Radware has just rolled out its API Security Service. This is a comprehensive offering that takes a wide array of steps in order to protect contemporary APIs at all stages of their lifecycle, from discovery and risk analysis to ongoing protection. This offering has been developed with complex and actual environments in mind and uses production traffic in order to provide accurate and constantly updated knowledge.
As APIs progress in enabling digital services, conventions in security solutions find it increasingly difficult to keep up with the dynamic nature of evolving APIs. The solution to this issue provided by Radware’s product involves bundling API discovery, posture, and proactive protection in one tool to ensure that both developers and security teams are working with a common fact base regarding APIs.
Addressing Fragmentation in API Security
The rise of API domains, whether internal, external, and third-party APIs, has made it difficult for organizations to gain a comprehensive view of their API domains. Conventional methods such as code reviews, Software Bills of Material (SBOM), and log file checks tend to generate a torrent of warnings with little clarity on what constitutes a critical issue for a production setup. On the other hand, Shadow APIs tend to go undetected with unaddressed risks.
In this regard, the API Security Service offered by Radware overcomes such challenges by continuously discovering APIs and automatically creating profiles for them based on their real-world usage patterns. As such, risk assessments are based on real exposure to vulnerabilities as opposed to theoretical models.
Unified Lifecycle Protection for APIs
The API Security Service combines three critical capabilities in one continuous platform:
- Comprehensive Discovery: Automatically inventories all APIs including unknown, internal, and third-party services and keeps the inventory current as APIs evolve.
- Runtime Posture Management: Assesses misconfigurations and vulnerabilities based on real traffic patterns, delivering risk prioritization grounded in actual usage.
- Real-Time Protection: Shields APIs against a wide range of threats from injection-based attacks and HTTP DDoS to bot-driven campaigns and complex business logic abuse.
This integration bridges the gap between DevOps and security teams, aligning priorities and enabling more accurate risk mitigation throughout the application lifecycle.
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Runtime Intelligence Enhances Risk Insight
At its heart, the service uses runtime traffic analysis for building security intelligence. The platform identifies-by monitoring live production behavior-which vulnerabilities are truly exploitable and where actual risk resides, reducing guesswork and eliminating costly false positives often generated by static tools.
In other words, DevSecOps teams know that remediation efforts are focused on issues that will make a real difference in production. Security operations teams receive continuous protection that evolves with API changes, not from outdated scans or delayed log data.
Behavioral Detection for Sophisticated Threats
Modern API threats often exploit legitimate workflows by chaining sequences of API calls that bypass traditional defenses. Radware’s service provides visibility into business logic flows and API call sequences, enabling detection and prevention of advanced attacks that conceal themselves within normal traffic patterns.
The behavioral enforcement at runtime helps stop abuse while preserving legitimate user interactions, delivering robust security without disrupting operations.
Transforming API Security into a Continuous Strategic Process
By consolidating discovery, posture management, and runtime protection, Radware’s API Security Service transforms the way organizations defend their API ecosystems. The platform not only enhances visibility and risk accuracy but also enables teams to work collaboratively with confidence that protection keeps pace with API innovation.
“The API discovery aided in the reduction of our overhead costs by around 20 percent. The APIs are protected in real-time, which enabled us to decrease operational complexity and costs significantly.” EVP, Chief Digital Officer and Head of Cybersecurity.
The service supports seamless deployment across diverse environments including on-premises data centers, public and private clouds, hybrid architectures, and microservices platforms without requiring traffic redirection.
Organizations interested in enhancing API protection can engage with Radware for demos, trials, or business logic mapping sessions to see how the API Security Service can safeguard digital assets in real time.