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API and Application Security Solutions

The API & Application Security solution is a comprehensive platform designed to secure applications and APIs. It enables enterprises to protect websites, web applications, mobile apps, APIs, bot traffic, and AI/LLM systems against modern threats.

As applications become increasingly distributed across cloud, on-premises, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud environments, securing applications and APIs has become a critical necessity. Enterprises must safeguard data, maintain performance, and ensure a seamless user experience.

This solution was developed by Radware. In Vietnam, Sonic Tech provides the API & Application Security solution to enterprises seeking to protect their applications, APIs, and digital infrastructure. The platform integrates WAF, API Protection, Bot Manager, Layer 7 DDoS Protection, Client-side Protection, an LLM Firewall, and a Threat Intelligence Service.

Overview of API and Application Security Solutions

API & Application Security solutions focus on securing applications and APIs within modern digital environments. These solutions protect applications, APIs, user traffic, client-side data, and integrated components—such as AI agents, LLM modules, third-party JavaScript, and cloud services.

Applications and APIs now serve as critical operational foundations for enterprises, connecting customers, partners, data, and backend systems. As applications evolve rapidly, the attack surface expands accordingly.

Consequently, enterprises require a robust application and API security platform—one capable of protecting the entire application lifecycle without disrupting business operations.

Radware – Provider of application and API security solutions

Radware was founded in 1997 and is a global technology company headquartered in Israel. The company specializes in providing cybersecurity and application performance optimization solutions for enterprises, government organizations, and critical infrastructure.

Radware’s core capabilities include:

• Application Security
• DDoS Protection
• Web Application Firewall (WAF)
• API Security
• Cloud Application Protection
• AI Security
• Bot Management
• Threat Intelligence

Application protection across cloud, on-premises, private cloud, public cloud, and multi-cloud environments.

Leveraging AI, automation, and behavioral analytics, Radware enables businesses to deploy application and API security in a flexible and efficient manner.

Why do businesses need application and API security?

The boundaries of application security are increasingly expanding.

Modern applications are no longer confined to a fixed system; they can run across on-premises, private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud, or multi-cloud environments.

Many applications also utilize diverse frameworks, integrate with external services, and undergo constant change, making security boundaries difficult to manage.

API and Application Security solutions enable enterprises to manage risk across the entire attack surface, providing protection that spans from clients, servers, and API communications to intermediate layers.

Application ecosystems rely heavily on third parties

Modern applications often depend on third-party JavaScript, data from external services, LLM modules, AI agents, and APIs. While these components accelerate innovation, they also introduce additional security risks.

Without an application and API security platform, businesses may face various threats, including data leaks, client-side supply chain attacks, API abuse, and business logic exploitation.

APIs have become prime targets for attacks

APIs serve as the bridge connecting applications, data, mobile apps, back-end systems, partners, and the cloud. As API usage has proliferated, so too have attacks targeting them.

Common attack vectors include API abuse, business logic attacks, credential stuffing, brute-force attacks, and API-based DDoS attacks. Consequently, enterprises require automated, continuous, and real-time security for their applications and APIs.

The rise of zero-day and AI-driven attacks
Generative AI enables hackers to automate scanning processes and payload generation. Zero-day attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated, with many threats lacking distinct signatures.

In this landscape, API and application security solutions must possess self-learning and adaptive capabilities. Behavioral analysis is also crucial for detecting anomalies.

Balancing security and user experience

Overly strict security policies risk blocking legitimate users, while policies that are too lax leave systems vulnerable to exploitation.

Radware employs AI and behavioral analysis to minimize false positives, thereby maintaining robust application and API security without compromising the user experience.

How do API and Application Security solutions help secure applications and APIs?

Radware’s API & Application Security solution is a security platform based on the WAAP (Web Application & API Protection) model. It serves as a “one-stop shop” for modern application protection needs.

Key components include:

• Web Application Firewall – WAF
• API Protection
• Bot Manager
• Web DDoS Protection – Layer 7
• Account Takeover Protection – ATO
• Client-side Protection
• LLM Firewall cho AI/Generative AI
• ERT Active Attackers Feed
• Threat Intelligence Service
• Cloud Application Protection Services
• Radware SecurePath
• CDN tích hợp

These components help secure applications and APIs across multiple environments. The solution does not hinder business operations, while the platform ensures scalability as the business grows.

