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Next Generation WAF: Delivering Acceleration and Evolved Protection

Modern websites require both acceleration and protection to ensure a seamless and secure user experience. The effectiveness of these capabilities is evaluated using the following key metrics that reflect how well the system performs in handling traffic, mitigating threats, and maintaining performance under various conditions:

  • Accuracy: Precision in distinguishing malicious traffic from legitimate requests.
  • Ease & Cost Savings: Operational simplicity and reduced resource overhead.
  • Adaptiveness: Dynamic adjustment to evolving threats and traffic patterns.
  • Responsiveness: Speed of reaction to attacks and configuration changes.
  • API Protection: Coverage against API abuse, injection, and misuse.
  • Bot Management: Mitigation of automated traffic via advanced detection.
  • DDoS Mitigation: Real-time defense against volumetric and application-layer attacks. MaxiSafe-Octagon-Diagram

The above provides a comparative overview of the evolution of website acceleration and protection through the progressive implementation of traditional WAF, AI-WAF, WAAP, and CDN. Each stage reflects incremental advancements in key capabilities - including accuracy, adaptiveness, responsiveness, API protection, bot management, DDoS mitigation, and operational efficiency - toward achieving a comprehensive balance between web application security and performance optimisation.

  • Traditional WAF provides baseline security with medium accuracy in threat detection. However, it lacks adaptability to evolving attack patterns, offers limited responsiveness to new threats, and incurs higher operational costs due to manual rule management. Support for DDoS mitigation, API protection, and bot management is minimal or absent.

  • AI-WAF enhances detection accuracy and responsiveness by leveraging machine learning models. It adapts better to dynamic traffic behaviors and reduces the need for manual tuning, improving operational efficiency. Despite these advantages, it does not offer protection for APIs or advanced bot management capabilities.

  • WAAP (Web Application and API Protection) builds on AI-WAF by incorporating dedicated mechanisms for API security and bot mitigation. It delivers high accuracy and real-time responsiveness, with moderate adaptability and operational efficiency. DDoS mitigation remains limited without external integration.

  • CDN focuses on accelerating content delivery and reducing latency, offering high ease of deployment and significant cost savings. It provides mid-to-high-level DDoS mitigation by filtering malicious traffic at distributed edge nodes.

MaxiSafe integrates WAAP and CDN into a unified Secure Content Delivery Network solution. It combines the adaptive threat detection and application-layer protections of WAAP with the performance optimisation and edge-based mitigation capabilities of CDN. This results in a high-accuracy, responsive, and cost-efficient platform that offers full-spectrum protection - covering API endpoints, bot traffic, and large-scale DDoS attacks - while ensuring fast and reliable content delivery.