Cloudflare receives highest placement in the “Ability to Execute” axis and furthest placement for its completeness of vision in the Challengers’ quadrant, in the 2020 “Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls” report.
Cloudflare’s Web Application Firewall (WAF) is an integral part of Cloudflare’s integrated cloud-based security solution - designed to secure any combination of platforms, including public cloud, private cloud, on-premise, SaaS applications, and IoT devices. Cloudflare protects approximately 25 million Internet properties for its customers which range from ~16% of Fortune 1,000 companies that require enterprise-grade security solutions to individual developers and small businesses.
Cloudflare's Web Application Firewall advantage that fuels customer and product momentum:
1) Gartner, “Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls”, Analyst(s): Jeremy D'Hoinne, Adam Hils, John Watts, Rajpreet Kaur, October 19, 2020.
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