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The Forrester Wave LICENSED FOR INDIVIDUAL USE ONLY The Forrester Wave™: Web Application Firewalls, Q1 2020 The 10 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up by Sandy Carielli and Amy DeMartine February 26, 2020 | Updated: March 6, 2020 Why Read This Report Key Takeaways In our 33-criterion evaluation of web application Akamai Technologies And Imperva Cloud WAF firewall (WAF) providers, we identified the 10 Lead The Pack most significant ones — Akamai Technologies, Forrester’s research uncovered a market in which Alibaba Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Barracuda Akamai Technologies and Imperva Cloud WAF Networks, Cloudflare, F5 Networks, Imperva, are Leaders; Radware, Barracuda Networks, Microsoft, Radware, and Rohde & Schwarz and F5 Advanced WAF are Strong Performers; Cybersecurity — and researched, analyzed, Imperva WAF Gateway, F5 Silverline, Amazon and scored them. This report shows how Web Services, and Alibaba Cloud are Contenders; each provider measures up and helps security and Microsoft, Cloudflare, and Rohde & Schwarz professionals select the right one for their needs. Cybersecurity are Challengers. Expanded Protection, Threat Intel, And SDLC Feedback Are Key Differentiators As development, security, and operations (DevSecOps) takes hold, WAFs that enable security leaders to quickly identify and mitigate a wide range of application threats will lead the pack. Vendors that can extend protections into APIs and client-side components; that offer timely, integrated threat intelligence; and that natively hook into a customer’s security and development processes position themselves to successfully integrate into the DevSecOps toolchain and delight their customers. This PDF is only licensed for individual use when downloaded from forrester.com or reprints.forrester.com. All other distribution prohibited. FORRESTER.COM FOR SECURITY & RISK PROFESSIONALS The Forrester Wave™: Web Application Firewalls, Q1 2020 The 10 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up by Sandy Carielli and Amy DeMartine with Stephanie Balaouras, Matthew Flug, and Peggy Dostie February 26, 2020 | Updated: March 6, 2020 Table Of Contents Related Research Documents 2 To Stay Relevant, WAFs Must Offer More Lay Your Security Tech Foundation Than OWASP Top 10 Detection Now Tech: Web Application Firewalls, Q4 2019 3 Evaluation Summary Top Cybersecurity Threats In 2020 7 Vendor Offerings 8 Vendor Profiles Leaders Share reports with colleagues. Strong Performers Enhance your membership with Research Share. Contenders Challengers 12 Evaluation Overview Vendor Inclusion Criteria 14 Supplemental Material Forrester Research, Inc., 60 Acorn Park Drive, Cambridge, MA 02140 USA +1 617-613-6000 | Fax: +1 617-613-5000 | forrester.com © 2020 Forrester Research, Inc. Opinions reflect judgment at the time and are subject to change. Forrester®, Technographics®, Forrester Wave, TechRadar, and Total Economic Impact are trademarks of Forrester Research, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies. Unauthorized copying or distributing is a violation of copyright law. [email protected] or +1 866-367-7378 FOR SECURITY & RISK PROFESSIONALS February 26, 2020 | Updated: March 6, 2020 The Forrester Wave™: Web Application Firewalls, Q1 2020 The 10 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up To Stay Relevant, WAFs Must Offer More Than OWASP Top 10 Detection Web application firewalls (WAFs) initially focused on protecting web applications from common vulnerabilities like SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and other members of the OWASP Top 10. WAFs remain a fundamental technology for application security protection, but customer requirements have changed. While the OWASP Top 10 remains a core use case, customers expect WAFs to provide protection against an ever-broader spate of application attacks, including API-based attacks, client- side attacks, and even bots. Furthermore, the adoption of DevSecOps means that WAFs must integrate with the rest of the application development and security infrastructure and help security leaders quickly identify and respond to application threats. Organizations want more from their WAF providers — and the degree of negative feedback from vendor-supplied references in this Forrester Wave warns that, unless vendors adapt, the WAF market is ripe for disruption. As a result of these trends, WAF customers should look for providers that: › Extend beyond traditional WAF protections. As the range of attacks against web applications increases, WAF providers that merely focus on protecting against the OWASP Top 10 won’t remain relevant. Over the past year, organizations such as Hostinger and Xiaomi have been subject to attacks via their APIs, and attackers have breached thousands of sites, including Macy’s