Prophaze WAAP

What it does

Prophaze WAAP is a cloud Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) platform that defends web applications, APIs, and microservices against the OWASP Top 10, bot abuse, and Layer 7 denial-of-service attacks. Its distinguishing approach is a Kubernetes-native, edge-deployed engine that replaces static signature rules with machine-learning behavioral analysis, building per-application traffic baselines to flag anomalous requests and zero-day attempts before published signatures exist.

How it works

The platform inspects traffic inline at the edge across cloud, Kubernetes ingress, hybrid, and on-premises environments, applying behavioral models and deep payload inspection to every web request and API call. It automatically discovers APIs across cloud, container, and legacy systems, validates them against OpenAPI schemas to surface drift and exposed endpoints, and enforces rate limiting and bot mitigation at the perimeter. A single policy set spans every environment, and security events stream to SIEM tooling, Slack, and Microsoft Teams for alerting. Onboarding is zero-code and typically completes in under fifteen minutes.

Credentials and traction

Prophaze is positioned as an Overall Leader and Product Leader in the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Web Application Firewalls (2022 and 2024). It is featured in Gartner Market Guides for API Protection and Cloud WAAP, acknowledged in the 2025 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for API Security, and named a G2 High Performer in Fall 2024. Customers include enterprises such as Vedanta, GMR Group, and India's National Housing Bank, spanning banking, healthcare, education, and public-sector organizations.