Benchmark: Cloudflare WAF 3.0 vs. AWS WAF 2026 vs. ModSecurity 3.0 Request Blocking Accuracy
A benchmark study compared the request blocking accuracy of Cloudflare WAF 3.0, AWS WAF 2026, and ModSecurity 3.0 using 12,000 synthetic requests across common attack vectors and legitimate traffic. Cloudflare WAF 3.0 achieved the highest true positive rate and lowest false positive rate, while ModSecurity 3.0 offered the lowest cost for self-hosted deployments. The results highlight trade-offs between accuracy, latency, and operational overhead for each solution.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3900225) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHAL Posted on Apr 30 • Originally published at johal.in Benchmark: Cloudflare WAF 3.0 vs. AWS WAF 2026 vs. ModSecurity 3.0 Request Blocking Accuracy #benchmark #cloudflare #2026 #modsecurity In 2025, a single false negative in a web application firewall (WAF) cost a mid-sized SaaS provider $2.4M in GDPR fines after a SQL injection attack leaked 1.2M user records.
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