Web Application & API Protection (WAF / WAAP)
Protection for websites, portals and APIs against application attacks, bots and denial-of-service, tuned to your applications.
- NIST CSF 2.0 functions
- Protect Detect
- Relevant for
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- Banking and financial services
- Telecommunications
- Government and public sector
- Oil and gas
Overview
Web applications are how customers, partners and staff reach your services, and attackers know it. Injection, automated abuse and floods of requests target the same login pages, payment flows and APIs your business depends on.
A web application firewall inspects that traffic and stops the attacks. We choose and deploy it around your applications, tune it so legitimate users are not blocked, and connect it to your monitoring, so it protects the business without becoming a source of outages.
What you get
- Internet-facing applications and APIs shielded from common web attacks
- Fewer successful injection, scripting and automated-abuse attempts
- Rules tuned to your applications, so real users are not blocked
- Logs and alerts your security team can act on
What we cover
- Protection against injection, cross-site scripting and other web application attack classes
- API discovery and API protection
- Bot management and credential-stuffing defense
- Denial-of-service protection for web applications
- Deployment as an appliance, in the cloud or as a cloud service in front of your sites
- Virtual patching while developers fix vulnerabilities
Leading platforms
Established platforms in this category. We help you compare them against your requirements.
- Palo Alto Networks
- Cloudflare
- Akamai
- F5
- Imperva
- Fortinet
- Amazon Web Services
How we work
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Discover
We list your internet-facing applications and APIs, their traffic patterns, their owners and how they are published today.
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Design
We design where the WAF sits, how traffic reaches it, how certificates are handled and how it stays available, and choose the platform with you.
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Deploy in monitor mode
We start by watching traffic without blocking, then review what the rules would have blocked.
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Tune and enforce
We tune the rules with application owners, add application-specific protections, and then switch to blocking.
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Hand over
We document the change process, connect logs to your monitoring and train the team that runs it.
Deliverables
- Application and API inventory
- WAF architecture and policy design
- Deployed and tuned WAF in blocking mode
- Rule change and exception procedure
- Integration with logging and monitoring
- Administrator training and runbooks
Questions buyers ask
Will a WAF block our real customers?
Not if it is introduced carefully. We run in monitor mode first and tune with application owners before blocking anything.
Does a WAF replace fixing vulnerabilities in the application?
No. It reduces risk while fixes are made. We pair it with penetration testing so you know what to fix at the source.
Related offerings
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Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)
Next-generation firewalls that control traffic by application, user and content, with a clean, documented rule base.
NIST CSF function: Protect -
Network Detection & Response (NDR)
Visibility into network traffic to detect lateral movement, command-and-control and data theft that endpoint tools cannot see.
NIST CSF function: Detect -
Penetration Testing
Controlled, authorized attacks on your networks, applications and people to find what a real attacker could exploit — and how to fix it.
NIST CSF function: Identify NIST CSF function: Protect