Next-Gen WAF

These articles explain how to use the Fastly Next-Gen WAF.


API docs

Have access to the Next-Gen WAF control panel? Check out our Next-Gen WAF API docs. Otherwise, check out our Fastly Security API docs.

What's new

Learn about recently released features and products.

Protection from CVE-2024-53677 (Apache Struts File Upload Logic Vulnerability) A directory traversal vulnerability within file uploads has…

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Getting started

These articles provide basic information about the Next-Gen WAF product and architecture.

Welcome! This guide provides a high-level overview of the steps needed to set up and configure the Next-Gen WAF product. Guided by our Sales…

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The Next-Gen WAF is an application security monitoring system that proactively monitors and protects your web application from malicious…

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Install guides

These articles explain how to install and configure the Next-Gen WAF.

Edge WAF deployment
 

These articles describe how to deploy the Next-Gen WAF with the Edge WAF deployment method.

PaaS deployment
 

These articles describe set up and deployment of the Next-Gen WAF agent using one of our compatible Platform as a Service (PaaS) platforms.

Cloud WAF deployment
 

These articles describe how to use Cloud WAF.

To deploy the Next-Gen WAF, you need to integrate the Next-Gen WAF product into your request flow by: Choosing a deployment method. A…

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When deployed in a self-hosted deployment, the Next-Gen WAF agent requires egress to multiple external endpoints to facilitate actions (e.g…

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Next-Gen WAF agent Per our agent end-of-support policy , we support agent versions that are under two years old. On a quarterly cadence, we…

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Agent The Next-Gen WAF agent supports different combinations of operating systems and architecture types. Download the latest version of…

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Using the Next-Gen WAF

These articles provide information about working with the Next-Gen WAF web interface.

Agent mode (Protection mode)
 

These articles describe how to set the Agent mode (also known as Protection mode) on the Next-Gen WAF agent.

Agent response codes
 

These articles describe how to set custom agent response codes on the Next-Gen WAF agent.

Data storage and privacy
 

These articles describe how we store and make available request and response data via the web interface and API.

Integrations
 

These articles explain how to work with integrations to notify you about activity within your corps (also known as accounts) and sites (also known as workspaces).

Sites (workspaces)
 

These articles describe how to work with sites (also known as workspaces).

Thresholds (site alerts)
 

These articles describe how to configure thresholds.

Often the server being protected is behind a load balancer or other proxy. In this case, the server will see this load balancer or proxy IP…

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Header links facilitate cross-referencing Next-Gen WAF data with your own internal systems via a hyperlink. We currently support linking…

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Developer

These articles explain how to work with the Next-Gen WAF API.

Our entire control panel is built API-first — this means that anything we can do, you can do as well via our RESTful/JSON API . We’ve seen…

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Next-Gen WAF stores requests that contain attacks and anomalies, with some qualifications. If you would like to extract this data in bulk…

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This document demonstrates various data flows between the Module and Agent. While MessagePack is the serialization protocol, the data is…

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X-SigSci-* headers are added to incoming requests. The end user (your customers) can't see them. However, your internal application can use…

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FAQ

These articles provide answers to frequently asked questions.

StatsD Metrics Metrics can be reported through StatsD to the service of your choice using the statsd-address agent configuration flag…

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Fastly Security Labs is a program that grants your corp (also known as an account) access to in-development beta features. In addition to…

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Fastly provides full support for IPv6 in the product, including: Detection and decisioning: Requests are appropriately tagged and IPv…

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Reference

These articles provide reference information for Next-Gen WAF.

Term Definition Admin A user role that can access the Next-Gen WAF control panel . Users with this role have limited access to corp…

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You can use the web interface to view a list of individual requests that have been tagged with signals and that fit into the all or sampled…

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