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AppTrana - API Protection

Keep critical APIs online, cut security overhead, and stay audit ready with fully managed, AI powered API security.

  • Shrink vulnerability exposure windows from months to less than 72 hours with autonomous virtual patching
  • Get a 24x7 managed SOC for continuous tuning, incident response and DDoS and bot monitoring
  • Build resilient APIs with deep API DAST with a zero false positive guarantee
  • Lower security OpEx by offloading API discovery, false positive tuning, and policy management to Indusface 24x7 SOC
  • Avoid surprise costs with a bundled platform. No add-ons. No RPS-based tiers

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Risk-Based Security

API Discovery and Documentation

See every API, not just the ones in your gateway.
Discover and maintain a live inventory of all existing, shadow, zombie, and rogue APIs so nothing critical is left unprotected. Automatically generate OpenAPI (Swagger 3.0) specifications so security, developers, and auditors work from the same, accurate view.

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Apptrana 4 API Protection

As a user, i find it easy to use managed API security services platform

Reviewer Function: IT Security and Risk Management Company Size: 50M - 250M USD
Industry: Healthcare & Biotech
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Risk-Based Security

Risk-Based Security

Focus on the API risks that can actually hurt the business.
Use a risk-based approach that combines dynamic API scanning with embedded manual penetration testing to identify high-impact vulnerabilities first. Cut down false positives and remediate them autonomously.

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Not Just A Firewall But A Full Stack For Securing Web Applications And API

Cloud based deployment of 60+ applications working well

Reviewer Function: IT Security and Risk Management
Company Size: 50M - 250M USD
Industry: Finance
Accurate API Protection

DDoS and Bot Mitigation

Keep APIs responsive even during DDoS and bot surges.
Rely on behaviour-based anomaly detection to spot and block abusive traffic patterns that target APIs. Legitimate customers and partners stay online while volumetric, credential-stuffing, and scraper traffic is filtered out.

Very Cost Effective Enterprise WAF With Fully Managed Service Included In The Offering

We have received a cost-benefit of 50% without compromising on quality after our move from Akamai · Web application Firewall service has an integration between Risk Detection & Protection, which will help us immediately protect the vulnerabilities in the application and Partner APIs (Public-facing APIs) ·

Reviewer Function: General Management
Company Size: 250M - 500M USD
Industry:  Insurance
DDoS and Bot Mitigation
Accurate API Protection

Accurate Protection

Tighten API security with schema driven positive security.
AppTrana enforces each API’s intended behavior using schema validation (methods, paths, parameters, and data types) as a positive security model, and layers negative security checks on top to stop injection attempts, abuse, and other attacks without generating noisy false positives.

Proactive And Fully Featured API Protection

I bought this because it is incredibly advantageous to our company. Cyberattackers apply different types of command injections to acquire access to our mission-critical resources but the Apptrana firewall is a powerful firewall, unlike other firewall options, which can bear all types of attacks and make sure that no one gets illegal access to our system

Reviewer Function: IT Security and Risk Management Company Size: 1B - 3B USD
Industry: IT Services
24x7 Managed SOC For API Security

24x7 Managed SOC For API Security

Your team sees outcomes, not raw alerts.
Instead of triaging endless logs and events, your teams get clear, contextual updates on what was blocked, what was patched, and what needs code-level fixes. This keeps your APIs resilient while keeping OpEx predictable and freeing your engineers from constant firefighting.

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A Very Good And Comprehensive Application Security Solution And Managed Cloud WAF

A solid consolidated offering. We were already using a different CDN service and with the WAF bundled in was very cost-prohibitive. For the WAF component we moved to a bundled service from a cloud provider but without management was not effective.

Reviewer Function: IT Security and Risk Management Company Size: 50M - 250M USD
Industry:  Services
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API PROTECTION

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Other Platforms vs AppTrana API

Typical API Tools Separate tools, add-ons, and manual effort
AppTrana API All-in-one, fully managed web & API security
Risk-based protection for APIs

Typical API Security Platforms

  • API scanning is a separate tool or periodic pen test, not tightly integrated with protection.
  • No clear remediation SLA, so critical API issues stay open for weeks or months.
  • Virtual patching for APIs is manual and depends on your internal team.

AppTrana API Security

  • API-aware DAST and expert pen testing(add-on) feed directly into API protection policies.
  • SwyftComply virtually patches critical, high and medium API vulnerabilities with a 72 hour SLA.
  • Clean, zero vulnerability reports cover both web and API surfaces for audits and regulators.
Security effectiveness (API runtime defense)

Typical API Security Platforms

  • Focus on basic OWASP API Top 10 signatures on a few exposed endpoints.
  • Limited detection for business logic abuse, credential stuffing and token misuse.
  • Bot and DDoS controls are not tuned specifically for API traffic patterns.

