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WAF

Score 20.2 / 100 22 providers 11 APIs Search apis.io →
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Business capabilities this tag reaches
Cybersecurity Management 1
Variants seen in the corpus: WAFwaf

Providers using this tag (22)

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

Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Amazon WAFBot ManagementDdos ProtectionSecurity1 API58.5OracleCloudDatabaseEnterpriseInfrastructure161 APIs56.3
Developing 9 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
F5 NetworksAPI GatewayApplication DeliveryAutomationEdge Computing1 API53.2Azure NetworkingAzureCloudInfrastructureMicrosoft2 APIs50.7Traefik LabsAI GatewayAPI GatewayAPI ManagementDeveloper Portal1 API48.3Google Cloud ArmorDDoS ProtectionFirewallGoogle CloudSecurity1 API46.5WallarmAPI SecuritySecurity TestingCybersecurity1 API42.7ImpervaSecurityCybersecurityDDoS Protection2 APIs42.0ArcjetSecurityRate LimitingBot Detection1 API40.6Bunny.netCDNEdgeVideoStorage1 API40.3CloudGuardCheck PointCNAPPCloud SecurityCompliance1 API39.8
Thin 8 Limited public surface area
Azure Front DoorCDNEdgeGlobal RoutingLoad Balancing2 APIs37.8Check PointCloud SecurityCybersecurityEndpoint SecurityFirewall5 APIs37.1Azure Application GatewayLayer 7Load BalancingReverse Proxy2 APIs36.5QuantCDNCDNEdgeStatic HostingJamstack1 API35.8SafeLineProxySecurityOpen-Source1 API34.4Chaitin TechSecurityWeb Application FirewallCybersecurity6 APIs33.4F5ApplicationSecurityLoad BalancingAPI Gateway1 API33.1AWS WAFSecurityWeb Application FirewallDDoS ProtectionBot Management1 API32.2
Emerging 3 Early or largely undocumented
Impart SecurityCompanySecurityAPI SecurityRuntime Protection1 API22.6ChinaCache (EdgeNext)CompanyCDNContent Delivery NetworkEdge Computing1 API17.8Signal SciencesCompanySecurityWeb Application Firewall1 API11.7

APIs with this tag (11)

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 →

Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
OCI Web Application Firewall APIREST APIs for managing web application firewall policies that protect applications from malicious and unwan...56.3Oracle Waf APIThe waf API from Oracle — 15 operation(s) for waf.56.3
Developing 5 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
F5 Essential App Protect APIAPI for managing F5's application security services including WAF policies, bot defense, and API protection.53.2Azure Web Application Firewall APICloud-native web application firewall service that provides centralized protection for web applications fro...50.7Traefik Hub API GatewayCommercial Kubernetes-native API gateway built on Traefik Proxy. Adds a native WAF (claimed 23x faster than...48.3Bunny.net Shield APISecurity and WAF configuration API for Bunny Shield - managed rules, custom rules, bot detection, rate-limi...40.3CloudGuard WAF APICloudGuard WAF (CloudGuard AppSec) protects web applications and APIs with contextual machine-learning-base...39.8
Thin 3 Limited public surface area
Check Point CloudGuard WAF APIManagement API for the CloudGuard WAF cloud-native web application and API protection product.37.1SafeLine MCP ServerSafeLine provides two MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server implementations for AI-assisted WAF management: a...34.4AWS WAFV2 APIREST API for creating and managing web ACLs, rule groups, IP sets, regex pattern sets, and logging configur...32.2
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented
Signal Sciences Core APIThe Signal Sciences Core API (now the Fastly Next-Gen WAF control-plane API) is a REST API served at https:...11.7

Score breakdown

Frequency
41.9
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.6
spread across providers
Quality lift
44.2
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
4.8
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

DDoS Protection 7 co-occurrences Web Application Firewall 6 co-occurrences API Security 6 co-occurrences CDN 5 co-occurrences API Gateway 5 co-occurrences Kubernetes 5 co-occurrences Security 15 co-occurrences

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Api tag11
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