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Product	Contrast Protect by Contrast Security View product	Fastly Next-Gen WAF by Fastly View product
Overview
What it is	Contrast Protect: inside-out application defense and zero-day exploit blocking. Built for production application defense. Compare Application Security alternatives.	Fastly Next-Gen WAF from Fastly focuses on Next-Gen WAF. Key capabilities: automated production blocking. Compare it with the leading WAF alternatives.
Product type	Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP) Solution	SmartParse Runtime Application & API Web Security Platform
Best for	Financial Services, Healthcare, E-Commerce, Insurance, Government, Retail & E-Commerce, Public Sector	Financial Services, Retail, SaaS, High-Tech
Pricing
Pricing model	Contact Vendor	Contact Vendor
Free trial	Free trial: yes	Free trial: yes
Deployment
Deployment options	SaaSCloudHybridOn-Premise	Cloud
Deployment details	Cloud; On-premises; Hybrid; Cloud SaaS; On-premises; Hybrid	Edge Cloud; Envoy/NGINX Sidecar; Kubernetes Ingress; Cloud Edge; Container Sidecar; Web Server Plugin
Data residency	United States; European Union	Global / Edge Network
Key features
What it offers	Inside-out application defense Zero-day exploit blocking SQLi and command injection protection Contextual attack analysis SIEM/SOAR integration Low latency overhead Production application defense Zero-day exploit mitigation	SmartParse threshold detection Automated production blocking Virtually zero false positives Flexible edge/agent/sidecar deployment Next-Gen WAF Automated OWASP Top 10 blocking API security micro-firewalling
Platform & access
API access	API access: yes	API access: yes
Single sign-on (SSO)	SSO: yes	SSO: yes
Role-based access (RBAC)	RBAC: yes	RBAC: yes
Multi-tenant	Multi-tenant: yes	Multi-tenant: yes
Mobile app	Mobile app: no	Mobile app: no
Supported platforms	Production web serversCloud containersKubernetes microservicesServerless	Multi-CloudKubernetesEnvoyWeb ServersEdge
Compliance	SOC 2 Type IIISO 27001PCI DSS Requirement 6.6HIPAA	SOC 2 Type IIPCI-DSS Level 1HIPAA
Integrations & coverage
Integrations	SplunkDatadogSumo LogicIBM QRadarMicrosoft SentinelPagerDuty	Fastly EdgeEnvoyNGINXKubernetesAWSAzureGCP
Industries	Financial ServicesHealthcareE-CommerceInsuranceGovernmentRetail & E-Commerce+1 more	Financial ServicesRetailSaaSHigh-Tech
Regions	Global	Global
Vendor
Company	Contrast Security	Fastly
Headquarters	Baltimore, Maryland, USA	San Francisco, California, USA
Company size	501-1,000	1,000+
Founded	2014	2011

Contrast Protect

by Contrast Security

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Fastly Next-Gen WAF

by Fastly

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Overview

What it is

Contrast Protect

Contrast Protect: inside-out application defense and zero-day exploit blocking. Built for production application defense. Compare Application Security alternatives.

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Fastly Next-Gen WAF from Fastly focuses on Next-Gen WAF. Key capabilities: automated production blocking. Compare it with the leading WAF alternatives.

Product type

Contrast Protect

Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP) Solution

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

SmartParse Runtime Application & API Web Security Platform

Best for

Contrast Protect

Financial Services, Healthcare, E-Commerce, Insurance, Government, Retail & E-Commerce, Public Sector

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Financial Services, Retail, SaaS, High-Tech

Pricing

Pricing model

Contrast Protect

Contact Vendor

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Contact Vendor

Free trial

Contrast Protect

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Deployment

Deployment options

Contrast Protect

SaaSCloudHybridOn-Premise

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Cloud

Deployment details

Contrast Protect

Cloud; On-premises; Hybrid; Cloud SaaS; On-premises; Hybrid

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Edge Cloud; Envoy/NGINX Sidecar; Kubernetes Ingress; Cloud Edge; Container Sidecar; Web Server Plugin

Data residency

Contrast Protect

United States; European Union

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Global / Edge Network

Key features

What it offers

Contrast Protect

Inside-out application defense
Zero-day exploit blocking
SQLi and command injection protection
Contextual attack analysis
SIEM/SOAR integration
Low latency overhead
Production application defense
Zero-day exploit mitigation

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

SmartParse threshold detection
Automated production blocking
Virtually zero false positives
Flexible edge/agent/sidecar deployment
Next-Gen WAF
Automated OWASP Top 10 blocking
API security micro-firewalling

Platform & access

API access

Contrast Protect

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Single sign-on (SSO)

Contrast Protect

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Role-based access (RBAC)

Contrast Protect

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Multi-tenant

Contrast Protect

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Mobile app

Contrast Protect

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Supported platforms

Contrast Protect

Production web serversCloud containersKubernetes microservicesServerless

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Multi-CloudKubernetesEnvoyWeb ServersEdge

Compliance

Contrast Protect

SOC 2 Type IIISO 27001PCI DSS Requirement 6.6HIPAA

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

SOC 2 Type IIPCI-DSS Level 1HIPAA

Integrations & coverage

Integrations

Contrast Protect

SplunkDatadogSumo LogicIBM QRadarMicrosoft SentinelPagerDuty

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Fastly EdgeEnvoyNGINXKubernetesAWSAzureGCP

Industries

Contrast Protect

Financial ServicesHealthcareE-CommerceInsuranceGovernmentRetail & E-Commerce+1 more

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Financial ServicesRetailSaaSHigh-Tech

Regions

Contrast Protect

Global

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Global

Vendor

Company

Contrast Protect

Contrast Security

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Fastly

Headquarters

Contrast Protect

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

San Francisco, California, USA

Company size

Contrast Protect

501-1,000

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

1,000+

Founded

Contrast Protect

2014

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

2011