User Reviews of The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences)

Updated August 2025

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The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) review

reviewer2161107
Staff Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Room for improvement with user interface while competitive pricing impresses
It is managed through Infrastructure as Code, so all configurations can be managed in the code itself, which is beneficial. Because it uses rules, it is easy to set up, and we have many different sites where the configurations are straightforward. Though the UI is not very interactive, which is a downside, we can manage many things. The UI...
The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) review

reviewer2161107
Staff Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Offers Varnish Configuration Language (VCL) and provides enhanced dashboards,...
The initial setup was super easy. The migration was super easy. The only part we were missing was China cache. Other than that, it has everything Akamai was providing: image optimization, CDN, WAF, and all the other security aspects. The China cache was the one thing we were missing in Fastly, so we had to do it differently. Deployment was...

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