IO River Embraces Wasm to Enable Any WAF to Run on Any CDN

IO River is using WebAssembly (Wasm) to decouple WAF deployments from specific CDN providers, allowing cybersecurity teams to run any WAF on any CDN. The first implementation runs Check Point WAF on Akamai. The approach eliminates the need to acquire a separate WAF per CDN, reduces costs, and lets teams enforce existing WAF policies at the network edge without backhauling traffic. As applications increasingly deploy at the edge, this portability model addresses the growing attack surface challenge in distributed architectures.