APIs are at the core of modern digital experiences, and they’re expanding faster than traditional security approaches can keep up. To address this challenge, Radware’s new API Security Service delivers a unified, end-to-end solution that protects APIs across their entire lifecycle, from discovery and posture management to real-time runtime protection.
By using live production traffic as its source of truth, Radware’s API Security Service provides an accurate, continuously updated view of API behavior, exposure, and risk—grounded in how APIs are actually used, not how they were intended to be used in theory.
Why API Security Needs a Rethink
As organizations push innovation forward, their application environments and APIs grow at a rapid pace. New endpoints are introduced constantly, third-party services are integrated, and APIs evolve continuously. Despite this growth, API security is often fragmented and incomplete.
Development teams typically assess risk using code analysis, SBOMs, and retrospective log reviews. While these tools can surface potential weaknesses, they often generate large volumes of alerts without clearly indicating which vulnerabilities are truly reachable or exploitable in live production environments.
At the same time, security teams lack full visibility into the API landscape. Shadow APIs, undocumented endpoints, and external integrations frequently remain undiscovered. Without comprehensive API discovery and management, organizations are unable to clearly define what needs protection.
The outcome is a disjointed API security approach where development and security teams operate in silos, risk prioritization is inconsistent, and meaningful threats remain hidden.
A Unified Approach Across the API Lifecycle
Radware’s new API Security Service addresses these challenges by unifying API discovery, posture management, and runtime protection into a single, continuous security platform.
Automatic discovery identifies all APIs—known, unknown, internal, and third-party—providing a complete and continuously updated inventory. Posture management then evaluates configuration issues and vulnerabilities based on actual API usage, ensuring risk assessments reflect real-world exposure rather than theoretical assumptions. Runtime protection ensures that all APIs are continuously protected against a wide range of attacks—from injection-based threats and HTTP DDoS to API bot attacks and sophisticated business logic abuse.
This unified foundation ensures both development and security teams operate from the same accurate view of the API environment.
Runtime Intelligence That Reveals What Truly Matters
At the core of Radware’s approach is runtime traffic analysis. By observing live production behavior, the service determines which vulnerabilities are genuinely exploitable, how APIs are accessed, and where real risk exists.
For DevSecOps teams, this means eliminating guesswork and focusing remediation efforts on issues that have true production impact. For security teams, it enables continuous protection that adapts as APIs evolve—without relying on outdated scans or delayed log analysis.
Visibility Into Business Logic and Advanced Attacks
Many of today’s most damaging API attacks don’t target a single endpoint. Instead, they abuse legitimate workflows and sequences of API calls, allowing them to blend into normal traffic and evade traditional defenses.
Radware’s API Security Service provides visibility into API sequences and business logic flows, enabling detection and prevention of sophisticated attacks that would otherwise go unnoticed. Runtime protection enforces security at the behavioral level, stopping abuse without disrupting legitimate users.
From Fragmentation to Continuous Protection
Radware’s new API Security Service delivers what modern API environments demand: unified visibility, accurate risk assessment, and real-time protection—powered by real production traffic.
By bringing discovery, posture management, and runtime protection together in a single platform, Radware transforms API security from a collection of disconnected tools into a continuous, collaborative process. Now development and security teams can gain shared visibility, clear priorities, and confidence that protection keeps pace with innovation: DevSecOp teams can immediately see which vulnerabilities are actually exploitable in production and fix what matters most, dramatically reducing alert fatigue and eliminating guesswork. Security teams gain full discovery across all APIs and, for the first time, visibility into API sequences and business logic flows. This enables them to detect and stop attacks that previously went unnoticed.
Ready to Secure Your APIs? Radware API Security Service's unique architecture enables seamless integration, even without traffic redirection, into any application environment—from on-prem data centers to private clouds, public clouds, hybrid deployments, microservices architectures, and everything in between.
Contact us for a demo, free trial or business logic mapping session to see how Radware can help you protect your business in real time.
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