Fastly Next-Gen WAF Reviews & Product Details

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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Time to Implement

1 month

Perceived Cost

$$$$$

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Vladimir M.

Senior Integration Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/9/2026

"Perfect API Protection"

5/5

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

Protect API for my project! Perfect product no complains Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fastly Next-Gen WAF?

No any complaints abot product, fast and efficient product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mason B.

Customer Service

Entertainment

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/14/2023

"Unreliable Security, Slow Support"

0.5/5

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.

Shakir K.

Senior Broadcast and streaming engineer, Network operation Centre (NOC)

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/24/2024

"It’s an easy to use and provides the better security to application, API and devops environment"

5/5

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.

Slobodan O.

Advisor

Food & Beverages

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/9/2023

"SSO integration with high pricing"

3/5

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.

Avinash A.

Network Security Specialist

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/24/2023

"Good SAAS in the Market with advance threat management and application security."

4/5

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.

Anandb K.

Team Lead

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/18/2023

"Excellent WAF tool for complete piece of Mind"

4/5

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.

Hanna m.

SEO Specialist

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/21/2023

"Simplifies & Streamlines Our Process"

3/5

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.

ansuman s.

Security Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/28/2023

"Best suited web application firewall for modern day cyber attacks"

5/5

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.

Likitha K.

Training Specialist

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/16/2023

"Next-Gen WAF can now be deployed in different ways"

4.5/5

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.

sumit s.

Network Security Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/17/2023

"DDoS Mitigation at Ease"

5/5

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.