Radware Application Delivery & WAF solution

Application Delivery & WAF solutions are becoming a critical foundation for enterprises that need to ensure performance, availability, and security for applications. When applications are deployed across multiple environments such as data centers, private cloud, public cloud, and multi-cloud, enterprises need a solution that both delivers applications efficiently and protects applications from modern threats.

Radware's Application Delivery & WAF solution helps enterprises consolidate load balancing, application performance optimization, and application security capabilities within a unified architecture. The solution combines Radware Alteon ADC platform, Alteon Protect, WAF, API Security, Bot Protection, DDoS Layer 7 Protection, cloud scalability, and AI-enhanced operations.

With this approach, enterprises can maintain stable user experience, ensure application SLA and minimize security risks. This is a suitable choice for organizations operating critical applications in on-premise, hybrid cloud or multi-cloud environments.

What is Application Delivery & WAF solution?

Application Delivery & WAF solution is a combination of application delivery and application security. The goal is to ensure applications always operate stably, with high performance, and are protected against cyberattacks.

For application delivery, the solution helps load balancing, traffic optimization, improved response speed and increased availability. For security, the solution helps protect web applications, APIs and digital services against risks such as vulnerability exploitation, malicious bots, automated fraud and DDoS Layer 7 attacks.

In Radware's ecosystem, the core platform for Application Delivery & WAF Solution is Radware Alteon and Alteon Protect. This is an Application Delivery Controller platform that ensures performance, availability and application protection across various deployment models.

The solution can be deployed in multiple forms:

• Hardware devices.
• Virtual appliance.
• Appliance trên cloud.
• Mô hình cloud-native.
• Hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

The important point is that Radware provides a consistent feature set across deployment environments. This helps enterprises manage policies more consistently and reduce operational complexity.

Why do businesses need Application Delivery & WAF solutions?

Applications are becoming the center of digital transformation. Most business operations today depend on web applications, APIs, service gateways, online transaction systems, and digital platforms.

However, modern applications no longer reside in a single environment. Many enterprises are operating applications across data centers, private cloud, public cloud, and various cloud platforms. This increases complexity in management, security, and performance assurance.

According to the solution documentation, organizations need an application delivery and security solution that can support multi-cloud deployment. The solution needs to extend cloud protection capabilities without rerouting traffic or cloud-based SSL termination. At the same time, the solution also needs to help DevOps and NetSecOps teams reduce troubleshooting time.

Modern enterprises often face 5 major challenges:

Complexity of hybrid environment

Many enterprises operate on multiple different cloud platforms. Each platform has its own control mechanisms, policies and tools.

This makes security management complex. Technical teams struggle to maintain consistent policies across the entire environment.

Security expertise shortage

Modern application security is not just traditional WAF. Enterprises also need API security, bot protection, fraud prevention, and Layer 7 DDoS protection.

Maintaining deep expertise across multiple domains is a major challenge. Especially for organizations with limited security teams.

Increasingly sophisticated attacks

Application attacks are increasingly difficult to detect. Advanced bots, zero-day API exploits, and Layer 7 Web DDoS attacks can bypass traditional defense systems.

Enterprises need behavior-based detection capabilities, real-time analysis, and the ability to scale protection when traffic surges.

Operational burden

Managing and fine-tuning policies across multiple environments is time-consuming. Configuration errors can also create security vulnerabilities.

An effective Application Delivery & WAF solution needs to help automate operations, reduce false positives, and increase centralized observability.

Scalability limitations

Traditional appliances may face limitations when traffic surges. Cloud-native workloads also require more flexible scalability.

Enterprises need an architecture that can combine on-premise performance with cloud scalability.

Radware Alteon – Platform for Application Delivery & WAF Solutions

Radware is a global technology company established in 1997, headquartered in Israel. The company specializes in providing cybersecurity solutions and application performance optimization for enterprises, service providers and government organizations.

Radware's core capabilities include:

• Application Security.
• DDoS Protection.
• Web Application Firewall.
• API Security.
• Cloud Application Protection.
• AI Security.

In application delivery and security, Radware Alteon is an ADC platform that ensures performance, availability, and security for applications. Alteon provides advanced application delivery services, supporting programmability, orchestration, and analytics.

As a result, enterprises can proactively manage systems, ensure application SLA and enhance security. The solution also supports providing ADC services for users without deep technical expertise.

Radware Alteon Protect in Application Delivery & WAF Solution

When applications span multiple environments, enterprises need consistent protection. Traditional on-premise solutions often create operational burden. They also require deep expertise and may lack consistency across deployment environments.

