According to Gartner, “Cloud WAF services are becoming the preferred choice to protect public-facing web apps. Security and risk management leaders should keep in mind that business-critical and mobile apps require more stringent security capabilities than simply bundling basic protections in a cloud WAF service.”*
Cloudflare is in the top 3 vendors in two primary use cases identified by Gartner in their Critical Capabilities for Cloud WAF report:
- Public-facing web applications (3.44/5)
- Web scale critical business applications respectively (3.31/5)
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*Gartner, “Critical Capabilities for Cloud Web Application Firewalls Services”, Analyst(s): Jeremy D'Hoinne, Ayal Tirosh, Claudio Neiva, Adam Hils, December 6, 2018.”
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