Overview
- Eliminate data loss and fraud across web, mobile, and API applications by blocking the full range of automated bot attacks with industry-leading bot detection and real-time mitigation.
- Prevent business disruption from SQL injection and DDoS attacks through a built-in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with comprehensive rules and policies, plus layer 3, 4, and 7 DDoS protection.
- Achieve continuous compliance and governance by discovering, monitoring, and testing every API in real time to assess risks that lead to data exposure and business disruption.
- Reduce operational overhead and eliminate coverage gaps by managing bot management, API security, and WAF from a single unified protection portal on one cloud deployment.
- Speed up response times for users by eliminating multiple cloud hops, as all integrated security components operate from a single cloud deployment.
- Stop cyber fraud and theft instantly by protecting every web, mobile, and API application from automated threats and fraudulent actions with real-time fraud prevention.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Integrated application and API protection
- Bot attack prevention
- Built-in Web Application Firewall
- Protection against SQL injection
- DDoS protection
- Cloud-based operation
- Reduces operational inefficiencies
- Opportune for data loss prevention
- Fraud prevention feature
- Real-time API monitoring
- Integrated, comprehensive security solution
- Ease API testing capabilities
- Rapid fraud response
- Elimination of coverage gaps
- Advanced bot management capabilities
- API discovery and risk assessment
- Automatic API spec generation
- Prevent sensitive data exposure
- Operational efficiency improvements
- Reduction in admin complexity
- Elimination of multiple cloud hops
- Minimal risk of inconsistent routing
- OWASP Web App Top 10 protection
- API security testing integration
- Protection against SYN floods, UDP floods
- Layer 3, 4, and 7 DDoS protection
- 99.99% availability against common infrastructure attacks
- Prevent business logic abuse
- Prevent account takeover
- Sensitive data exposure prevention
- API inventory and risk visibility
- Comprehensive API discovery and inventory
- Compliance risk visibility
- Advanced DDoS threat responsiveness
- Comprehensive set of firewall rules
- Prevents data theft via bot attacks
- Single application protection for efficiency
- Ease of security posture improvement
- Unified protection against bot attacks
- Real-time bot attack mitigation
- Customizable protection policies
- Minimized infrastructure costs
- Cequence API Management integration
- Content scraping prevention
Cons
- Requires constant cloud connection
- Potential single point failure
- Latency dependent on network
- Risk of cloud breaches
- Vendor lock-in
- Overly comprehensive for simple applications
- Updates dependent on provider
- Lack of customizable components
- Limited to provided integrations
- Mightly be overly complex for users
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❓ Frequently Asked Questions
Cequence Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) is an all-in-one tool offering integrated protection for applications and APIs. By combining bot management, API security, a Web Application Firewall (WAF), and DDoS protection features, it safeguards against data loss, theft, fraud, and other damages.
Yes, WAAP is designed to protect an organization’s web, mobile, and API applications from a full range of bot attacks. Its industry-leading bot detection and real-time mitigation capabilities help prevent data loss, theft, fraud, and potential downtime.
The API security feature of WAAP facilitates the discovery, monitoring, and testing of APIs. It assesses a broad variety of risks that could potentially lead to compliance and governance issues, data loss, and business disruption. The feature also offers sensitive data exposure prevention and integrated API security testing.
WAAP's Web Application Firewall (WAF) provides protection against SQL injection attacks by executing a comprehensive set of rules and policies designed to strengthen security. It identifies and blocks malicious input patterns associated with such attacks.
WAAP offers DDoS protection to defend against large-scale DDoS attacks that could incapacitate APIs and business operations. This feature provides layer 3, 4, and 7 protection, safeguarding against SYN floods, UDP floods, and reflection attacks.
WAAP improves operational efficiency through the use of a single application protection portal for WAF, bot management, and API security. This unified system minimizes administrative complexity and overhead, streamlining operations.
WAAP reduces latency by relying on a single cloud deployment for all its integrated components. This eliminates multiple cloud hops which can increase latency, thus speeding up response times.
The Unified Protection Portal in WAAP refers to a single dashboard from where all integrated components can be managed. It operates on a single cloud deployment, minimizing administrative complexity and overhead, and eliminating potential coverage gaps caused by inconsistent traffic routing.
WAAP's API security feature assesses a broad range of risks that could potentially lead to compliance and governance issues. It discovers, monitors, and tests APIs and provides continuous, real-time visibility into potential risks.
The Web Application Firewall (WAF) in WAAP strengthens protection by featuring a comprehensive set of rules and policies. This includes protection against malicious input patterns and SQL injection attacks. Additionally, Cequence's native mitigation improves the performance of the WAF.
No, you won't need a separate tool for bot management when you have WAAP. The tool already includes bot management features as one of its key components, protecting applications and APIs from a full range of bot attacks.
The API security feature of WAAP discovers, monitors, and tests the APIs. It provides comprehensive API discovery and inventory, automatic API spec generation, continuous real-time risk visibility, and sensitive data exposure prevention, along with integrated API security testing.
Yes, WAAP provides protection against cyber fraud. Its bot management feature safeguards an organization’s web, mobile, and API applications from automated threats and fraudulent action through its real-time mitigation and fraud prevention capabilities.
WAAP can protect all types of web and API applications. Protection extends to web, mobile, and API-based applications from a full range of attacks including bot attacks, SQL injection attacks, and DDoS attacks.
Yes, Cequence Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) is a cloud-based product. It uses a single cloud deployment for all its integrated components.
Yes, WAAP can help reduce business operation risks. By consolidating various security components under one cloud deployment, it eliminates coverage gaps caused by inconsistent traffic routing. This unified approach reduces the risk of attacks that could disrupt business operations.
Yes, WAAP offers features for data loss prevention. The bot management feature helps prevent data loss by protecting applications and APIs from a wide range of bot attacks.
WAAP combats business disruption by providing integrated protection for applications and APIs against a variety of threats. Its multi-faceted protection against bot attacks, SQL injection attacks, and DDoS attacks can help maintain business continuity.
WAAP's API security feature enables the discovery, monitoring, and testing of APIs, offering comprehensive API discovery and inventory, along with continuous, real-time risk visibility. These capabilities allow for effective API monitoring.
The SQL Injection Protection feature of WAAP is part of its Web Application Firewall (WAF). It offers protection against SQL injection attacks through specifically written rules and policies, blocking potential attacks by identifying and blocking malicious input patterns.
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