Meanwhile, disparate solutions from multiple vendors can fragment observability. This makes the response process to threats and operational incidents slower.

Radware Alteon Protect redefines the approach to application protection. The solution combines ADC-based defense mechanisms with enhanced cloud security services.

This approach delivers three key values:

• On-premise performance.
• Cloud scalability.
• AI intelligence supports operations and security.

As a result, Radware provides unified distribution, observation and protection capabilities. Applications can be protected whether running in data centers or on cloud.

Radware's Application Delivery & WAF Solution Architecture

Radware's Application Delivery & WAF solution consolidates ADC enforcement and performance capabilities with application security at cloud scale. This architecture helps enterprises achieve high performance, low latency, and scalable protection.

Alteon Protect seamlessly integrates three main components:

• Device-level protection mechanism.
• Radware's cloud application security service.
• Global threat intelligence sources.

Unified protection across all environments

The solution supports application protection in various environments:

• On-premise.
• Private cloud.
• Public cloud.
• Hybrid cloud.
• Multi-cloud.

Cloud-based WAAP helps complement on-device security. Additional capabilities include advanced bot management, API discovery, and web DDoS protection.

Notably, the solution can analyze and inspect cloud traffic without sharing SSL keys, without routing changes and without traffic redirection.

Flexible ADC Foundation

Radware Alteon can be deployed as dedicated hardware appliances, virtual appliances, or cloud-native. All run on the same code base.

This helps enterprises maintain a consistent feature set. Migration between on-premise and multi-cloud is also more flexible.

Global Elastic Licensing

Global Elastic Licensing, or GEL, enables flexible resource usage across devices, sites, and cloud.

This model helps enterprises scale ADC and AppSec resources according to demand. Organizations can better adapt to traffic changes, application growth, and new deployment requirements.

Application security enhanced by Cloud and AI

Radware adds cloud-scale application protection services to extend security capabilities on devices.

Key features include:

• WAF.
• API Security.
• Bot Protection.
• Fraud Protection.
• DDoS Layer 7 Mitigation.
• Cloud sideband inspection.
• Global threat intelligence.

Cloud scalability helps overcome hardware limitations. Enterprises can increase protection capacity without investing in new equipment.

AI-Augmented Operations

Radware applies AI to enhance operations. The solution supports automatic observation, root cause analysis, anomaly detection, prediction and SLA assurance.

This helps operations teams handle incidents faster. Application uptime is also improved.

Key features of Application Delivery & WAF Solution

Comprehensive, multi-layered application protection

Radware's Application Delivery & WAF solution provides a unified protection architecture. The same code base and feature set can be deployed on-premise, private cloud, and public cloud.

Solution that helps protect against risks in OWASP Top 10 and API Top 10. These are critical risk groups for modern web applications and APIs.

In addition, the solution also supports real-time detection and blocking of malicious IPs. This mechanism is based on AI-powered threat analysis.

Radware also provides a unified authentication gateway. The gateway supports SSO and MFA for centralized access. This helps enhance control application access.

WAF protects web applications

WAF is a critical component in the Application Delivery & WAF solution. WAF helps detect and prevent exploitation of web application vulnerabilities.

Common risks include injection, cross-site scripting, application logic vulnerability exploitation, unauthorized access, and application-layer attacks.

With Radware, WAF is not just a standalone protection layer. WAF is combined with ADC, API Security, Bot Protection, DDoS Protection and threat intelligence. As a result, enterprises gain more multi-layered protection capabilities.

API Security

APIs are critical components in modern applications. However, APIs are also attractive attack surfaces.

Radware supports API security by dynamically discovering, classifying, and protecting APIs. The solution uses AI-based analysis to support risk identification.

This helps enterprises better protect systems with multiple internal APIs, partner APIs and customer-facing APIs.

Bot and fraud prevention

Advanced bots can cause many risks. They can scrape data, attempt account takeover, abuse systems or generate fake traffic.

Radware's Application Delivery & WAF solution supports AI behavioral-based bot and fraud prevention. The solution helps distinguish legitimate user behavior from malicious automated behavior.

As a result, enterprises can reduce the risk of account takeover, scraping, system abuse and automated fraud.

Web Layer 7 DDoS Protection

Layer 7 DDoS attacks are a major challenge for web applications. This type of attack typically targets the application layer. It can overload resources but is harder to detect than traditional volumetric attacks.

Radware Alteon Protect provides Web DDoS protection capabilities by combining low-latency inline enforcement, behavioral analysis, and flexible cloud-based mitigation.

