Why Should You 'WAAP'?

Web applications are programs that are accessible to users via a web browser, and are part of an organization’s web presence. Web applications and APIs are exposed to the public Internet and have access to a great deal of sensitive data, making them a prime target for cybercriminals. This presence can also incorporate application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow programmatic access to an organization’s web applications.

Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) is a highly specialized security tool specifically designed to protect web applications and APIs. A WAAP resides at the outer edge of a network in front of the public side of a web application and analyzes incoming traffic.

WAAP Capabilities:

? Next-Generation Web Application Firewall (NGWAF): Traditional, signature-based WAFs are blind to zero-day attacks. A NGWAF integrates additional security capabilities to help protect against a wider range of threats.

? Protection for APIs and Microservices: Many web security solutions focus on web application protection, but APIs and microservices are a growing target of attack. A WAAP solution provides comprehensive protection to an organization’s entire web presence.

? Malicious Bot Protection: Malicious botnets are a key tool for initiating an attack against an API. Bot mitigation capabilities block malicious bot activity while allowing bots that support legitimate business. The ability to differentiate between malicious bots and human users is essential to balancing application usability and security.

? Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection:?DDoS protection is essential in a WAAP solution to ensure the availability of an organization’s web applications and APIs. WAAP ensures that its DDoS mitigation strategy is capable to detect and mitigate API-focused distributed denial of service attacks. It blocks traffic at the edge for seamless business continuity with no performance impact and guaranteed uptime.

? ML-Based Threat Detection: WAAP employs ML-based threat detection to defend zero-day attacks with minimum false positives.?

? Real-Time Attack Analytics: The Web application and API protection tool offers complete visibility with domain expertise and employs ML techniques to monitor all security events and reveal attack patterns.?

? Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP): RASP provides personalized protection to applications, monitoring their inputs, outputs, and behavior for anomalies. This enables RASP solutions to detect even zero-day attacks against a web application or API.

? Automation and Intelligence: WAAP solutions learn on their own to adapt to the changes in the applications that they protect. This requires built-in automation and intelligence. WAAP approach automates the flow of security events and empowers incident response workflows. With built-in intelligence, the WAAP solution learns on its own to adapt to the dynamic threat landscape.

? Advanced Rate Limiting: Rate limiting is essential to ensure that malicious users do not consume valuable resources. Advanced rate-limiting technologies make it possible to crack down effectively on malicious users without impacting legitimate application use.