WAF solutions continue their evolution into cloud-based solutions that protect applications and APIs in hybrid and multicloud environments. WAF solution vendors have expanded their remit to address API attacks and layer 7 DDoS and are working to integrate WAFs with bot management, API security, and client-side security tools to offer complete application protection platforms. This is good news for security pros, who continue to face a flurry of application-based attacks. To execute successfully, security teams must operate more efficiently than ever, including with their WAF solution, while avoiding false positives, performance lags, outages, and unblocked attacks that would threaten their credibility with the product team.