Key value of application and API security solutions

Protecting applications, APIs, bots, and AI on a single platform

Radware provides comprehensive protection against a wide range of attack vectors. The solution safeguards against web application vulnerabilities, API security risks, malicious bots, Layer 7 DDoS attacks, client-side attacks, and LLM-related threats.

The platform supports key standards and risk categories, such as:

• OWASP Top 10
• OWASP API Security Top 10
• OWASP Top 21 Automated Threats
• OWASP Top 10 for LLM

Thanks to its multi-layered architecture, the API and Application Security solution enables enterprises to manage risks across applications, APIs, bots, the client-side, and AI.

Leveraging AI to Reduce False Positives

Radware utilizes AI to automate various security processes. The platform learns legitimate behavior, analyzes patterns, discovers APIs, and fine-tunes policies.

This enhances the effectiveness of application and API security. Businesses benefit from fewer false positives, reduced manual effort, and faster response times.

Flexible Adaptation Without Disruption

The solution integrates seamlessly into existing application development lifecycles and infrastructure. As applications evolve, the platform automatically adapts to maintain continuous protection.

The API & Application Security solution enables businesses to strengthen security without disrupting operations—a critical factor for high-traffic systems.

Consistent Security Across Cloud, On-Premise, and Multi-Cloud

Radware delivers a uniform level of protection across diverse environments, including on-premise setups, data centers, private clouds, public clouds, hybrid clouds, and multi-cloud architectures.

This allows businesses to implement consistent application and API security, making it an ideal choice for organizations with widely distributed applications.

Reducing the Operational Security Burden

The solution minimizes configuration effort and lowers false positive rates. Radware’s Emergency Response Team (ERT) provides 24/7 support to handle critical incidents.

Consequently, the API & Application Security solution helps businesses cut operational costs while reducing the security team’s reliance on manual configuration.

Comprehensive Application and API Security Architecture

The API & Application Security solution provides comprehensive protection spanning the client, server, and intermediate layers. This architecture is well-suited for modern applications, cloud environments, and microservices models.

Client-side Protection

Client-side protection mitigates risks stemming from browsers, third-party scripts, and client-side malicious code. This is a critical layer of defense for e-commerce, finance, banking, and digital services.

Server-side Protection

Server-side protection safeguards backends, APIs, application logic, and sensitive data. This layer helps prevent vulnerability exploitation, unauthorized access, and business logic attacks.

Intermediate Layer Protection

Radware secures API communication, traffic flows, and data exchanges, enabling control over the entire communication path between client and server.

Compliance Support

The solution helps enterprises meet various standards and regulations, including PCI DSS 4.0, NIS2, GDPR, HIPAA, DORA, and other security requirements.

Key components of the API and Application Security solution

Web Application Firewall – WAF

Radware’s WAF helps protect web applications against vulnerability exploitation attacks. The solution also blocks hacking attempts and common application-layer threats.

The WAF employs an AI-driven positive security model. The platform learns legitimate user behavior and continuously refines its policies, helping to reduce false positives.

Radware combines positive and negative security models, enabling the WAF to defend against the OWASP Top 10, zero-day exploits, and unknown threats.

Within the API & Application Security solution, the WAF serves as a critical layer of defense, protecting web applications against both common and advanced attacks.

API Protection

Radware’s API Protection provides end-to-end API security. The solution automatically discovers APIs, maps API structures, and identifies endpoints.

The platform utilizes behavioral analysis and policy automation, enabling enterprises to detect and block API attacks in real time.

API Protection helps prevent API abuse, business logic attacks, and anomalies in API traffic flows. It is a core component of application and API security.

Bot Manager

Bot Manager helps distinguish between real users, good bots, and bad bots. It is a solution designed to protect web applications, mobile apps, and APIs against automated threats.

Key technologies include behavioral analysis, machine learning-based anomaly detection, and device and browser fingerprinting. The platform also detects distributed bots and evasion techniques.

