Protect Your Web Applications With Cloudflare WAF
Gartner "Customers' Choice" WAF
Cloudflare WAF Named a "Customers' Choice" for WAF in 2021 Gartner's Peer Insights report.
Fast and Precise Protection
New rules are active in seconds for instant protection unlike other WAFs that need 45 minutes or more to protect. Our network ensures customers are protected up to 10x faster than competitors.
Simple Deployment and Easy Management
Global WAF protection is in place in clicks. Nothing to deploy, no weeks-long training or professional services expenses.
Protect and accelerate your enterprise websites, apps, and teams.
WAF layered defenses
- Cloudflare managed rules offer advanced zero-day vulnerability protections.
- Core OWASP rules block familiar “Top 10” attack techniques.
- Custom rulesets deliver tailored protections to block any threat.
- Exposed credential checks monitor and block use of stolen/exposed credentials for account takeover.
- Sensitive data detection alerts on responses containing sensitive data.
- Advanced rate limiting prevents abuse, DDoS, brute force attempts along with API-centric controls.
- Flexible response options allow for blocking, logging, rate limiting or challenging.
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World-class application security from Cloudflare
The Cloudflare web application firewall (WAF) is the cornerstone of our advanced application security portfolio that keeps applications and APIs secure and productive, thwarts DDoS attacks, keeps bots at bay, detects anomalies and malicious payloads, all while monitoring for browser supply chain attacks.
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