Application Security

API security platforms with discovery and risk assessment continuously find, classify, and protect APIs. Best for business-logic protection: Radware; agentless discovery: Salt Security; lifecycle testing: Akamai; inline blocking: Traceable.

Enterprise API tools combine lifecycle management with runtime security for REST and GraphQL APIs. Radware API Security Service is best for runtime discovery and business logic protection, Salt Security for behavioral threat detection, Google Apigee for full-lifecycle API management, and Azure API Management for Azure-native governance.

Application security solutions protect apps and APIs across the development lifecycle. Best for cloud WAF: Radware; best for Open-source WAF: ModSecurity; best for SAST: Veracode; beset for SCA: Black Duck.

Behavioral analytics for API traffic monitoring baselines normal API usage and flags deviations that static rules miss. Radware is best for real-time business logic learning and blocking, Salt Security for low-and-slow attack detection, Akamai for lifecycle posture and testing, and Wallarm for inline session-level blocking.

Application vulnerability protection services combine runtime defense for live apps and APIs with testing that finds flaws before release. Radware is best for integrated protection across hybrid environments, Akamai for edge-delivered defense, Veracode for full-lifecycle testing, and Snyk for developer-first scanning.

The European Union's updated, comprehensive cybersecurity framework. Replacing the original NIS framework, it enforces strict risk-management, incident reporting, and supply chain security rules across 18 critical sectors, with maximum fines reaching up to €10 million or 2% of an organization's global annual turnover.

A GraphQL API is an application programming interface that utilizes GraphQL, a query language for APIs, to enable clients to request precisely the data they need. Unlike traditional REST APIs, which often require multiple requests to different endpoints to gather related data, GraphQL allows clients to define the structure of the data they require in a single query, resulting in a single response with only the requested fields.

URL normalization refers to when a URL that has been reformatted to ensure that documents that are denoted by multiple URLs will be indexed only once.