Managed WAF, DDoS & API Protection for ISVs
Offload WAF, DDoS and API protection to our 24/7 team - plus the CDN tuning to keep everything fast - so your developers can focus on shipping product.
One managed edge layer: WAF, DDoS, and API protection, plus the caching to keep it fast - tuned and monitored 24/7.
Managed DDoS shielding & bot defence for ISVs
Offload DDoS mitigation, bot management, and rate-limiting to our managed WAF so your engineers don’t have to tune rules or chase false positives. We deploy global scrubbing, behavioural bot detection, and per-tenant throttling to keep sign-up, checkout, and API flows online during traffic spikes or attacks.
CDN acceleration & smart caching for software vendors
We design and run your CDN, edge caching, and image optimisation so your teams don’t need to manage TTLs, cache keys, or purge logic. Dynamic content stays fresh, static assets fly from the edge, and release cycles speed up without the risk of stale content or broken headers.
Managed Web Application & API Shielding for Software Vendors
We write and maintain WAF rulesets for OWASP, zero-day signatures, and API schema validation so your developers don’t have to. We handle versioning, tuning, and 24/7 monitoring, protecting both monoliths and microservices while you focus on feature delivery.
WAF, DDoS, bot and API protection - increasingly known as WAAP
Increasingly, analysts' group WAF, DDoS protection, bot management, and API security together under one umbrella term: WAAP (Web Application and API Protection). If you're evaluating vendors using that term, this is the same set of capabilities we provide - just delivered as an outsourced, fully managed service rather than a self-serve platform you configure yourself.
Gartner defines WAAP as the evolution of the traditional WAF market, extending core WAF protection to cover the DDoS, bot, and API threats that weren't part of the original web application firewall category. That's exactly the ground this page covers: WAF rules and rulesets, DDoS shielding, behavioural bot detection, and API schema validation - running as one managed edge layer.
We don't badge this as a separate "WAAP product" - it's the same managed service, tuned and monitored by our team. Whether you call it managed WAF, WAAP, or web application and API protection, the outcome for your ISV is the same: fewer false positives, less noise for your developers, and continuous protection for the endpoints your customers and partners actually use.
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Managed WAF, DDoS & API FAQs for ISVs
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It offloads rule writing, bot tuning, DDoS mitigation, and 24/7 monitoring to a specialist team. You get continuous protection for web and API endpoints without your developers maintaining signatures, rate limits, or attack playbooks.
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WAAP (Web Application and API Protection) is the term analysts use for the combination of WAF, DDoS protection, bot management, and API security delivered together as one layer. A traditional WAF covers the first of those; WAAP is the broader category this page's service already sits in — we just deliver it as a managed service rather than a labelled "WAAP product."
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It's the same service. We don't sell a separately branded WAAP product — the WAF, DDoS, bot, and API protection described on this page is the full set of capabilities the WAAP category describes, managed and tuned by our team.
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We combine global scrubbing, behavioural bot detection, and per-tenant rate limiting. Bad traffic is filtered before it hits your origin, while good users and search crawlers are allowed through. We tune rules to reduce false positives for your specific app flows.
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Yes. We configure CDN, cache keys, TTLs, and image optimisation so your edge stays fast and fresh. That means faster page loads, lower origin load, and fewer cache-related incidents during releases.
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We validate against OpenAPI/JSON schemas, enforce positive security models, and block OWASP API threats. We also monitor anomalies in request patterns and auth failures, then tune rules to protect both legacy APIs and new microservices.
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We typically stand up protection in days: point DNS/CNAME to our edge, baseline traffic, deploy standard WAF rules, then iterate bot, DDoS, CDN, and API policies with your team. Full tuning usually completes in the first 2–4 weeks.