Fastly WAF management
A managed Web Application Firewall that protects business-critical apps from attacks. We manage and tune the rules for you.
Managed Fastly
Managed Fastly: WAF, CDN, DDoS & bot protection
We design, run and continuously tune your Fastly edge (a managed Web Application Firewall, global CDN, DDoS and bot protection) as an extension of your team, for a fixed monthly price.
Managed Fastly means nFuse runs the Fastly edge for you. Fastly is our preferred edge partner, and we manage the whole stack: Fastly WAF management to filter hostile requests, a managed global CDN that caches content close to your visitors, DDoS protection at the edge and bot management at scale. You get speed and security as a service: configured with your team, watched on dashboards and improved as your traffic and threats change.
Why the edge · 200 OK
Every request meets the edge first
The edge is where your visitors’ requests arrive, and where attacks land, milliseconds before either reaches your servers. Handle both there and your origin only ever sees clean, cached traffic: pages load from a location near the user, and hostile requests are turned away before they cost you anything.
Closer is faster
Content is served from a Fastly location near each visitor, so pages start loading sooner, wherever your audience is.
Threats stop at the door
Malicious requests are inspected and dropped at the edge, so your origin spends its capacity on real users, not attackers.
What we manage on Fastly
Security and speed, as a service
DDoS protection
Protection against DDoS attacks of any size and kind, absorbed at the Fastly edge before they reach your origin.
Bot management
Tell good bots from bad and stop malicious traffic with threat intelligence at scale, while real users flow through.
Managed CDN & caching
A global content delivery network with compression, continuously tuned for higher cache-hit ratios.
Enterprise · Next-Gen WAF
Next-Gen WAF: protection wherever your apps run
Larger organisations don’t run everything at the edge. Fastly’s Next-Gen WAF protects your applications wherever they live: at the edge, in the cloud, or on-premises in your own infrastructure. We help enterprise teams get it in place and keep it sharp: set it up and configure it alongside your engineers, or run and tune it for you as an extension of your team.
Set-up & configuration
We deploy and configure the Next-Gen WAF in your environment and connect it to the applications and services that matter. Done with your engineers, not over the wall.
Rules tuned to your traffic
We tune detection to your real traffic so genuine attacks are stopped and legitimate users are left alone, first in monitoring, then blocking.
Protection where your apps run
One consistent policy across your applications wherever they live (at the edge, in the cloud or on-premises), not just at the network boundary.
Set up with you, or run for you
A hands-on engagement to get your team self-sufficient, or a fully managed service where we operate and keep improving it, whichever fits.
What you get
What this means for you
Faster pages
Content cached close to your visitors, so pages feel quick wherever they are.
A quieter origin
Attacks and bot traffic are absorbed at the edge, so your servers stay stable under pressure.
One fixed monthly price
Edge security and performance as a service: predictable cost, no surprise bills.
Your team, freed up
We run and tune the edge, so your people focus on your product, not WAF rules.
How we work
Tuned, not just switched on
Configured with your team
We set up caching and security rules with your team, first on test, then production, and keep improving them.
Clear visibility
Detailed dashboards on cache hit/miss and threat statistics, so decisions are based on data, never guesswork.
Fastly is our preferred edge platform, but we also design and manage on Cloudflare, Akamai, Amazon CloudFront and Bunny CDN, whichever fits your stack and contracts.
Fastly: preferredCloudflareAkamaiAmazon CloudFrontBunny CDN
Managed vs DIY
Fastly is powerful. Running it well is a job.
Fastly gives you the controls; results come from how you use them. The gap between “switched on” and “tuned” is ongoing work, and that’s what you hand to us.
On your own
You own the rules, and the 2 a.m. pages
Caching and WAF config drift as your app changes. Getting cache-hit ratios up and false positives down is continuous work, and it lands on the team that already has a product to ship.
With nFuse
We run and tune it with your team
Caching, WAF, DDoS and bots: designed with you, rolled out test-first, then watched on the dashboards so it keeps improving as your traffic and threats change.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Are you a Fastly partner?
Yes. Fastly is our preferred edge partner, and we design, run and tune it for you. The value is in how we manage it, not just switching it on.
Do you only do Fastly?
No. Fastly is our preferred platform, but we also support Cloudflare, Akamai, Amazon CloudFront and Bunny CDN. We manage whichever fits your stack and contracts.
What does managed Fastly include?
Fastly WAF management, a managed global CDN and caching, DDoS protection and bot management, all set up with your team and improved continuously.
Will the WAF block real users?
We tune rules with you, first on test then production, and watch the dashboards so protection stays out of legitimate users’ way.
Can you help with Fastly’s Next-Gen WAF on our own infrastructure?
Yes. We help enterprise teams deploy, configure and tune Fastly’s Next-Gen WAF wherever their apps run: at the edge, in the cloud or on-premises. We can set it up with your engineers or run and tune it for you.