Astra Security vs OWASP Coraza WAF

Astra Security is a cloud platform for continuous penetration testing of web applications, APIs, and cloud infrastructure. Its DAST scanner covers more than 15,000 test cases and supports authenticated scans involving MFA, SSO, and custom authentication flows. PTaaS combines certified human penetration testers with AI-assisted threat modeling, scheduled tests, and free rescans after remediation. API security features discover shadow, dormant, and undocumented APIs and test API-specific attack cases. The cloud scanner supports AWS, Azure, and GCP with more than 400 checks. Integrations include Slack, Jira, Vanta, GitLab, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Azure, and CircleCI. Astra says it is SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001 certified, and its Trust Center shares security evidence. Plans include Scanner Lite at $69 a month, Scanner at $199 a month, and annual pentest options. A target is a domain and its site-tree URLs, representing an application, IP, website, or API.

OWASP Coraza WAF is a free, open-source Web Application Firewall for APIs and web applications. It supports ModSecurity SecLang rulesets and is fully compatible with the OWASP Core Rule Set. That ruleset covers threats including SQL injection, cross-site scripting, code injection, HTTPoxy, Shellshock and scanner or bot activity. Coraza can run as a sidecar, proxy or library in Go, C++ and WebAssembly. Official connectors are listed for NGINX, Envoy, Caddy, Apache APISIX, proxy-wasm, HAProxy, Traefik and libcoraza. Documentation describes extension points for audit loggers, persistence engines, operators, actions and plugins, with examples for GeoIP and a package containing the Core Rule Set and recommended configuration. The Quick Start requires Go 1.24 or later. Platforms listed are API, Linux, macOS and self-hosted. Coraza offers managed rule sets, API protection and bot management. The v3 internals documentation says persistent collections such as IP, SESSION and RESOURCE are not currently supported. Coraza Playground provides a sandbox web interface for testing rules. The Open source plan is listed at free.