Cloudflare named a Leader in WAF by Forrester
Sep 27, 2022Michael Tremante
Summary
This post announces Cloudflare's recognition as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Web Application Firewalls, Q3 2022 report. It highlights Cloudflare's highest scores in strategy, innovation, management UI, rule creation, Log4Shell response, incident investigation, and security operations feedback loops. The post details the WAF's rapid response to the Log4Shell vulnerability, deploying managed rules within 17 hours globally to protect customers. It also emphasizes the WAF's role in protecting web applications from attacks, securing APIs, stopping DDoS attacks, blocking bots, and monitoring for third-party JavaScript attacks.
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