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We performed a comparison between Human Defense Platform and The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Featured Review
Anonymous User
They ensure that our campaigns have run in the highest quality of settings, leading to savings on ad spending
As a result of the period that we are using this service, we were able to validate traffic quality. This enabled us to block bad, bot traffic.... Read more →
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Offers Varnish Configuration Language (VCL) and provides enhanced dashboards, making it easy to identify and allow...
It gives us fully enhanced dashboards, making it easy to identify and allow or deny traffic based on the signals it provides. Fastly (Signal... Read more →
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  • "Signal Sciences is pretty cheap compared to other solutions."
  • "The product has an affordable cost."
  • "The pricing is 50% less than Akamai."

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    Questions from the Community
    Can PerimeterX Bot Defender be deployed in a cloud environment, such as A...
    Top Answer:The solution seamlessly integrates with Azure infrastructure, making it easy for users to protect their web applications from malicious bot traffic. The integration process is straightforward. By… more »
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    Can PerimeterX Bot Defender handle bot attacks that utilize rotating IP a...
    Top Answer:The solution employs device fingerprinting and behavioral analysis to accurately identify and block malicious bots, despite their IP address. With PerimeterX in place, users can successfully mitigated… more »
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    What are some of the ways that account fraud is committed and how can Per...
    Top Answer:One of the significant concerns with account fraud is the creation of fake accounts using stolen personally identifiable information. With PerimeterX Bot Defender, users are able to identify and block… more »
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    What do you like most about Signal Sciences?
    Top Answer:The product's most valuable feature is its ability to set up the rules easily.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Signal Sciences?
    Top Answer:The pricing is 50% less than Akamai.
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    What needs improvement with Signal Sciences?
    Top Answer:Fastly don't support caching for China users. That's the only feature lacking compared to Akamai.
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    Ranking
    28th
    out of 65 in Fraud Detection and Prevention
    Views
    238
    Comparisons
    195
    Reviews
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    Average Words per Review
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    Rating
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    28th
    out of 82 in Web Application Firewall (WAF)
    Views
    857
    Comparisons
    642
    Reviews
    2
    Average Words per Review
    504
    Rating
    7.0
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    Also Known As
    PerimeterX Bot Defender, BotGuard for Applications, HUMAN MediaGuard
    Signal Sciences Next-Gen WAF, Signal Sciences RASP
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    Overview

    The HUMAN Defense Platform is a comprehensive cybersecurity solution designed to protect businesses from digital fraud and abuse across various online touchpoints. It offers multi-surface protection for ad platforms, web applications, mobile apps, and APIs, ensuring a secure digital presence. The platform focuses on disrupting fraudulent activities in real-time using advanced analytics and machine learning, making it difficult for attackers to succeed. Leveraging a vast global threat network, it identifies and blocks suspicious activities based on real-time threat intelligence. Designed for scalability and automation, it frees up security teams to focus on strategic initiatives. Key threats mitigated include account takeover (ATO), card-not-present (CNP) fraud, scraped data abuse, bot attacks, and malvertising.

    The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) provides web application and API protection, RASP, rate limiting, bot protection and DDoS purpose built to eliminate the challenges of legacy WAF.

    Sample Customers
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    Chef, Adobe, Datadog, Etsy, GrubHub, Vimeo, SendGrid, Under Armour, Duo, AppNexus
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company19%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Media Company9%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization24%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise61%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise30%
    Large Enterprise52%
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    Human Defense Platform is ranked 28th in Fraud Detection and Prevention while The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) is ranked 28th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 3 reviews. Human Defense Platform is rated 10.0, while The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Human Defense Platform writes "They ensure that our campaigns have run in the highest quality of settings, leading to savings on ad spending". On the other hand, the top reviewer of The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) writes "Offers Varnish Configuration Language (VCL) and provides enhanced dashboards, making it easy to identify and allow or deny traffic based on the signals it provides". Human Defense Platform is most compared with AWS WAF, F5 Shape Security, Cloudflare, Cloudflare Bot Management and Akamai Bot Manager, whereas The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) is most compared with AWS WAF, Cloudflare, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Azure Web Application Firewall and Imperva Web Application Firewall.

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