Case Study: Chef achieves secure DevOps at speed with Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Embracing DevOps and Security at Speed

Chef’s engineering and operations teams needed a security solution that could keep pace with their DevOps practices while helping them gain better visibility into application vulnerabilities and attack vectors. They wanted to identify and resolve security issues as quickly as operational issues, without adding friction or impacting performance. Fastly Next-Gen WAF, used here as Signal Sciences web application security technology, was the vendor they chose to support that goal.

Fastly Next-Gen WAF helped Chef automatically surface real-time attacks in its DevOps toolchain while blocking malicious traffic with almost zero added latency. The solution produced no noticeable impact on operations, reduced false positives compared with legacy WAFs, and integrated with ChatOps tools like Slack so teams could quickly triage issues. As a result, Chef gained security visibility and confidence to move fast without sacrificing performance.

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Ben Rockwood

Director of Engineering