Akamai announces App & API Protector Hybrid

Akamai Technologies has introduced App & API Protector Hybrid. Users can now expand the critical Web Application Firewall (WAF) capabilities of Akamai’s Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) while consistently securing applications and APIs for multi-cloud, on-premises, and CDN-agnostic environments.

Security leaders are increasingly tasked with protecting dispersed applications while balancing efficiency, visibility, and cost-effectiveness. With this in mind, organizations can use App & API Protector Hybrid to:

• Standardize WAF protections across multiple environments—ensuring a single source of truth for policy enforcement.
• Reduce operational overhead by consolidating security management across Edge and non-Edge environments.
• Accelerate cloud transformation without sacrificing security—allowing DevOps teams to deploy seamlessly and securely across multi-cloud and on-prem environments.

Engineered to deliver enhanced protection, App & API Protector Hybrid safeguards applications, APIs, microservices and workloads against a range of sophisticated threats while delivering resilience, scalability, and simplified security management. The launch furthers Akamai’s vision of enabling organizations to secure their applications, data, and APIs consistently—across every environment.

“Akamai’s App & API Protector Hybrid extends Akamai’s leading WAAP security with the ability to defend distributed applications, APIs and microservices,” said Rupesh Chokshi, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Application Security, Akamai. “As customer ecosystems are increasingly spread across on-premises, multi-cloud, and on-and-off-CDN environments, this solution simplifies security for modern organizations.”