As APIs become the backbone of modern digital services, security teams are struggling to keep pace with their growing complexity — and attackers are exploiting the gaps.
Radware has launched its new API Security Service recently, a unified platform designed to protect APIs throughout their entire lifecycle, combining discovery, posture management, business logic protection, and runtime defence in a single solution.
The move comes as enterprises accelerate cloud adoption and digital transformation, making APIs mission-critical infrastructure. Yet many organisations still rely on fragmented tools that generate large volumes of theoretical alerts without reflecting real risk. Shadow APIs and third-party integrations often go undetected, while business logic attacks can bypass traditional security controls entirely.
Radware says its new service takes a different approach by analysing live production traffic to surface actual exposure — rather than potential vulnerabilities — giving security teams a real-time view of what attackers are actively targeting.
“APIs are dynamic, business-critical, and increasingly targeted — but most security approaches are still static,” said Haim Zelikovsky, vice president of cloud security business at Radware. “By continuously analysing real traffic, organisations can identify real risk, automatically block real attacks, and dramatically reduce noise while shortening response times.”
The platform delivers runtime protection against the OWASP Top 10 API Security Risks, including advanced Layer 7 and HTTPS DDoS attacks, while also mapping API workflows to detect sophisticated business logic abuse.
Key capabilities include continuous API discovery — covering shadow and third-party APIs — runtime posture management based on attacker behaviour, and AI-driven detection designed to minimise false positives. Radware says the service also supports closer collaboration between development, security, and DevSecOps teams through a single management portal.
With regulatory pressure increasing globally and APIs powering everything from customer apps to backend systems, Radware positions the new service as a way for enterprises to move beyond compliance checklists toward measurable risk reduction.
The Radware API Security Service is available now as both a standalone offering and as part of the company’s broader application security portfolio.