Case Study: Chef achieves real-time web application security at speed with Fastly

Chef - Customer Case Study

Chef, the automation software company owned by Progress, needed a security solution that could scale with its DevOps practices without hurting application performance. Its engineering and operations teams wanted better visibility into changing vulnerabilities and attack vectors while identifying and resolving security issues as quickly as operational problems. Fastly’s Next-Gen WAF was chosen to help meet that need.

Fastly implemented automated web application security that detects real-time attacks, blocks malicious traffic, and surfaces key anomalies in dashboards and ChatOps tools like Slack. Chef reported almost zero added latency, no noticeable impact when the product was turned on, and confidence in avoiding false positives that had been common with legacy WAFs.

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Ben Rockwood

Director of Engineering