This Frost & Sullivan report recognizes Check Point WAF as a 2026 Global Technology Innovation Leader in Web Application Firewall (WAF) and API security. Based on Frost & Sullivan’s rigorous Best Practices evaluation framework, assessing both Business Impact and Technology Leverage. The report highlights Check Point’s strong execution, continued innovation, and leadership in protecting modern web, API, and AI-driven applications. The report details how Check Point WAF differentiates through AI-powered threat prevention, delivering near100% threat detection with minimal false positives, while eliminating the manual tuning typically associated with traditional WAF solutions. It also underscores the platform’s comprehensive WAAP capabilities, unifying web, API, bot, DDoS, and file upload protection across environments and CDNs, and its open-source, community-driven approach via open-appsec, which accelerates innovation and transparency in application security.
