Under the Hood: WAF Comparison Project 2026 - Final Test Results and How to Run the Tests Yourself - Seguridad Mania.com - España y América Latina

As cyber threats continue to evolve, web applications, APIs, and GenAI workloads have become prime targets. While WAFs remain a critical first line of defense, attackers are no longer relying solely on basic OWASP Top 10 techniques. Modern attacks increasingly use evasion strategies, payload padding, and zero-day techniques specifically designed to bypass signature-based WAFs raising the bar for how WAFs must be tested and evaluated. The WAF Comparison Project 2026 presents the results of our third annual, real-world assessment of WAF effectiveness. This year’s evaluation goes beyond theoretical scoring, leveraging over 1 million legitimate requests and 74,000 malicious payloads to test 14 leading WAF vendors, including CSP WAFs such as Microsoft Azure WAF, AWS WAF, and Google Cloud Armor, as well as Cloudflare, F5, Fortinet, Barracuda, and Check Point CloudGuard WAF. In this webinar, we will not only break down the results but also show how quickly and safely you can run the same tests against your own environment to validate your WAF under real-world conditions. Agenda: Testing methodology Review results Show how you can safely run the same tests against your own environment Q&A Hope to see you there!