Prevention-First Web Application and API Security
CloudGuard WAF protects your applications and APIs with a unified, AI-driven security platform – 100% Effectiveness, 0% False Positives
Automated Application & API Security
CloudGuard WAF is a cloud-native Web & API security solution that provides precise threat prevention using contextual AI to protect your Apps against known and unknown threats, without relying on signatures.
Preemptive Protection
Protect Advanced Threats: Prevents OWASP-Top-10 and zero-day threats against Web App & APIs by using ML-based security without signature updates (e.g. blocked Log4Shell and Spring4Shell with no updates)
Precise Detection
Reduce Operational Overheads: Continuously adapts to evolving threats and delivers accurate detection with minimal false positives, eliminating the fine-tuning and exception handling required by traditional WAFs.
Cloud Native by Design
CI/CD-friendly deployment and automation: from installation to upgrades, to configuration – using declarative infra-as-code APIs, and seamless DevOps integration.
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A Unique Approach to Web & API Protection
CloudGuard WAF eliminates manual rules and signature updates with real-time AI protection, blocking both known and unknown threats, while reducing operational overhead.
Incoming HTTP requests are analyzed using two AI engines:
- Attack-Indicator AI Engine (Supervised model)
- Context Analysis AI Engine (Unsupervised Model)
Attack-Indicator AI Engine
Trained on millions of malicious and legitimate requests, CloudGuard WAF identifies subtle threat signatures and advanced attack variants, enabling near-perfect detection of zero-day threats and blocking nearly 100% of attacks.
Context Analysis AI Engine
CloudGuard WAF continuously learns from real-time traffic patterns within the protected environment and adapts to each application’s unique behavior, accurately detecting anomalies and blocking only malicious activity reducing false positives to nearly zero.
Preemptive Prevention of Top Zero Day Attacks
The only WAF that blocked these attacks preemptively without signatures
Sprint4Shell
Log4Shell
Text4Shell
MOVEit
Easy to Manage, Fast to Deploy Comprehensive Web Application & API Security
Attack Indicator AI -near 100% Detection Rate
Contextual AI –near 0% False Positives
Real-Time API Security, Not Just Visibility
Bot Prevention
Denial of Service Prevention (DDoS)
File Security- Check the reputation of uploaded files
Intrusion Prevention (IPS)-Protect against over 2,800 Web CVEs
WAF as a Service-
Can be deployed in minutes
What sets Check Point WAF apart
- Preemptive Zero-Day Protection – Detect and block unknown and zero-day attacks (e.g., Log4Shell, Spring4Shell) before signatures even exist.
- No Rule Maintenance – Eliminate the manual effort of tuning rules and signatures.
- Near-Zero False Positives – Minimize operational overhead with contextual detection that adapts over time.
- API Discovery + Tuning Suggestions – automatically detect all APIs including shadow and zombie endpoints by analyzing URIs, headers, and full body payloads with extreme precision.
- Monitor API Changes – Time-stamped snapshots capture your API and sensitive data states, enabling detection of drifts or unauthorized changes.
- Real-Time API Protection with Schema Validation & Enforcement Automatically blocks requests that don’t match expected schemas, giving security teams instant visibility and stops misuse before it starts.
- Full Content Scanning – Every uploaded file is scanned and verified using a global threat intelligence cloud.
- Zero-Day File Threat Detection – Stop embedded malware and malicious content before it hits the application layer.
- Policy-Based Controls- Easily block, quarantine, or allow files based on configurable risk thresholds.
- Global Presence for Instant Mitigation– CloudGuard WAF-as-a-Service uses global PoPs to filter traffic at the edge, blocking attacks near their source and improving availability and latency for legitimate users.
- Multi-Layered Defense Architecture – provides protection across OSI layers, blocking L3/4 attacks like SYN and UDP floods, and L7 threats like HTTP floods, API abuse, and DNS DDoS with behavior-based analysis.
- 24/7 DDoS Response Team – Our global team monitors and responds to threats in real time, providing expert analysis, custom mitigation, and support to ensure uninterrupted service.
- Flexible Control & Easy Integration – Built-in APIs and DevOps compatibility enable efficient DDoS policy management across CI/CD.
CloudGuard WAF Statistics
WAF Comparison Project
CloudGuard WAF industry-leading performance with 99.4% detection accuracy and near-zero false positives, an out-of-the-box solution requiring no manual tuning, proven against 13 leading WAF solutions in the market.
CloudGuard WAF is also Available as Open-Source – the only LEXFO-certified open-source WAF
Our Customers Love Us
Explore how Check Point’s global customers are safeguarding their environments. Our mission is to secure the web application and API everywhere. We proudly maintain an industry-leading prevention rate of 99.4% with near zero false positives.
“We were pleased to find out that CloudGuard WAF provided us with protection against Log4Shell pre-emptively. We like very much the fact that there is no need for signature/rules updates and tuning.”
-Felipe Rodero
Security Architect, BBVA
“CloudGuard WAF is a largely set-and-forget solution. It has given us real peace of mind to know our web applications are protected 24/7 with minimal effort”
-Shawn Fletcher
Senior Enterprise Architect, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton
“CloudGuard WAF provides the best protection for our Web Applications and APIs with minimal overhead and false positives using AI.”
-Dialungana Malungo
Cybersecurity Analyst, Unitel
“With CloudGuard WAF we have a cloud-native Web & API security solution that provides us with excellent threat protection coverage that protects our Apps against known and unknown threats, without relying on signatures.”
-Russ Trainor
Senior Vice President of Information Technology, Denver Broncos
“CloudGuard WAF has been highly effective for our customers. In addition to bot attacks, we’ve seen attackers try to deface customer websites and cyber threats attempt to compromise APIs. CloudGuard WAF has prevented them all.”
-Laurent Lachkar
Cyber Security Expert, Visiativ
Awards and Recognition
Recognized in Gartner® Market Guide for Cloud Web Application and API Protection (WAAP)
