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Fastly vs HUMAN Security

Fastly is an edge cloud platform that helps companies deliver fast, secure, and reliable digital experiences. HUMAN Security sells the Human Defense Platform, which provides precise decisions to detect and disrupt sophisticated threats and to protect the customer journey. CISO Tribune files both under Bot and abuse management. This page sets the two records side by side: what each sells, where it is based, who owns and funds it, the customers it names and its recent news, each fact numbered to its source.

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Fastly vs HUMAN Security: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
FastlyFastly is an edge cloud platform that helps companies deliver fast, secure, and reliable digital experiences.fastly.comHUMAN SecurityHUMAN Security sells the Human Defense Platform, which provides precise decisions to detect and disrupt sophisticated threats and to protect the customer journey.humansecurity.com
What it sells
  • Next-Gen WAF[2][9][11]A web application firewall that monitors suspicious and anomalous web traffic.
  • DDoS Protection[5][6][10]Real-time visibility into and defense against common DDoS attacks.
  • API Discovery[10]A continuously-updating record of incoming API requests.
  • Managed Security[5][11]24/7 expert-managed WAF, bot, and DDoS threat protection.
  • AI Runtime Control[7][12]A unified control plane between applications and AI models.
  • Managed CDN[5]Fastly's managed cloud CDN deployed inside the customer's own network.
  • Professional Services[5]Expert help to migrate or optimize a delivery service.
  • Human Defense Platform[3][5]Provides decisions to detect and disrupt sophisticated threats across the customer journey.
  • Ad Integrity Suite[3][6]Brings IVT, brand safety, and viewability intelligence together.
  • Brand Safety[6][7]Brand safety for digital advertising, offered within the Advertising Protection Package.
Categories
Headquarters
San Francisco, United States[4]New York, United States
Founded
Not stated on its pagesNot stated on its pages
Ownership and funding
Public (NYSE: FSLY)[1][8]Not stated on its pages
Named customers
Not stated on its pagesNot stated on its pages
Recent news
  • September 28, 2026Comcast and Fastly are working with NBCUniversal to run Fastly delivery software on Comcast's network for live streaming events on Peacock.[18]
  • September 21, 2026Fastly announced AI Runtime Control, AI Firewall and new API Security capabilities aimed at giving organizations visibility and control across their AI systems.[7]
  • June 10, 2026Fastly and Skyfire announced a partnership under which Skyfire integrated its identity and payment-backed credentials into Fastly's edge cloud platform.[19]
  • July 7, 2026HUMAN Security announced that its Satori team identified and disrupted a connected TV device spoofing operation called NewsJunkie.[17]
  • March 26, 2026HUMAN Security announced the findings of its 2026 State of AI Traffic & Cyberthreat Benchmark Report.[16]
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: listed, seen November 3, 2026[8]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
  • G2: Not stated on its pages
  • Gartner Peer Insights: listed, seen November 5, 2026[18]
Who it fits
From its own pages, Fastly sells mainly to developers, security teams, and digital businesses. Fastly says its security products protect applications, APIs, and microservices, wherever they live. Fastly says it powers media brands with an open edge cloud platform for live and on-demand entertainment. Fastly Next-Gen WAF can be deployed in three different ways, including directly on customers' own web servers. Managed Security Professional is sold to customers that purchase Fastly Full-Site Delivery and Network Services Enterprise Support, along with either Next-Gen WAF or Edge Rate Limiting.From its own pages, HUMAN Security sells mainly to brands, agencies, publishers and platforms in digital advertising, and to online retailers. The company says global organizations across industries use its client-side protection. HUMAN Security also addresses online merchants that must comply with PCI DSS requirements for payment page browser scripts. Retail media networks are named as a setting for its ad fraud protection. Marketing and commerce teams are named as the audience for its AI traffic visibility offer.
Last verified
September 27, 2026November 9, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Fastly and HUMAN Security are both filed under Bot and abuse management.
  • Both are headquartered in the United States.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Fastly's primary category is WAF and WAAP; HUMAN Security's is Bot and abuse management.
  • Fastly is also filed under DDoS protection and API security. HUMAN Security is also filed under Fraud prevention.
  • Fastly lists Next-Gen WAF, DDoS Protection, API Discovery, Managed Security, AI Runtime Control and 2 more. HUMAN Security lists Human Defense Platform, Ad Integrity Suite and Brand Safety.
  • Fastly is headquartered in San Francisco, United States. HUMAN Security is headquartered in New York, United States.
  • Fastly is a public company listed on NYSE as FSLY.

