Web Application Firewalls (WAF)
Web application firewalls (WAF) help companies protect their web applications by filtering and monitoring HTTP traffic. +Show More
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Cloudflare |
Leader
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Satisfactory
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What We Do At Cloudflare, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal -- to help build a better Internet. We believe that with our talented team, smart technology and engaged users we can solve some of the biggest problems on the Internet. Just how big? We serve more web traffic than Twitter, Amazon, Apple, Instagram, Bing, & Wikipedia combined. Anytime we push code, it immediately affects over 200 million web surfers. Every day, more than 10,000 new customers sign-up for Cloudflare service. Every week, the average Internet user touches us more than 500 times. We serve data from over 102 points-of-presence around the world.
Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Number of case studies
200-300 case studies
Company's number of employees
4k-5k employees
Company's social media followers
1m-2m followers
Total funding
$250-500m
# of funding rounds
7
Latest funding date
March 12, 2019
Last funding amount
$100-250m
Company
Type of company
public
Founding year
2009
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Nginx |
Leader
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Satisfactory
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NGINX, Inc. is the company behind NGINX, the popular open source project trusted by more than 400 million sites. We offer a suite of technologies for developing and delivering modern applications. The NGINX Application Platform enables enterprises undergoing digital transformation to modernize legacy, monolithic applications as well as deliver new, microservices‑based applications. Companies like Netflix, Starbucks, and McDonalds rely on NGINX to reduce costs, improve resiliency, and speed innovation. NGINX investors include Blue Cloud Ventures, e.ventures, Goldman Sachs, Index Ventures, MSD Capital, NEA, Runa Capital, and Telstra Ventures. NGINX, Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, with an EMEA head office in Cork, Ireland and APAC head office in Singapore. Learn more at https://www.nginx.com/
Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Company's number of employees
100-200 employees
Company's social media followers
100k-1m followers
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HAProxy Enterprise Edition |
Leader
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Satisfactory
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HAProxy Technologies is the company behind HAProxy, the world’s fastest and most widely used software load balancer. Rapidly deploy HAProxy products to deliver websites and applications with the utmost performance, reliability and security at any scale and in any environment. Learn more at HAProxy.com
Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Number of case studies
5-10 case studies
Company's number of employees
100-200 employees
Company's social media followers
20k-30k followers
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2013
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Fastly |
Leader
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Satisfactory
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Fastly’s powerful and programmable edge cloud platform helps the world’s top brands deliver the fastest online experiences possible, while improving site performance, enhancing security, and empowering innovation at global scale. With world-class support that achieves 95%+ average annual customer satisfaction ratings, Fastly’s beloved suite of edge compute, delivery, and security offerings has been recognized as a leader by industry analysts such as IDC, Forrester and Gartner. Compared to legacy providers, Fastly’s powerful and modern network architecture is the fastest on the planet, empowering developers to deliver secure websites and apps at global scale with rapid time-to-market and industry-leading cost savings. Thousands of the world’s most prominent organizations trust Fastly to help them upgrade the internet experience, including Reddit, Pinterest, Stripe, Neiman Marcus, The New York Times, Epic Games, and GitHub.
Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Number of case studies
50-100 case studies
Company's number of employees
1k-2k employees
Company's social media followers
50k-100k followers
Total funding
$100-250m
# of funding rounds
7
Latest funding date
July 17, 2018
Last funding amount
$10-50m
Company
Type of company
public
Founding year
2011
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AWS WAF |
Leader
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Satisfactory
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AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect web applications from common web exploits that could affect application availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources.
Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Company's number of employees
100k-1m employees
Company's social media followers
10m-20m followers
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
1996
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Indusface WAS |
Challenger
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Satisfactory
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Indusface WAS (Web Application Scanner) provides comprehensive managed dynamic application security testing (DAST) solution. It is a zero-touch, non-intrusive cloud-based solution that provides daily monitoring for web applications, checking for systems and application vulnerabilities, and malware. Indusface WAS with its automated scans & manual pentesting done by certified security experts ensures none of the OWASP Top10, business logic vulnerabilities, and malware go unnoticed. With zero false-positive guarantee and comprehensive reporting with remediation guidance, Indusface web app scanning ensures developers to quickly fix vulnerabilities seamlessly.
Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Number of case studies
5-10 case studies
Company's number of employees
100-200 employees
Company's social media followers
10k-20k followers
Total funding
$5-10m
# of funding rounds
1
Latest funding date
April 23, 2020
Last funding amount
$5-10m
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2012
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Cloudbric |
Challenger
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Satisfactory
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Cloudbric is a cloud-based web security provider, offering an award-winning Web Application Firewall (WAF), DDoS protection, and SSL. Cloudbric offers security primarily to SMB websites that lack cybersecurity experience or can't afford expensive IT security solutions. Please visit www.cloudbric.com/partners to learn about our flexible business models.
Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Company's number of employees
20-30 employees
Company's social media followers
5k-10k followers
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Imperva Cloud Application Security |
Challenger
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Satisfactory
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Imperva Incapsula delivers an enterprise-grade Web Application Firewall to safeguard your site from the latest threats, an intelligent and instantly effective 360-degree anti-DDoS solutions (layers 3-4 and 7), a global CDN to speed up your website's load speed and minimize bandwidth usage and an array of performance monitoring and analytic services to provide insights about your website's security and performance.
Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Company's number of employees
1k-2k employees
Company's social media followers
50k-100k followers
Total funding
$50-100m
# of funding rounds
8
Latest funding date
June 30, 2019
Last funding amount
$10-50m
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2002
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall |
Challenger
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Satisfactory
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Eliminate application vulnerabilities and stop data breaches. You depend on applications everyday. They are how your customers and partners connect with you, and they are how your employees get their jobs done. Unfortunately, your applications remain one of the most commonly exploited threat vectors. Barracuda WAF protects your web, mobile and API applications from being compromised, and prevents data breaches— ensuring you maintain your reputation and your customer's confidence.
Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Company's number of employees
2k-3k employees
Company's social media followers
50k-100k followers
Total funding
$10-50m
# of funding rounds
5
Latest funding date
May 18, 2017
Last funding amount
$1-1m
Company
Type of company
delisted
Founding year
2003
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FortiWeb WAF |
Challenger
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Satisfactory
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FortiWeb WAF is a comprehensive, high-performance web application security service.
Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Company's social media followers
100k-1m followers
Total funding
$50-100m
# of funding rounds
3
Latest funding date
March 2, 2004
Last funding amount
$50-100m
Company
Type of company
public
Founding year
2000
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Sources
AIMultiple uses these data sources for ranking solutions and awarding badges in web application firewalls (WAF):
Web Application Firewalls (WAF) Leaders
According to the weighted combination of 4 metrics
What are web application firewalls (WAF)
customer satisfaction leaders?
Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the current web application firewalls (WAF) customer satisfaction leaders:
Which web application firewalls (WAF) solution provides the most customer satisfaction?
AIMultiple uses product and service reviews from multiple review platforms in determining customer satisfaction.
While deciding a product's level of customer satisfaction, AIMultiple takes into account its number of reviews, how reviewers rate it and the recency of reviews.
- Number of reviews is important because it is easier to get a small number of high ratings than a high number of them.
- Recency is important as products are always evolving.
- Reviews older than 5 years are not taken into consideration
- older than 12 months have reduced impact in average ratings in line with their date of publishing.
What are web application firewalls (WAF)
market leaders?
Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the current web application firewalls (WAF) market leaders:
Which one has collected the most reviews?
AIMultiple uses multiple datapoints in identifying market leaders:
- Product line revenue (when available)
- Number of reviews
- Number of case studies
- Number and experience of employees
- Social media presence and engagement
What are the most mature web application firewalls (WAF)?
Which one has the most employees?
Which web application firewalls (WAF) companies have the most employees?
482 employees work for a typical company in this solution category which is 459 more than the number of employees for a typical company in the average solution category.
In most cases, companies need at least 10 employees to serve other businesses with a proven tech product or service. 34 companies with >10 employees are offering web application firewalls (waf). Top 3 products are developed by companies with a total of 300k employees. The largest company in this domain is Oracle with more than 100,000 employees. Oracle provides the web application firewalls (WAF) solution: Oracle Dyn Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Insights
What are the most common words describing web application firewalls (WAF)?
This data is collected from customer reviews for all web application firewalls (WAF) companies. The most positive word describing web application firewalls (WAF) is “Easy to use” that is used in 4% of the reviews. The most negative one is “Difficult” with which is used in 2% of all the web application firewalls (WAF) reviews.
What is the average customer size?
According to customer reviews, most common company size for web application firewalls (WAF) customers is 1-50 Employees. Customers with 1-50 Employees make up 54% of web application firewalls (WAF) customers. For an average Cybersecurity solution, customers with 1-50 Employees make up 18% of total customers.
Customer Evaluation
These scores are the average scores collected from customer reviews for all web application firewalls (WAF). Web Application Firewalls (WAF) are most positively evaluated in terms of "Overall" but falls behind in "Customer Service".
Where are web application firewalls (WAF) vendors' HQs located?
Trends
What is the level of interest in web application firewalls (WAF)?
This category was searched on average for 131.4k times per month on search engines in 2024. This number has decreased to 0 in 2025. If we compare with other cybersecurity solutions, a typical solution was searched 918 times in 2024 and this decreased to 0 in 2025.