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Product	Fastly Next-Gen WAF by Fastly View product	Contrast Assess by Contrast Security View product
Overview
What it is	Fastly Next-Gen WAF from Fastly focuses on Next-Gen WAF. Key capabilities: automated production blocking. Compare it with the leading WAF alternatives.	Free trial available. Contrast Assess by Contrast Security offers dataflow tracking. Compare features, use cases and leading Application Security Testing alternatives.
Product type	SmartParse Runtime Application & API Web Security Platform	Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST) Solution
Best for	Financial Services, Retail, SaaS, High-Tech	Financial Services, Technology, Healthcare, Telecommunications, Banking & Finance, Insurance
Pricing
Pricing model	Contact Vendor	Contact Vendor
Free trial	Free trial: yes	Free trial: yes
Deployment
Deployment options	Cloud	SaaSCloudHybridOn-Premise
Deployment details	Edge Cloud; Envoy/NGINX Sidecar; Kubernetes Ingress; Cloud Edge; Container Sidecar; Web Server Plugin	Cloud SaaS; On-premises; Hybrid; SaaS; Self-hosted enterprise
Data residency	Global / Edge Network	US; EU; Customer private cloud
Key features
What it offers	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	Continuous runtime instrumentation Zero-false-positive IAST Exact line-of-code diagnosis Dataflow tracking Automated CI/CD pipeline gating Developer IDE integration DevSecOps integration Continuous security testing
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	Multi-CloudKubernetesEnvoyWeb ServersEdge	Web applicationsMicroservicesAPIs
Compliance	SOC 2 Type IIPCI-DSS Level 1HIPAA	SOC 2 Type IIISO 27001PCI DSS Section 6.5OWASP Top 10 compliance
Integrations & coverage
Integrations	Fastly EdgeEnvoyNGINXKubernetesAWSAzureGCP	JenkinsGitHub ActionsGitLab CIJiraAzure DevOpsIntelliJVS Code
Industries	Financial ServicesRetailSaaSHigh-Tech	Financial ServicesTechnologyHealthcareTelecommunicationsBanking & FinanceInsurance
Regions	Global	Global
Vendor
Company	Fastly	Contrast Security
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, USA	Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Company size	1,000+	501-1,000
Founded	2011	2014

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

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Overview

What it is

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.

Contrast Assess

Free trial available. Contrast Assess by Contrast Security offers dataflow tracking. Compare features, use cases and leading Application Security Testing alternatives.

Product type

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

SmartParse Runtime Application & API Web Security Platform

Contrast Assess

Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST) Solution

Best for

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Financial Services, Retail, SaaS, High-Tech

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Financial Services, Technology, Healthcare, Telecommunications, Banking & Finance, Insurance

Pricing

Pricing model

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Contact Vendor

Contrast Assess

Contact Vendor

Free trial

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Contrast Assess

Deployment

Deployment options

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Cloud

Contrast Assess

SaaSCloudHybridOn-Premise

Deployment details

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

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

Contrast Assess

Cloud SaaS; On-premises; Hybrid; SaaS; Self-hosted enterprise

Data residency

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Global / Edge Network

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US; EU; Customer private cloud

Key features

What it offers

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

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Continuous runtime instrumentation
Zero-false-positive IAST
Exact line-of-code diagnosis
Dataflow tracking
Automated CI/CD pipeline gating
Developer IDE integration
DevSecOps integration
Continuous security testing

Platform & access

API access

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Contrast Assess

Single sign-on (SSO)

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Contrast Assess

Role-based access (RBAC)

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Contrast Assess

Multi-tenant

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Contrast Assess

Mobile app

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Contrast Assess

Supported platforms

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Multi-CloudKubernetesEnvoyWeb ServersEdge

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Web applicationsMicroservicesAPIs

Compliance

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

SOC 2 Type IIPCI-DSS Level 1HIPAA

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SOC 2 Type IIISO 27001PCI DSS Section 6.5OWASP Top 10 compliance

Integrations & coverage

Integrations

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Fastly EdgeEnvoyNGINXKubernetesAWSAzureGCP

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JenkinsGitHub ActionsGitLab CIJiraAzure DevOpsIntelliJVS Code

Industries

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Financial ServicesRetailSaaSHigh-Tech

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Financial ServicesTechnologyHealthcareTelecommunicationsBanking & FinanceInsurance

Regions

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Global

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Global

Vendor

Company

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Fastly

Contrast Assess

Contrast Security

Headquarters

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

San Francisco, California, USA

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Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Company size

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

1,000+

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501-1,000

Founded

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

2011

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2014