What it sells: Fastly

What Next-Gen WAF does[2][9][11]
Fastly Next-Gen WAF protects, in real-time, against attacks directed at the applications and origin servers that customers specify. Next-Gen WAF can be deployed in three different ways. Next-Gen WAF continues to be powered by Signal Sciences technology.
What DDoS Protection does[5][6][10]
Fastly DDoS Protection provides real-time visibility into and defense against common Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Fastly describes it as keeping customers performant and available without any required configuration.
What Managed Security does[5][11]
Fastly describes Managed Security as 24/7 expert-managed WAF, bot, and DDoS threat protection. Managed Security Professional provides continuous monitoring of included Fastly security products and proactive action by Fastly in the event of an identified security incident. Managed Security Professional includes enhanced access to Fastly's Customer Security Operations Center (CSOC).
What AI Runtime Control does[7][12]
ARC is a unified control plane that sits between applications and AI models, giving centralized visibility, governance, and control over all AI traffic. AI Firewall is a security module within ARC that protects AI-powered applications from prompt injection attacks with near-zero latency impact.

What it sells: HUMAN Security

What Human Defense Platform does[3][5]
The Human Defense Platform provides precise decisions to detect and disrupt sophisticated threats. HUMAN says its Decision Engine examines 2,500+ signals per interaction. Signals from across the customer journey are analyzed by 400+ algorithms and adaptive machine-learning models.
What Ad Integrity Suite does[3][6]
Ad Integrity Suite is part of HUMAN's Advertising Protection Package. HUMAN brings IVT, brand safety, and viewability intelligence together to help brands, agencies, and platforms measure media quality and qualify supply.
What Brand Safety does[6][7]
Brand Safety is part of HUMAN's Advertising Protection Package. The package is designed to maximize trust in the ad tech ecosystem.

Questions about Fastly and HUMAN Security

What do Fastly and HUMAN Security sell?
Fastly sells Next-Gen WAF, DDoS Protection, API Discovery, Managed Security, AI Runtime Control and 2 more. HUMAN Security sells Human Defense Platform, Ad Integrity Suite and Brand Safety.
Are Fastly and HUMAN Security in the same category?
They share Bot and abuse management. Fastly's primary category is WAF and WAAP and HUMAN Security's is Bot and abuse management.
Where are Fastly and HUMAN Security headquartered?
Fastly is headquartered in San Francisco, United States. HUMAN Security is headquartered in New York, United States.
Who owns Fastly and HUMAN Security?
Fastly is a public company listed on NYSE as FSLY.
Who are Fastly and HUMAN Security sold to?
From its own pages, Fastly sells mainly to developers, security teams, and digital businesses. From its own pages, HUMAN Security sells mainly to brands, agencies, publishers and platforms in digital advertising, and to online retailers.
What have Fastly and HUMAN Security announced recently?
September 28, 2026: Comcast and Fastly are working with NBCUniversal to run Fastly delivery software on Comcast's network for live streaming events on Peacock. July 7, 2026: HUMAN Security announced that its Satori team identified and disrupted a connected TV device spoofing operation called NewsJunkie.

About Fastly

Fastly is an edge cloud platform that helps companies deliver fast, secure, and reliable digital experiences. Fastly combines CDN, security (including WAF and DDoS protection), and edge computing so teams can control how content and applications are delivered and protected in real-time. Fastly describes one programmable platform to scale AI systems, protect content from bots, and run the edge with natural language. Fastly describes Secure as protecting apps and APIs from AI-scale threats. Fastly says it powers millions of mission-critical applications in thousands of the world's most digitally-advanced companies.[3][5][6]

Fastly says its application security solutions are designed for security and resilience at global scale and help teams mitigate evolving threats and control bots. Fastly offers CDN for content delivery, WAF for application protection, DDoS mitigation, bot management, and edge compute solutions for running logic closer to users. Fastly says its products work together as a unified platform. Fastly refers to its global network as having 622 Tbps of capacity.[5][6]

Fastly Next-Gen WAF is a web application firewall that monitors for suspicious and anomalous web traffic and protects, in real-time, against attacks directed at the applications and origin servers that customers specify. Fastly Next-Gen WAF now collectively refers to the products previously known as the Signal Sciences Cloud WAF and Signal Sciences Next-Gen WAF. Fastly Next-Gen WAF continues to be powered by Signal Sciences technology. Next-Gen WAF identifies and tracks attacks across all of a customer's deployments and determines whether to flag the originating IP address as potentially problematic, rate limit the IP address or allow the request. Next-Gen WAF can be deployed in three different ways. The On-Prem WAF deployment consists of two components, the module and the agent. Cloud WAF deployment requires uploading a TLS certificate, adding an origin server using the Next-Gen WAF control panel, and updating DNS records. Next-Gen WAF customers receive threat intelligence through the Network Learning Exchange (NLX) feature, which adds a unique signal to information in the control panels.[9]

