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Wallarm vs WAF/WAAP
Wallarm is the only platform that unifies best-in-class API Security and WAAP (Next-gen WAF) solutions to protect your whole API and application portfolio in multi-cloud and cloud-native environment.
General Comparison
Protecting APIs and web applications is crucial for modern organizations. To do so, you need complete visibility into your entire portfolio with the ability to detect & respond to a new breed of threats – without adding complexity to your security stack or workflows.
Complete coverage without adding complexity
- Wallarm is the only platform that supports both out-of-band deployment and superb inline deployment (near-zero latency)
- Wallarm provides protection for both exposed and internal applications
Wallarm
WAAP Vendors
APIs
Web Applications
Microservices
Legacy workloads
Fast time to market with frictionless deployment anywhere
- Wallarm is the only solution that provide protection for the whole application portfolio including APIs, applications, microservices
- API Security vendors work only in cloud environments with a copy of the traffic. WAAP online works inline (edge)
- Wallarm provides fast deployment anywhere: cloud-native / K8s, multi-cloud, edge, or on-prem. Integrates with the DevOps/IaaC tech stack
Wallarm
WAAP Vendors
Inline / agent-based
Out-of-band / agentless
Edge (CDN or hosted cloud)
Cloud-Native, K8s, Auto-Scaling
Private/legacy infrastructure
Multi-cloud support
Complete protection without blindspots
- Wallarm provides real-time detection + mitigation for both apps and APIs (full protocol support)
- API security vendors provide detection only and require 3rd party (WAF or API Gateway) to provide limited mitigation
- WAAP vendors provide basic protection for APIs (no OWASP API Security Top-10)
Wallarm
WAAP Vendors
OWASP Top 10 attacks - WAAP
OWASP Top 10 API Security
DDoS Protection
Bot Mitigation for apps
Bot Mitigation for APIs
API Abuse Prevention
Full API protocol support (graphQL, gRPC, WebSocket, REST)
Real-time mitigation w/o 3rd party tools
API Leaks prevention
Better team efficiency with high accuracy and no noise
- Wallarm provides protection for APIs from the second it's deployed (no specs are required)
- Wallarm provides high accuracy (both false positives and false negatives)
Wallarm
WAAP Vendors
No specs / configuration required
0-day prevention / awareness
High accuracy (low false positives)
24/7 SOC
Get control over managed and unmanaged APIs with robust posture management
- Wallarm and pure API Security vendors provide rich API discovery capabilities
- Only some of the WAAP vendors have limited API Discovery and Risk Scoring capabilities
Wallarm
WAAP Vendors
API Discovery
Risk Scoring (Personalized)
Change Detection
Usage Analysis
Reduce risks by active testing pre-prod and in prod
- Wallarm API testing capabilities both in production (Active Threat Verification) and in testing (FAST)
- Some of the API Security vendors have started to introduce Security Testing capabilities
Wallarm
WAAP Vendors
Active testing of public APIs
API Testing in developer pipeline (CI/CD)
Keep control over your data with the privacy first approach
- All the traffic inspection is handled within the customer environment
Wallarm
WAAP Vendors
Data analyzed on customer premises
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