API Security

Wallarm Named a Leader in GigaOm Radar for API Security

I am thrilled to share that Wallarm, has been named a leader in the GigaOm Radar for API Security!

We would like to share insights from the recent GigaOm 2023 API Security Radar report, particularly shining a spotlight on our Advanced API Security solution.

The growing importance of APIs and API Security

APIs are rapidly becoming the primary target for cyber-attacks within organizations. As the number of APIs continues to grow across Enterprises, protecting them becomes as crucial as safeguarding web properties. Unlike the well understood ways of securing networks and endpoints, securing APIs is still an evolving challenge, with many enterprises just beginning their API security journey and discovering the APIs within their infrastructure.

The GigaOm API Security Radar

The GigaOm API Security Radar report is one of its kind report and it serves as a guide for IT decision-makers, highlighting key API security vendors and providing information to select the most suitable solution for specific business and use case requirements. The report details insights into the capabilities and metrics used to evaluate vendors in the API security market.

It highlights that API security solutions not only need to discover APIs but also must be capable of protecting them once identified. The report emphasizes the importance of evaluating API security products based on the standards they protect, and the depth of protection provided, including the safeguarding of the data layer.

What GigaOm says about Wallarm

The GigaOm report discusses Wallarm’s API and Application Security Platform, which offers API Attack Surface Management, Advanced API Security and Cloud-Native WAAP products.

  • Wallarm is available for use in various environments, including hosted, public cloud, or local installations and is licensed based on throughput, with a free version offered as well.
  • Wallarm’s Advanced API Security solution includes features such as API discovery, API abuse prevention, API leak management, and API security testing. It prioritizes dynamic protection, excelling in API abuse detection and prevention.
  • Wallarm API Security is very focused on dynamic protection. It includes some of the best API abuse detection and prevention of the products in this analysis, earning it a high score for that key criterion.
  • Wallarm leads in incorporating AI for developing tests, protections, and runtime detection filtering, minimizing false positives.
  • Wallarm has been recognized for supporting a variety of API standards, and support for OpenAPI based testing, emphasizing REST API centrality and testing.

Our Customers Love Wallarm for API and Application Security

Our customers love our integrated API and Application Security platform to solve critical business and technical challenges.

Few reasons why our customers love us:

  1. Integrated Platform: Our Integrated Platform for API Discovery, API Security Posture Management, Real-Time API Protection, API Security Testing, and Web Application Firewall capabilities in a single, consolidated platform, delivering more functionality with less complexity.
  2. Rapid Threat Response: Our Ability to respond quickly to threats with updated attack protection and vulnerability identification provides customers with confidence that their APIs are protected.
  3. Deployment Flexibility: We support a wide variety of customer architectures with the most flexible deployment available.
  4. API Protocol Support: We support legacy and modern application and API protocols and legacy protocols, providing customers with broad coverage of their application infrastructure.
  5. Superior Customer Support: Our customers tell us that Wallarm’s support is unique among their vendors in terms of responsiveness, flexibility, and quality.

Get the GigaOm Report Today!

We invite you to peruse the GigaOm Radar for API Security and learn why Wallarm is a leader. Review the GigaOm Radar, read the Insights to secure your APIs and Applications.

Let us know how we can help.

Regards.
Girish Bhat

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