niche · -0.7 market domain

WAF

Score 19.4 / 100 16 providers +4 via APIs 12 APIs Search apis.io →
Workflows using this tag
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Business capabilities this tag reaches
Cybersecurity Management 2

Providers using this tag (16)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
F5ApplicationSecurityLoad BalancingAPI Gateway8 APIs66.6
Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Traefik LabsAI GatewayAPI GatewayAPI ManagementDeveloper Portal1 API58.2
Developing 4 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Google Cloud ArmorDDoS ProtectionFirewallGoogle CloudSecurity1 API46.3QuantCDNCDNEdgeStatic HostingJAMstack1 API43.4WallarmAPI SecuritySecurity TestingCybersecurity1 API40.1ImpervaSecurityCybersecurityDDoS Protection2 APIs39.7
Thin 7 Limited public surface area
Bunny.netCDNEdgeVideoStorage1 API38.9Azure Application GatewayLayer-7Load BalancingReverse Proxy2 APIs38.6Azure Front DoorCDNEdgeGlobal RoutingLoad Balancing2 APIs38.3ArcjetSecurityRate LimitingBot Detection1 API37.5Check PointCloud SecurityCybersecurityEndpoint SecurityFirewall5 APIs35.9Chaitin TechSecurityWeb Application FirewallCybersecurity6 APIs34.4SafeLineProxySecurityOpen Source1 API32.4
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented
Impart SecurityCompanySecurityAPI SecurityRuntime Protection1 API23.8ChinaCache (EdgeNext)CompanyCDNEdge ComputingCloud Security1 API17.2
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface
Signal SciencesCompanySecurityWeb Application Firewall1 API10.9

APIs with this tag (12)

Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →

Exemplar 3 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
OCI Web Application Firewall APIREST APIs for managing web application firewall policies that protect applications from malicious and unwan...68.4Oracle Waf APIThe waf API from Oracle — 15 operation(s) for waf.68.4F5 Essential App Protect APIAPI for managing F5's application security services including WAF policies, bot defense, and API protection.66.6
Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Azure Web Application Firewall APICloud-native web application firewall service that provides centralized protection for web applications fro...62.6Traefik Hub API GatewayCommercial Kubernetes-native API gateway built on Traefik Proxy. Adds a native WAF (claimed 23x faster than...58.2
Developing 3 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
CloudGuard WAF APICloudGuard WAF (formerly CloudGuard AppSec) protects web applications and APIs with contextual machine-lear...52.4CloudGuard Waf APIWAF Protection52.4AWS WAFV2 APIREST API for creating and managing web ACLs, rule groups, IP sets, regex pattern sets, and logging configur...41.3
Thin 3 Limited public surface area
Bunny.net Shield APISecurity and WAF configuration API for Bunny Shield - managed rules, custom rules, bot detection, rate-limi...38.9Check Point CloudGuard WAF APIManagement API for the CloudGuard WAF cloud-native web application and API protection product.35.9SafeLine MCP ServerSafeLine provides two MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server implementations for AI-assisted WAF management: a...32.4
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface
Signal Sciences Core APIThe Signal Sciences Core API (now the Fastly Next-Gen WAF control-plane API) is a REST API served at https:...10.9

Companies reaching this through an API (4)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “WAF” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

AWS WAF Azure Networking Services CloudGuard Oracle

Score breakdown

Frequency
39.5
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.4
spread across providers
Quality lift
46.1
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
1.5
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

DDoS Protection 6 co-occurrences Web Application Firewall 5 co-occurrences API Security 6 co-occurrences CDN 5 co-occurrences Security 13 co-occurrences

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Api tag12
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