AI has become central to application security. But the real measure of AI maturity is not whether a vendor claims to use AI. It is how broadly and effectively AI is applied across protection, enforcement, and security operations.
The new QKS AI Maturity Matrix for Web Application and API Protection evaluates vendors across AI vision, productization, operational execution, and measurable customer outcomes. It examines AI integration across WAF, API Security, bot management, DDoS protection, LLM and agentic AI protection, and SecOps intelligence.
QKS positions Radware as the Most Valuable Pioneer, the leading position in the matrix, recognizing the breadth and maturity of its AI capabilities.
AI Embedded Across the Platform
According to QKS, Radware stands out because AI is a foundational platform capability, rather than an isolated feature.
Radware applies behavioral intelligence, risk scoring, intent-based classification, and cross-module correlation across WAF, API Security, Bot and Agent Management, Web DDoS Protection, LLM Firewall, and Agentic AI Protection. This allows protection to continuously learn from behavior, generate and tune policies, and enforce decisions in real time.
As the report notes:
“The breadth of AI application spanning enforcement, detection, posture management, operational intelligence, and agentic protection distinguishes Radware from vendors whose AI investments remain concentrated in one or two capability areas.”
This broad approach helps turn AI-driven insights into real-time protection, automated policy generation, and adaptive enforcement.
Protecting the Web, API, and Agent Economies
The application attack surface is expanding beyond traditional web applications. Organizations must now protect API-first environments, LLM applications, autonomous agents, MCP endpoints, and agent-to-tool interactions.
QKS recognizes Radware for advancing across both the established Web and API Economy and the emerging Agent Economy. As the report states:
“No other vendor in this evaluation has advanced as comprehensively into both the Web & API Economy and the emerging Agentic Economy.”
Radware’s API capabilities span continuous discovery, runtime posture management, business logic protection, pre-production testing, and runtime enforcement. Its LLM Firewall and Agentic AI Protection extend this approach to prompt-based applications, AI agents, and their interactions with enterprise tools and APIs.
Turning AI Insights into Protection
AI maturity must also deliver measurable operational value.
AI SOC Xpert aggregates telemetry across protection modules, correlates attack activity, performs root-cause analysis, and provides AI-driven remediation guidance. QKS identifies it as Radware’s most compelling operational differentiator and highlights its ability to reduce mean time to resolution from more than 90 minutes to under three minutes.
Radware also applies AI to the vulnerability exposure window through AI Xploit Shield, which generates customer-specific protections while organizations validate and deploy permanent fixes.
A Broader Approach to AI Security
The QKS AI Maturity Matrix shows that AI leadership is no longer defined by isolated detection features. It depends on how effectively AI is applied across discovery, protection, enforcement, investigation, and response.
The report also highlights Radware’s strong, forward-looking roadmap as further evidence of its readiness to support the continued evolution of AI-powered application security and the emerging Agent Economy.
Radware’s position as the Most Valuable Pioneer recognizes the breadth and maturity of its approach across Application Protection, API Security, AI-driven security operations, LLM security, and Agentic AI Protection.
Read the full QKS AI Maturity Matrix to learn why Radware was positioned as the Most Valuable Pioneer in AI-powered Web Application and API Protection.