Shilpi Handa, 20 September 2021
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Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls, by Jeremy D'Hoinne, Adam Hils, Rajpreet Kaur, John Watts, 19 October 2020
Recognized as Signal Sciences in 2019-2020. Fastly completed the acquisition of Signal Sciences on October 1, 2020. For more information visit the press release here.