and the Baseball Hall of Fame, through client-side components.1 The leading WAF providers must provide an integrated approach to old and emerging attack approaches by supporting OAUTH, allowing users to import API configuration files in multiple formats, and detecting header and referrer verifications. › Offer enriched threat intelligence. Robust protection from zero-day attacks and emerging threats requires an extensive threat intelligence function combined with the ability to automatically push new, pretested rules to users. WAF providers must leverage a wide range of external threat feeds and augment them with a dedicated internal team that proactively identifies threats and applies machine learning to analyze traffic patterns across the customer base. Customers must ask WAF vendors not only about threat intelligence sources but about how rapidly that intelligence is analyzed and fed into new rules. › Integrate natively with the software development lifecycle (SDLC). While WAFs live in the deployment side of the application security landscape, developers and security teams leverage WAF detections to prioritize additional safeguards in developed code. Firms purchase expensive threat feeds but often ignore the ones they get for free and that are tailor-made for them — the attack information from their protection technologies. Developers use this attack data to prioritize what security flaws to fix first or to add additional production protections when fixes are not imminent, such as custom WAF rules. Look for providers that offer multiple out-of-the-box (OOTB) integrations with DevOps tools to fit into the deployment process, alerting and notification tools to reach application owners, and prerelease scanning tools to create and modify WAF rules. © 2020 Forrester Research, Inc. Unauthorized copying or distributing is a violation of copyright law. 2 [email protected] or +1 866-367-7378 FOR SECURITY & RISK PROFESSIONALS February 26, 2020 | Updated: March 6, 2020 The Forrester Wave™: Web Application Firewalls, Q1 2020 The 10 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up Evaluation Summary The Forrester Wave™ evaluation highlights Leaders, Strong Performers, Contenders, and Challengers. It’s an assessment of the top vendors in the market and does not represent the entire vendor landscape. You’ll find more information about this market in our “Now Tech: Web Application Firewalls, Q4 2019.” We intend this evaluation to be a starting point only and encourage clients to view product evaluations and adapt criteria weightings using the Excel-based vendor comparison tool (see Figure 1 and see Figure 2). Click the link at the beginning of this report on Forrester.com to download the tool. © 2020 Forrester Research, Inc. Unauthorized copying or distributing is a violation of copyright law. 3 [email protected] or +1 866-367-7378 FOR SECURITY & RISK PROFESSIONALS February 26, 2020 | Updated: March 6, 2020 The Forrester Wave™: Web Application Firewalls, Q1 2020 The 10 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up FIGURE 1 Forrester Wave™: Web Application Firewalls, Q1 2020 Web Application Firewalls Q1 2020 Strong Challengers Contenders Performers Leaders Stronger current offering Akamai Technologies F5 Advanced WAF Imperva Cloud Barracuda Networks WAF Radware F5 Silverline Rohde & Schwarz Imperva WAF Gateway Cybersecurity Cloudare Alibaba Cloud Amazon Microsoft Web Services Weaker current offering Weaker strategy Stronger strategy Market presence © 2020 Forrester Research, Inc. Unauthorized copying or distributing is a violation of copyright law. 4 [email protected] or +1 866-367-7378 FOR SECURITY & RISK PROFESSIONALS February 26, 2020 | Updated: March 6, 2020 The Forrester Wave™: Web Application Firewalls, Q1 2020 The 10 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up FIGURE 2 Forrester Wave™: Web Application Firewalls Scorecard, Q1 2020 eb Services s echnologies e ester’ Forr weighting Akamai T Alibaba CloudAmazon W Barracuda NetworksCloudar F5 Advanced WAF Current offering 50% 4.07 1.81 1.21 3.18 1.93 3.25 Attack detection 30% 4.40 1.80 1.05 3.90 1.80 4.50 Attack response 20% 3.80 2.40 0.70 3.60 2.40 3.60 Management interface 15% 4.60 2.15 2.40 2.00 2.60 4.40 Zero-day attacks 10% 3.60 1.40 1.10 2.40 1.60 0.50 Reporting and analytics 15% 4.00 1.60 1.30 3.40 1.00 1.90 Feedback loops 10% 3.40 0.90 0.90 2.40 2.10 1.80 Strategy 50% 3.76 2.20 3.60 2.24 1.28 2.24 Product strategy 40% 3.80 1.00 3.00 3.00 1.60 1.60 Market approach 20% 5.00 3.00 5.00 1.00 1.00 3.00 Execution roadmap 10% 1.00 1.00 3.00 3.00 1.00 1.00 Training and community 10% 3.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 3.00 Performance 20% 4.20 5.00 5.00 2.20 1.20 3.00 Market presence 0% 4.58 1.84 3.10 3.70 3.72 3.09 Installed base 70% 4.40 2.20 4.00 4.00 3.60 2.70 Revenue
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