Fastly DDoS Protection provides real-time visibility into and defense against common Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Fastly Client-Side Protection provides the ability to inventory and control resources such as scripts, images, and fonts.[10]

Fastly describes Managed Security as 24/7 expert-managed WAF, bot, and DDoS threat protection. Managed Security Professional provides continuous monitoring of included Fastly security products and proactive action by Fastly in the event of an identified security incident. Managed Security Professional includes enhanced access to Fastly's Customer Security Operations Center (CSOC) and periodic consultation with a Designated Security Specialist. Managed Security Professional includes a quarterly report documenting events observed and actions taken, recommendations for configuration changes and maintenance, and product updates.[5][11]

ARC is a unified control plane that sits between applications and AI models, giving centralized visibility, governance, and control over all AI traffic. ARC replaces raw provider API keys with rotatable virtual keys and supports connecting to providers via federated SSO pass-through. ARC lets customers set a monthly dollar budget per virtual key, with a choice of hard-block or continue-serving once exhausted. AI Firewall is a security module within ARC that protects AI-powered applications from prompt injection attacks with near-zero latency impact. AI Firewall uses Fastly's SmartParse detection engine and custom guardrails to detect attacks like prompt injection and other LLM specific attacks.[12]

Fastly's cloud CDN accelerates the delivery of dynamic content and caches website content that is unpredictable and event-driven. Fastly's Compute platform helps customers compile custom code to WebAssembly and runs it at the Fastly edge. Deploying to a Compute service makes customer logic available across the Fastly network with a single deploy action. Fastly Object Storage is an Amazon S3-compatible large object storage solution. Fastly's Platform TLS product allows customers to programmatically manage certificates and keys for Transport Layer Security (TLS) using a web API. Origin Inspector provides a dataset and visualizations that offer real-time and historical visibility into responses delivered from origin servers to the Fastly Edge Cloud. Fastly says customers can configure the Fastly CDN service to cache and transmit protected health information (PHI) in keeping with Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) security requirements. Fastly describes Managed CDN as Fastly's managed cloud CDN deployed inside the customer's own network, and Professional Services as expert help to migrate or optimize a delivery service. Fastly describes itself as an ICANN-accredited domain registrar.[2][5][6][10][11][13][14][15][16][17]

Fastly on the record

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Fastly full record

  1. [1]Fastly Announces Acquisition of GlitchFastly via Business Wire · businesswire.com · published May 19, 2022 · Tier A
  2. [2]Web application api protectionFastly · fastly.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]SecureFastly · fastly.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
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  7. [7]Fastly Launches AI Firewall and AI Runtime Control to Secure and Scale AIFastly, Inc. (Business Wire) · published September 21, 2026 · Tier A
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HUMAN Security full record

  1. [1]humansecurity.comHUMAN Security · humansecurity.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Privacy policyHUMAN Security · humansecurity.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]HUMAN SecurityHUMAN Security · undated page, accessed October 25, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]MediaGuard Reviews & Product Details - G2G2 · undated page, accessed October 25, 2026 · Tier C
  5. [5]The Human Defense Platform | HUMAN SecurityHUMAN Security · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Ad Integrity Suite - HUMAN SecurityHUMAN Security · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Brand Safety | Human SecurityHUMAN Security · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Ad Quality Defense for Digital Advertising | Human SecurityHUMAN Security · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Click Fraud | HUMAN SecurityHUMAN Security · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Agentic Commerce Security - Monitor & Control AI Agents | HUMAN SecurityHUMAN Security · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Agentic Visibility | HUMAN SecurityHUMAN Security · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Package Plans - HUMAN SecurityHUMAN Security · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Client-Side Security | HUMAN SecurityHUMAN Security · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Simplify PCI DSS Compliance with HUMAN Client-Side DefenseHUMAN Security · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  15. [15]E-commerce Cybersecurity Services | HUMAN SecurityHUMAN Security · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  16. [16]HUMAN Security’s 2026 State of AI Traffic & Cyberthreat Benchmark Report Signals a New Internet Era: Automation Growth Now Outpaces HumansHUMAN Security · published March 26, 2026 · Tier A
  17. [17]HUMAN Security Disrupts CTV Device Spoofing Operation “NewsJunkie”HUMAN Security · published July 7, 2026 · Tier A
  18. [18]HUMAN Security Reviews, Ratings & Features 2026 | Gartner Peer InsightsGartner Peer Insights · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier C

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