Cloudflare named a Leader in WAF by Forrester

Forrester has recognized Cloudflare as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Web Application Firewalls, Q3 2022 report. The report evaluated 12 providers on 24 criteria across current offering, strategy and market presence. Cloudflare received the highest score of all assessed vendors in the strategy category and also received the highest possible scores in 10 criteria, including Innovation Management, UIRule creation and modification, Log4Shell response, incident investigation, and security operations feedback loops. The report highlights that "Cloudflare Web Application Firewall shines in configuration and rule creation", "Cloudflare stands out for its active online user community and its associated response time metrics", and "Cloudflare is a top choice for those prioritizing usability and looking for a unified application security platform." The core value of any WAF is to keep web applications safe from external attacks by stopping any compromise attempt. Cloudflare's fast response to the Log4Shell vulnerability, which affected the popular Apache Log4J software, helped protect its customers against exploit attempts in less than 17 hours globally.