NSFOCUS WAF Selected in the 2025 Gartner® Market Guide for Cloud Web Application and API Protection

Santa Clara, Calif. May 14, 2025 – Recently, Gartner released the “Market Guide for Cloud Web Application and API Protection”[1], and NSFOCUS was selected as a Representative Vendor with its innovative WAAP solution. We believe this recognition reflects the technical accumulation and practical capabilities of NSFOCUS WAF in the field of cloud native security protection. Its core capabilities are based on “full-stack defense, intelligent collaboration, and multi-cloud adaptation”, providing solid guarantees for the digital transformation of global enterprises.

Full Stack Protection to Resist New Threats

NSFOCUS WAF integrates traditional WAF capabilities, BOT protection, API security and DDoS mitigation capabilities to build an integrated protection system. Accurately identify OWASP TOP 10 attacks and 0day vulnerabilities through a six-in-one detection engine (rules, semantic analysis, threat intelligence, self-learning, smart patches). For API abuse and BOT automation attacks (such as credential stuffing, crawlers), its intelligent traffic analysis engine can dynamically block malicious behavior and reduce business fraud losses.

Adaptive to Cloud-native Ecosystem with Agile Architecture

NSFOCUS WAF fully supports the cloud-native ecosystem. Through containerized deployment, it adapts to K8S/Ingress and Envoy service grid architecture, realizes intelligent protection in a lightweight and non-perceptual way, and quickly locates attack risks. In addition, it supports containerized rapid expansion, and the performance is improved by 100% compared with traditional solutions to meet the needs of high-concurrency scenarios.

Intelligent Bot Management

NSFOCUS WAF integrates BOT defense capabilities, combines multi-dimensional behavioral feature modeling with contextual association verification, accurately distinguishes legal automation tools from anthropomorphic malicious BOT, effectively defends against high-risk attacks such as automated database stuffing and data crawling to eliminate malicious behaviors.

Linked APISec for Multi-dimensional Collaborative Defense

The deep linkage between NSFOCUS WAF and APISec enables API security visibility and threat analysis based on full traffic analysis, accurately identifying the API attack surface; At the same time, relying on the threat operation capability of APISec, WAF precise blocking is implemented for source IPs confirmed to be at risk, forming a closed-loop response mechanism of “monitoring-analysis-disposal”, effectively improving the accuracy and disposal efficiency of API security protection, and achieving the dual goals of attack surface convergence and rapid threat stop loss.

LLM Security Protection to Ensure Business Compliance Operation

NSFOCUS WAF integrates LLM protection capabilities. At the system security level, relying on the rule base, it provides open source component vulnerability detection and defense capabilities for large model application systems, which can effectively prevent attackers from using WEB-related vulnerabilities to launch attacks on large models. In terms of content security, through the deep integration of AI large model algorithm engine and security corpus, it detects and intercepts malicious prompt word attacks implanted in HTTP requests in real time. Realize active content security defense for large model applications; In terms of API protection, it can automatically discover API assets and identify abnormal access behaviors.

To us, this selection by the “Market Guide for Cloud Web Application and API Protection” reflects that NSFOCUS’s continued investment in the WAAP field and its product capabilities have been professionally recognized. NSFOCUS will continue to deepen its efforts in cloud-native security, boost the evolution of security systems with technological innovation, help enterprises build more flexible and intelligent protection capabilities, provide full-link guarantees for business security in the digital age, and actively respond to escalating security challenges.

About NSFOCUS

NSFOCUS, a pioneering leader in cybersecurity, is dedicated to safeguarding telecommunications, Internet service providers, hosting providers, and enterprises from sophisticated cyberattacks.

Founded in 2000, NSFOCUS operates globally with over 4000 employees at two headquarters in Beijing, China, and Santa Clara, CA, USA, and over 50 offices worldwide. It has a proven track record of protecting over 25% of the Fortune Global 500 companies, including four of the five largest banks and six of the world’s top ten telecommunications companies.

Leveraging technical prowess and innovation, NSFOCUS delivers a comprehensive suite of security solutions, including the Intelligent Security Operations Platform (ISOP) for modern SOC, DDoS Protection, Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) Service and Web Application and API Protection (WAAP). All the solutions and services are augmented by the Security Large Language Model (SecLLM), ML, patented algorithms and other cutting-edge research achievements developed by NSFOCUS.

Reference

[1] Gartner, Market Guide for Cloud Web Application and API Protection, 14 April 2025

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