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Strategic planning assumptions by 2020, standalone waf hardware appliances will represent less than 20% of new. Imperva named a leader in the 2017 gartner magic quadrant for web application firewalls for the fourth consecutive year. Mcafee owns strong casb technology from its 2017 acquisition of. Akamai positioned in leaders quadrant of gartner magic quadrant for web application firewalls evaluation based on completeness of vision and ability to execute. Gartner magic quadrant for unified threat management smb multifunction firewalls. Greg young, adam hils, jeremy dhoinne summary the waf market is growing quickly, with a range of deployments from good enough to more complex waf deployments aiming at high security. Magic quadrant for web application firewalls gartner. Adam hils, jeremy dhoinne, claudio neiva summary the waf market is growing, with new use cases and security requirements ranging from good enough security for compliance to protection against targeted attacks. The web application firewall waf market is driven by a customers need to protect public and internal web applications when they are deployed. Enterprise security teams should use this research as part of their evaluation on how wafs can provide improved security that is also easy to consume and manage, while respecting data privacy requirements. This magic quadrant includes the following types of network firewalls. Gartner august 2017 vendor strengths and cautions akamai akamai moved from the challengers to the leaders quadrant. In 2018, worldwide market firewall revenue rose by 15.
Imperva named a leader in the 2017 gartner magic quadrant. Gartner estimates that the waf market grew in 20 at a rate of approximately. Imperva has been recognized as a leader in gartners 2019 magic quadrant for web application firewalls waf, six years in a row. To be considered for this magic quadrant, vendors must actively sell and market. Waf modules embedded in application delivery controllers adcs. Magic quadrant for web application firewalls published.