Case Study: Axon strengthens application security with Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Protecting and Securing Communities Together

Axon, a company providing an evidence management platform for law enforcement agencies, faced a significant security challenge. Their solution needed to handle highly sensitive digital evidence like body cam footage securely. Traditional Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) were incompatible with their modern architecture and represented a single point of failure. Their own homegrown security solution consumed excessive operational resources, lacked robust blocking capabilities, and was difficult to maintain alongside rapid software development, necessitating a better alternative from a vendor like Fastly.

The solution implemented was Fastly's Signal Sciences next-gen WAF. It provided ease of installation, out-of-the-box security visibility that required no configuration, and robust blocking capabilities without being a performance bottleneck. This allowed Axon's security team to focus on strategic initiatives instead of maintaining rules or sifting through logs. The results included an advanced application security posture, more efficient use of existing security resources, and the ability to better fulfill their mission of protecting communities by ensuring the highest degree of data protection for their law enforcement customers.

Axon

Jenner Holden

VP of Information Security