Solution Brief | Check Point WAF For Multi-CDN Architectures

Check Point WAF and IO River have partnered to deliver the first unified security solution that operates consistently across Multi-CDN. Download the Solution Brief now.

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Check Point WAF For Multi-CDN Architectures

The Challenge: Security Gaps in Multi-CDN Architectures To improve availability and avoid outages, enterprises are increasingly adopting Multi-CDN architectures. Traffic can move dynamically between CDN providers to maintain performance and resilience.

But while delivery has become distributed, security has become fragmented.

Each CDN introduces its own WAF, policies, and visibility. As traffic shifts, security teams are left managing multiple platforms, duplicating controls, and losing consistency exactly when resilience matters most.

The Impact of Fragmentation:

Operations: Teams must master multiple platforms, leading to manual policy synchronization and massive operational overhead.

Security: Inconsistent protection logic and "blind spots" in visibility increase exposure during provider failovers or traffic shifts.

Visibility: Dispersed logs and events make threat hunting and compliance auditing nearly impossible.

The Solution: Unified Security for Multi-CDN Environments Check Point WAF and IO River have partnered to deliver the first unified security solution that operates consistently across Multi-CDN. This solution extends Check Point WAF’s prevention-first, AI-powered security to run natively on the edge compute layer of all CDNs.

Instead of deploying and managing separate WAFs for each provider, organizations can now use a single, prevention-first security platform that operates uniformly across every CDN edge. Security policies are defined once and enforced everywhere without adding latency, complexity, or additional cost delivering greater resilience and value with the same investment.

What This Delivers 1. Faster, more resilient delivery across multiple CDNs

Multi-CDN architectures eliminate single points of failure. Security remains consistent as traffic shifts between CDNs, ensuring continuous protection during outages, peak demand, or regional disruptions.

2. Smarter edge security for apps and APIs (AI-powered WAF) Prevention-first, AI/ML-driven protection blocks known and unknown threats for web, API and AI applications including zero-day attacks, OWASP Top 10 risks, API abuse, and bots directly at the edge, before malicious traffic reaches applications.

3. Consistent controls and visibility across Multi-CDN A single virtual security layer spans all connected CDNs. Teams manage one policy framework, one enforcement model, consistent security behavior, no duplication., eliminating fragmented WAF deployments.

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How It Works Check Point WAF natively runs at the edge, delivering prevention-first, AI-powered security where traffic first enters the environment. Through the partnership with IO River, this edge-native capability is extended across a Multi-CDN architecture, allowing the same Check Point WAF protection to operate consistently on multiple CDN providers.

IO River provides the virtual edge layer that sits above all connected CDNs, enabling Check Point WAF to inspect and block threats in real time before traffic reaches customer infrastructure. Security teams define policies once in Check point WAF, and enforcement is automatically propagated across every CDN.

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The Outcome With Check Point and IO River, organizations align delivery resilience with consistent, high-efficacy security. By operating across multiple CDN providers, businesses maintain continuous application availability and reduce the risk of downtime during outages or service disruptions without compromising protection.

Faster & resilient delivery.

Smarter AI-driven App & API security.

Consistent controls across Multi-CDN.

No compromise

About Check Point WAF Check Point WAF is a cloud-native Web, GenAI, and API security solution that delivers precise, prevention-first protection using contextual AI to stop both known and unknown threats without relying on signatures. It offers industry-leading performance with a 99.5% detection rate and near-zero false positives, providing true out-of-the- box protection with no manual tuning required. Its effectiveness has been proven through WAF comparison testing against 14 leading WAF solutions in the market.

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Solution Brief | Check Point WAF For Multi-CDN Architectures

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