Bot Manager helps defend against various threats listed in the OWASP Top 21 Automated Threats, including:

• Account takeover
• Credential stuffing
• Brute force
• Scraping
• Payment fraud
• Inventory abuse
• Bot automation
• AI-driven bots
• GenAI crawlers and agents

A key highlight is the blockchain-based Cryptographic Challenge mechanism. This mechanism depletes bot resources without the need for CAPTCHAs, ensuring a smooth experience for genuine users.

DDoS Layer 7 Protection

Radware’s Web DDoS Protection safeguards applications against Layer 7 DDoS attacks. The solution utilizes AI to analyze behavior and distinguish between legitimate and malicious traffic.

The platform can automatically generate signatures in real-time, enabling businesses to respond quickly to new attacks.

Supported protections cover the following types of attacks:

• HTTP Flood
• Slow and Low attacks
• HTTP bombs
• Brute force
• API DDoS
• Application resource exhaustion attack

Within the API & Application Security solution, Layer 7 DDoS protection helps maintain application availability. The solution also minimizes impact on legitimate users.

Client-side Protection

Client-side Protection safeguards users and data against browser-based risks. The solution monitors third-party scripts and detects anomalous behavior.

Client-side Protection helps meet PCI DSS 4.0 requirements. It also prevents attack vectors such as Magecart, formjacking, skimming, and DOM-based XSS.

Key capabilities include:

• Automatically detect third-party scripts
• Monitor detailed activity
• Assess risk levels
• Prevent data leakage
• Block communication with untrusted domains

With Client-side Protection, application and API security extends to the user’s browser.

ERT Active Attackers Feed

The ERT Active Attackers Feed functions as a dedicated cyber intelligence system. This service adds a proactive layer of defense to Radware’s mitigation solutions.

The feed provides a list of attackers who have previously engaged in:

• DDoS attack
• Application attack
• Intrusion
• Scanning attack

Leveraging global threat intelligence, ERT Feed proactively blocks known attackers. It serves as a critical enhancement layer within the API & Application Security solution.

LLM Firewall

An LLM Firewall protects the use of Generative AI and large language models. It provides real-time security controls directly at the prompt layer.

An LLM Firewall helps detect and prevent:

• Prompt injection
• Data leakage
• Malicious content
• Usage policy violations
• Brand safety risks
• Threats from the OWASP Top 10 for LLMs

The LLM Firewall is model-agnostic, meaning the solution does not rely on any specific AI model; businesses can integrate it with a wide range of LLMs.

Its inline pre-origin protection mechanism blocks requests before they reach the backend, thereby reducing system load and compute costs.

With the LLM Firewall, the API and Application Security solution extends protection to AI and Generative AI, enabling businesses to mitigate risks such as prompt injection and data leakage without stifling innovation.

Threat Intelligence Service

The Threat Intelligence Service provides real-time insights derived from global attack data. This service enables businesses to proactively defend against threats before attacks escalate.

Key capabilities include:

• Analyzing attack traffic
• Monitoring threat trends
• Analyzing suspicious IPs
• Looking up open proxies, malware, and reputation data
• Reputation alerts
• REST API integration with SIEM, SOC, and security tools
• Industry and country-specific reporting
• Monitoring hacker groups and Telegram activity
• In the realm of application and API security, Threat Intelligence enhances data-driven decision-making. The service also helps reduce incident response times.

Radware’s global cloud network

Radware Cloud Application Protection Services are built upon a global security network comprising distributed Points of Presence (PoPs) and scrubbing centers.

The objective is to position the protection layer as close to the origin server as possible, ensuring attacks are mitigated at the network edge. This approach optimizes performance and minimizes latency.

Key highlights include:

• Globally distributed protection network
• Global mitigation capacity of up to 15 Tbps
• Tier-1 ISP connectivity
• Protection close to the source
• Large-scale, Tbps-level DDoS protection
• Backend offloading
• Optimized user experience

Leveraging a global cloud network, the API and Application Security solution ensures security while maintaining application performance.

Radware SecurePath in Application and API Security

Radware SecurePath is an API-based cloud application security architecture. It protects applications across cloud, data center, on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud environments.

