Industry research firm recognizes Cloudflare for its top-rated WAF capabilities
Cloudflare has been recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Web Application Firewall Solutions, Q1 2025 report. Cloudflare’s Web Application Firewall (WAF) received the highest possible score in 15 out of 22 evaluation criteria, including Innovation, Detection Models, Product Security, and Partner Ecosystem.
“Since our founding, Cloudflare’s WAF has been a cornerstone offering for millions of customers who depend on us to buy valuable time to patch their systems before hackers can exploit vulnerabilities.”
– Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare.
“Since our founding, Cloudflare’s WAF has been a cornerstone offering for millions of customers who depend on us to buy valuable time to patch their systems before hackers can exploit vulnerabilities,” said Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare. “We’re proud to be recognized as a Leader by Forrester in this space, further underscoring our continued investment and success in building the best platform for protecting APIs and web application traffic—unmatched by any competitor.”
The Forrester Wave report highlights Cloudflare as “a strong option for customers that want to manage an easy-to-use, unified web application protection platform that will continue to innovate.” Additionally, the report notes that “Cloudflare stands out with features that help customers work more efficiently.”
Cloudflare’s WAF leverages insights from its global network—one of the largest in the world—to ensure that threat actors cannot exploit vulnerabilities in web applications and APIs. Forrester’s evaluation included 10 vendors assessed across 22 criteria related to current offerings, strategy, and customer feedback.
