Web App and API Protection (WAAP)
Protect apps and APIs deployed across clouds and edge sites with industry-leading, SaaS-based web application firewall (WAF) and bot protection, advanced API security, and L3-L7 DDoS defense.
Why Distributed Cloud WAAP Matters
Protect against emerging threats
As apps evolve and API deployments increase, attack surface areas are increasing and bring greater risk.
Dramatically simpler operations
Reduce the number of point solutions and centralize security policy enforcement across distributed environments.
Best-in-class bot detection and WAF
Market-leading bot detection technology for highly accurate protection from malicious bots.
Protect the entirety of your apps
Selective coverage is no longer enough. Apps need protections for WAF, API security, DDoS, and bots.
Consistent security policies everywhere
Deploy consistent policies across your entire estate of apps regardless of where they’re hosted.
End-to-end observability
Gain valuable insights and telemetry across your distributed app infrastructure from a centralized user interface.
Distributed Cloud WAAP vs. Traditional CDN
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Automation for deployment and policy changes |
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Visualization for violations, traffic patterns, and DDoS events |
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API auto discovery and allowlisting |
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Signature scanning and AI/ML for anomaly and malicious user detection |
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AI/ML for false positive identification and elimination |
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Backbone, smart routing, and origin tunneling |
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Deployment modes for on-prem (customer edge), public cloud, and F5 global network |
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Threat campaigns for high-accuracy targeting of threats and intent |
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App deployment and protection in one common platform |
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Explore Distributed Cloud WAAP Use Cases
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Secure Apps Everywhere
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Protect against Malicious Bots
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Manage and Secure APIs
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Mitigate Distributed Denial of Service Attacks
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Protect Application Infrastructure
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Prevent Client-Side Attacks
Streamline app security across multi-cloud and edge environments
Mitigate web application attacks and vulnerabilities with comprehensive app security controls and uniform policy and observability, including simplified deployment and management of app security postures across environments and applications.
Improve visibility and identify automated, malicious traffic patterns
Provide enterprises with advanced bot defense and sophisticated security monitoring to eradicate bad traffic that targets user accounts, content scraping, and ad fraud.
Address modern API challenges with automatic API discovery, policy enforcement, and control across apps and APIs
Identify shadow APIs and mitigate API threats with zero-trust implementations for legacy and modern applications. Export Swagger files for API mapping and import these files to simplify security policy configurations.
Ensure app and infrastructure uptime and reliability against DDoS attacks
Distributed Cloud WAAP protects apps against volumetric L3-L7 DDoS attacks at the network edge, ensuring that the app still has global availability without impact to legitimate customers. Distributed Cloud WAAP also provides visibility into both historically mitigated and active attacks so that proactive controls can be enabled to further thwart unwanted bad actors.
Secure the infrastructure your apps depend on
Vulnerabilities and misconfigurations at the infrastructure level leave apps open to attack from both internal and external bad actors. With Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection, get comprehensive visibility into these threats, with the context you need to remediate them.
Build trust by keeping your users safer
Get protection against Magecart, formjacking, skimming, PII harvesting and other critical client-side security vulnerabilities. Distributed Cloud Client-Side Defense JavaScript monitors web pages for suspicious scripts and collects telemetry, which generates actionable alerts viewable in a dashboard with one-click mitigation.