SecurePath supports two primary deployment models: inline deployment and API-based out-of-path deployment.

Inline deployment

In the inline model, the solution operates directly within the traffic flow, inspecting and controlling all requests.

This model is suitable for enterprises requiring strict control. The solution can be deployed in cloud, virtual cloud, or on-premises environments.

API-based out-of-path deployment

In the API-based out-of-path model, the solution does not sit within the main traffic flow. Requests travel directly from the client to the server, with only the necessary data sent for security analysis.

Key benefits include:

• Reduced latency
• No need to share SSL keys
• No DNS changes required
• No BGP routing changes required
• Enhanced privacy
• Increased uptime
• No bottlenecks
• Minimal infrastructure changes

With SecurePath, application and API security can be deployed flexibly, while businesses maintain system performance and availability.

Integrated CDN in API and Application Security Solutions

Radware offers a CDN solution integrated into its application security platform. The CDN is also managed via the Radware Cloud Security Portal.

Radware’s CDN solution is built on Amazon CloudFront. This platform enables high-speed content delivery across a global infrastructure.

Key features include:

• Security and CDN on a single platform
• Centralized management via the Radware Cloud Security Portal
• Large-scale AWS infrastructure
• Over 600 PoPs
• Over 100 cities
• Over 50 countries
• Single SSL key shared with WAF
• Advanced reporting and analytics
• Cost optimization
• Managed services to reduce TCO
• Website and application acceleration

Thanks to the integrated CDN, the API and Application Security solution does more than just protect the system; it also improves performance and the user experience.

API and Application Security Solution Deployment Model

API & Application Security solutions can be deployed across multiple environments. This aligns with modern enterprise architectures.

Deployment environments include:

• Public cloud
• Private cloud
• On-premise
• Data center
• Virtual ADC – Application Delivery Controller
• Hybrid cloud
• Multi-cloud

Flexible deployment capabilities enable businesses to maintain consistent application and API security, while the solution ensures scalability based on actual demand.

Third-party evaluation of Radware

Based on Radware documentation, GigaOm awarded Radware a 5-star rating for AI. GigaOm also ranked Radware as a “Leader” in its Radar report on Application and API Security.

Radware has also been recognized as a leader in the field of AI-enhanced vulnerability detection. This distinction underscores Radware’s capabilities in application and API protection, as well as modern threat detection.

Given these accolades, the API & Application Security solution is an ideal choice for enterprises seeking a modern, highly adaptable security platform.

Benefits of API and Application Security Solutions for Vietnamese Businesses

Digital transformation is rapidly unfolding in Vietnam. Sectors such as finance, banking, e-commerce, telecommunications, manufacturing, logistics, education, healthcare, and public services rely heavily on applications and APIs.

Radware’s API & Application Security solutions help businesses:

• Protect web applications, mobile apps, and APIs
• Mitigate risks from bots and automated attacks
• Defend against Layer 7 and API DDoS attacks
• Protect user data and online transactions
• Manage risks associated with third-party scripts
• Protect AI/LLMs against prompt injection
• Reduce the risk of data leakage
• Support compliance with PCI DSS 4.0, GDPR, HIPAA, DORA, and NIS2
• Maintain high performance and low latency
• Reduce security operational costs
• Ensure consistent protection across cloud, on-premises, and multi-cloud environments

Overall, this solution is well-suited for organizations requiring application and API security within a unified, centralized management system.

Sonic Tech Provides API & Application Security Solutions in Vietnam
Sonic Technology Solutions Joint Stock Company (Sonic Tech) is a strategic partner of Radware, bringing advanced AI-driven security solutions to the Vietnamese market.

Sonic Tech supports clients through needs assessment, architectural consulting, solution testing, technical implementation, and operational optimization. The Sonic Tech team possesses extensive experience in partnering with enterprises on cybersecurity initiatives.

In addition to API & Application Security solutions, Sonic Tech offers a wide range of solutions covering data security, infrastructure protection, cloud security, and system optimization.

Enterprises interested in learning more about or testing these API & Application Security solutions are encouraged to contact Sonic Tech for assistance.

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