
Application Security
Radware Cloud Application Protection Services
Cloud WAAP suite protecting web apps, APIs, bots, and LLM prompts via one behavioral model.
Radware Cloud Application Protection Services Overview
What it does
Radware Cloud Application Protection Services is a cloud-delivered web application and API protection (WAAP) suite that surrounds applications, APIs, and generative AI tools with integrated modules feeding a shared detection layer. It pairs a negative security model with an automated positive security model built from behavioral analysis, learning each application's legitimate behavior and blocking traffic that deviates. Coverage spans web applications, APIs, client-side supply chains, automated bot threats, and large language model (LLM) prompts across on-premises, Kubernetes, hybrid, and public cloud environments.
How it works
The service runs real-time cloud protection engines for web application firewall (WAF), bot management, API protection, client-side protection, and Web DDoS mitigation, coordinated by Radware's EPIC-AI reasoning layer that correlates signals across engines and third-party enforcement points. The WAF auto-learns application behavior and continuously tunes policies to reduce false positives, while API protection continuously discovers endpoints and models business logic to stop abuse. Bot Manager applies behavioral algorithms and real-time signatures with CAPTCHA-less challenges, and an LLM Firewall inspects generative AI prompts. Cross-module correlation compiles related detections into a single attack story.
Credentials and traction
Radware holds SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017, ISO/IEC 27018, ISO/IEC 27701, and ISO/IEC 42001 certifications, and supports PCI DSS 4.0 and HIPAA obligations. KuppingerCole named Radware a Leader in its 2025 WAAP Leadership Compass, and QKS placed it as a Leader in the Q3 2025 SPARK Matrix for Web Application Firewall. Publicly traded on NASDAQ (RDWR) and founded in 1997, Radware serves more than 12,500 enterprise and carrier customers worldwide.
Key Capabilities
mapped to solution categoriesMachine learning and behavioral analysis to detect anomalous traffic and reduce false positives beyond static rules.
Signature- and rule-based detection and blocking of common web attacks such as those in the OWASP Top 10.
Detection and mitigation of volumetric and application-layer (L7) denial-of-service attacks.
Monitoring and control of client-side scripts to defend against Magecart-style and supply-chain web attacks.
Detection and mitigation of malicious automated traffic and advanced, evasive bots.
Provides real-time inbound and outbound monitoring and input/output guardrails for AI-powered applications to prevent unauthorized data exposure and unsafe model responses.
Controls request volume per user or client within defined time intervals.
Detects automation through layered client-side and server-side detection models - behavioral, device, network, and challenge signals - resilient to AI-driven evasion and CAPTCHA-solving services.
Protects account creation, login, and session flows against credential stuffing, account takeover, and fake-account abuse, building per-account trust from user, device, and session signals.
Detects and governs content scraping, including LLM training and retrieval crawlers: blocking value-damaging scrapers while permitting or monetizing sanctioned automated access.
Determines and surfaces the intent behind automated traffic - distinguishing malicious bots, benign automation, LLM crawlers, and human-delegated AI agents - so policy decisions rest on what the traffic is trying to do, not only whether it is automated.
Establishes and manages trusted relationships with legitimate AI agents: an out-of-the-box library of known agents plus granular per-agent permissions and policies governing what each agent may access and do.
Protects high-value transaction flows (checkout, payments, hype sales, registrations) from automated abuse while prioritizing legitimate human and agent-delegated transactions.
Continuously discovers and inventories all APIs across the environment, including shadow and zombie APIs that are not tracked in the official catalog.
Detects and blocks malicious API behavior at runtime using anomaly and behavioral analysis trained on attack patterns.
Detects and rate-limits automated abuse, credential stuffing, scraping, and misuse of sensitive business flows.
Identifies APIs that transmit or return sensitive data such as personal information, credentials, or tokens, so exposure can be flagged and controlled.
Validates live API traffic against the documented OpenAPI or schema definition to catch undocumented endpoints, unexpected parameters, and drift.
Detects broken object-level and function-level authorization, where a caller can reach data or operations belonging to another user or role.
Compliance
certificationsImplementation & support
Info last updated on August 1, 2026
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