AppTrana API Security

  • Comprehensive protection for OWASP API Top 10 and business logic risks on APIs.
  • Behaviour and ML driven anomaly detection helps spot abuse patterns in API calls.
  • Advanced bot and unmetered L3–L7 DDoS protection extend to APIs without extra modules.
API visibility and control

Typical API Security Platforms

  • Depend on gateway configs or Swagger files for visibility.
  • Shadow, unmanaged and deprecated APIs often remain invisible and unprotected.
  • Limited schema validation and weak enforcement of allowed methods and parameters.

AppTrana API Security

  • Automatically discovers active, shadow and deprecated APIs across your estate.
  • Classifies APIs and automatically builds and updates positive security policies so only approved methods, paths and parameters are allowed.
  • No request capping specific to API protection so all legitimate API traffic is covered.
Cost and ROI for API security

Typical API Security Platforms

  • Separate line items for API discovery, API gateway add ons, API scanning and API firewall.
  • Pricing often tied tightly to per request or per endpoint counts.
  • Internal effort for tuning and operations adds hidden cost on top of licenses.

AppTrana API Security

  • API discovery, scanning, protection and managed services are bundled with the AppTrana subscription.
  • No separate SKU needed for basic vs advanced API security features.
  • Reduced tool sprawl and lower internal operations effort improve overall ROI.

Indusface is the only cloud WAAP (WAF) vendor with 100% customer recommendation for 4 consecutive years

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Customer Testimonials


5.0
Feb 27, 2024
Seamless solution for application security.
  • Reviewer Role : Engineering - Other
  • Company Size : 50M - 250M USD
  • Industry : Insurance
seamlessly onboarded 10 applications which included API integration layer, did not see any major issues after onboarding applications to Apptrana
5.0
Feb 22, 2024
Integrated platform for Website and API security.
  • Reviewer Role : BPM Architect
  • Company Size : 30B + USD
  • Industry : IT Services
The integrated DAST scanner is of great value to us, as it helps us look at the open vulnerabilities versus protection status..
5.0
Feb 19, 2024
Happy Customer And Using Apptrana For More Than 5 Years
  • Reviewer Role : AVP, IT Security and Risk Management
  • Company Size : 500M - 1B USD
  • Industry : Finance
Good product and very prompt support from the support team. Would highly recommend Apptrana managed service.
5.0
Jan 20, 2021
Total Application Security offering with WAF CDN website scan, Bot/DDOS mitigation & 24x7
  • Reviewer Role : IT Security and Risk Management
  • Company Size : 1B - 3B USD
  • Industry : IT Services
A fully integrated comprehensive offering providing a 360 degree view of the application security risks ...
5.0
Nov 16, 2022
Very Good Cloud WAF offering and support
  • Reviewer Role : IT Services
  • Company Size : 50M - 250M USD
  • Industry : Banking
As a financial institution a comprehensive security offering backed with support was very important for us and Indusface with their AppTrana offering provided this to us ...
5.0
Nov 21, 2022
Apptrana great option for WAF, Integration Web application scanner and DDOS
  • Reviewer Role : IT Security and Risk Management
  • Company Size : 50M - 250M USD
  • Industry : IT Services
Complete managed service and not just WAF and DDOS, Ease of management, No downtime.
5.0
Nov 21, 2022
AppTrana is a must have for Application Protection
  • Reviewer Role : IT Security and Risk Management
  • Company Size : 1B - 3B USD
  • Industry : Consumer Goods
We have full assurance of protection with Indusface AppTrana and Managed Service from Zero day threats, DDOS ad Bot Attacks.
5.0
Dec 21, 2021
Managed WAF and protection service including DDOS protection
  • Reviewer Role : IT Security and Risk Management
  • Company Size : 3B - 10B USD
  • Industry : Banking
We have been using Indusface WAF since its inception and have seen them evolve from a early stage MVP to a mature powerful product in the WAF and anti DDOS / Bot mitigation.
5.0
Oct 17, 2023
Web Application Firewall that suites your business needs
  • Reviewer Role : IT Services
  • Company Size : 250M - 500M USD
  • Industry : Insurance
Technical support from the product vendor is exceptional. During critical incidents all level of support was made available within no time.
5.0
Feb 3, 2021
Single Product To Take Care Of Entire Application Security
  • Reviewer Role : IT Services
  • Company Size : 500M - 1B USD
  • Industry : Insurance
End to end managed WAF including application risk assessment and virtual patching + DDOS + BOT mitigation + CDN from the single OEM is the best feature ...



The State of Application Security – H1 2025

The State of Application Security H1 Report 2025
  • 4.8 billion attacks witnessed across 1400 sites
  • 3.48 million attacks witnessed per application
  • API attacks grew 104% in H1 2025 vs H1 2024
  • APIs are highly targeted for DDoS
  • Website vulnerability attacks grew 27%, with custom rule mitigations up 47%
  • 64 million bot attacks as 90% of sites witnessed a bot attack
  • US per app ROI: $5.1M–$14.32M per app (including $56K–$57K in operational savings)
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