ThreatX – Blocking attacks in real-time with API and application protection

As the complexities of web development have increased and more businesses are looking to leverage their online presence, Application Programming Interfaces have become a commonly used tool. An API acts as an intermediary between different software applications, allowing developers to streamline processes and increase efficiency when building websites. This blog post will discuss how they can help you advance your projects with ease. APIs have become essential tools when it comes to web development. By utilizing them, developers are able to increase efficiency, boost customization and integrate with third-party services. They also provide added capabilities that allow users to access backend functionality while on the go. Additionally, marketing automation is made possible using APIs, enabling developers to quickly and easily create powerful campaigns. It’s clear that APIs play an integral role in web development and their use will undoubtedly continue to be widespread in the future. Whether you’re aiming to develop a robust mobile application or refine your marketing strategies, the right set of APIs can help make all the difference.

ThreatX is one such company that leverages robust API protection platform solutions, making the world safer by protecting APIs from all threats, including DDoS attempts, BOT attacks, API abuse, exploitations of known vulnerabilities, and zero-day attacks. ThreatX’s attacker-centric behavioral analytics capability secures APIs from advanced security threats across cloud, on-prem and hybrid environments. The company's multi-layered detection capabilities accurately identify malicious actors and dynamically initiate defensive action to protect known, rogue and zombie APIs. In addition, their Managed Services combine threat hunting with access to experts 24×7, significantly reducing the direct operational costs and maintenance for enterprises. With the advanced API protection platform, managed services and threat research, ThreatX effectively and efficiently protects APIs for companies in every industry across the globe.

API Protection Simplified

Cloud Native Web Application Firewall: ThreatX’s Next-Gen and Cloud Native WAF brings together a variety of protections to address a wide variety of threats and risks including traditional exploits, bots, API-specific risks, and DDoS attacks. ThreatX builds a dynamic profile of every threat actor as they move through the kill chain across multiple attack types, over multiple toolchain variants, over changing IP addresses, over long timescales. They notice these shifting attack modes, see them for what they are, and stop attacks that disjointed solutions in the industry misses. ThreatX brings an API-native approach to security that addresses the unique risks, challenges, and threats facing APIs today. ThreatX goes far beyond signatures and anomaly detection to identify and track malicious entities even as traits such as IP addresses and user agents change. This lets us track and compile a complete picture of an entity’s risk so that enforcement is both highly accurate and laser-focused on the threats that matter the most.

Bot Management: The combination of bot detection techniques and application intensity analysis, means ThreatX can reveal a wide range of automated attacks such as ATO, credential stuffing, reputation attacks and more. Just as importantly, it can address these threats without introducing additional user friction with CAPTCHAs and other mechanisms. However, ThreatX can easily integrate with these tools as well to support any security model. ThreatX provides integrated DDoS protection for applications, network, and enterprise level traffic. Defending organizations from the many forms of modern DDoS attacks is one of the key capabilities of their solution.

Entity Fingerprinting, Tracking and Risk Attribution: ThreatX combines a wide variety of proprietary techniques to reliably identify attacking entities even as they change IP addresses or user agents. This includes but is not limited to TLS fingerprinting and analytical profiling of entity traits and behaviors. ThreatX then continuously monitors all entity behaviors and correlates all behaviors over time into a unified risk score. This allows security teams to see coordinated attacks and to identify and stop “low and slow” attacks that would normally fly under the radar. ThreatX can actively engage entities to collect additional insights or take a variety of protective responses. This can include putting the entity on a watch list, active interrogation, tarpitting, blocking, any whitelisting or blacklisting. ThreatX automatically learns normal application behaviors and traits to establish baselines for the application. This can allow staff to identify any anomalous behavior which could be an early sign of attack.

Gene Fay | Chief Executive Officer

Gene has a lengthy track record as an executive at technology companies, including COO at White Ops, General Manager at Resilient Systems (acquired by IBM), and VP of Worldwide Sales and Global Alliances of Network Intelligence (acquired by EMC and integrated into RSA). Gene has extensive experience building high-impact teams at early-stage startups in storage, virtualization, and cybersecurity. He has specific expertise in go-to-market strategies, marketing, customer success, and channel development. Gene holds an MBA from Northeastern University, where he guest lectures on topics such as product management, marketing, and sales.

“At ThreatX, we are helping teams at companies around the globe protect more of their infrastructure from more threats, with less work.”