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We performed a comparison between Symantec Web Application Firewall and The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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"The setup was straightforward.""The interface is user-friendly.""The solution has an up-to-date data repository to deal with external threats."

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"The product's most valuable feature is its ability to set up the rules easily.""When configuring a web application firewall using Signal Sciences, we configure a rule whereby no one except a few people can access the application."

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"I'm not convinced that it's necessary the best solution going forward in the future.""Sometimes scanning slows down the endpoints.""It would be an improvement if the management dashboards were not reliant upon Java."

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"Even if we create some custom rules, Signal Sciences cannot capture some of the malicious traffic.""The areas that could be improved in Signal Sciences include the effectiveness of rules, as many didn't function optimally and required custom rule-writing to address bypasses for WAF."

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  • "Signal Sciences is pretty cheap compared to other solutions."
  • "The product has an affordable cost."
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    Symantec WAF, Blue Coat Protecting Web Applications
    Signal Sciences Next-Gen WAF, Signal Sciences RASP
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    Overview

    The Symantec Web Application Firewall (WAF) enables you to secure and accelerate your web applications.

    The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) provides web application and API protection, RASP, rate limiting, bot protection and DDoS purpose built to eliminate the challenges of legacy WAF.

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    Chef, Adobe, Datadog, Etsy, GrubHub, Vimeo, SendGrid, Under Armour, Duo, AppNexus
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    Symantec Web Application Firewall is ranked 38th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) while The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) is ranked 28th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 2 reviews. Symantec Web Application Firewall is rated 8.4, while The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Symantec Web Application Firewall writes "An excellent up-to-date data repository handling external threats successfully". On the other hand, the top reviewer of The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) writes "A good solution to implement web application firewall for applications". Symantec Web Application Firewall is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), whereas The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) is most compared with AWS WAF, Cloudflare, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Azure Web Application Firewall and Akamai App and API Protector.

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