The solution can block volumetric HTTP/S attacks and sophisticated Layer 7 DDoS without significantly increasing latency. Enterprises also do not need to redirect traffic to the cloud or expose SSL keys.

Seamless performance and scalability

Radware supports auto-scaling to ensure stable application delivery across different workloads. When demand increases, the cloud security platform can scale protection capacity without additional hardware investment.

Global Elastic Licensing helps scale ADC and AppSec resources on demand. This suits enterprises with fluctuating traffic, multiple sites, or multiple applications.

Unified dashboard provides end-to-end visibility across the entire hybrid infrastructure. Operations teams can track performance and security status more easily.

Automated operations and expert security

Radware supports security policies with self-learning and continuous adaptation capabilities based on AI.

In addition, the Radware Emergency Response Team can provide 24/7 monitoring support, proactive incident response and attack mitigation.

The solution also supports automated onboarding, configuration and optimization. Thanks to that, enterprises can reduce false positives, reduce operational load and optimize security effectiveness.

How Radware Alteon Protect works

Radware's Application Delivery & WAF solution operates on a hybrid model between on-premise protection and cloud protection.

On-device protection

ADC Alteon applies Layer 4 to Layer 7 security policies using an inline mechanism. Policy enforcement occurs with very low latency.

This approach helps enterprises ensure application performance. At the same time, organizations maintain security control capabilities at the execution point close to the application.

Cloud protection

A small traffic sample is mirrored and sent to Radware's cloud-based WAAP platform. There, the system analyzes and returns enforcement decisions in real time.

According to the solution documentation, this traffic pattern is under 10KB in size. The sideband approach enables cloud-based security analysis without redirecting traffic, without sharing SSL keys and without changing routing.

Enforce policies on ADC

Policy enforcement always occurs on the ADC. This helps ensure low latency and does not depend entirely on the cloud.

This is a critical differentiator. Enterprises can leverage cloud security intelligence while maintaining performance and control at their own infrastructure.

Integrated telemetry

All events are fed into a unified monitoring system using AI. This system supports knowledge base development, ensures SLA and enables more effective incident analysis.

Thanks to integrated telemetry, operations teams can better understand application status, detect anomalies and resolve incidents faster.

Use cases for deploying Application Delivery & WAF Solution

Unified hybrid and multi-cloud

Enterprises can use Radware to provide unified application delivery and protection capabilities across cloud and on-premise data center.

This is suitable for organizations transitioning to hybrid cloud while still needing to maintain existing systems.

Extending beyond traditional WAF

Enterprises can seamlessly migrate to Alteon Protect. Organizations can expand protection through subscription model or managed service without replacing existing ADC infrastructure.

This is a suitable approach for enterprises wanting to upgrade security without changing their entire existing architecture.

API-based application security

Radware supports dynamic API discovery, classification, and protection. This is particularly suitable for organizations with many APIs serving mobile apps, web apps, partners, or internal systems.

Web Layer 7 DDoS Protection

The solution helps prevent Layer 7 DDoS with AI. When needed, the cloud can be used to expand protection capacity beyond device limits.

This use case is suitable for banking, finance, e-commerce, telecommunications, public service portals, and high-traffic systems.

Global Threat Intelligence

Enterprises can leverage threat intelligence sources from Radware Cloud. This helps detect and prevent attacks earlier.

Bot and fraud prevention

The solution helps prevent scraping, account takeover, and system abuse. AI-based behavioral protection mechanisms help better identify advanced bots.

Multi-tenant và MSSP

Radware supports multi-tenant and MSSP models. Elastic licensing helps service providers scale flexibly according to customer needs.

Benefits of Radware Application Delivery & WAF Solution

Ensure application performance and availability

Radware Alteon helps distribute applications efficiently. The solution supports load balancing, traffic optimization and ensures application SLA.

This helps users have a more stable experience. Critical applications also reduce the risk of disruption.

Consolidate application delivery and security

Instead of deploying multiple disparate tools, enterprises can use a unified architecture. ADC, WAF, API Security, Bot Protection and DDoS Layer 7 Protection are combined in the same platform.

This helps reduce fragmentation in management. The operations team also has a more centralized view.

Protect applications across all environments

The solution supports on-premise, private cloud, public cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud. Enterprises can maintain consistent policies across multiple environments.

This is a critical benefit for organizations undergoing digital transformation or modernizing application infrastructure.

Reduce operational complexity

AI-Augmented Operations supports automatic observation, root cause analysis and anomaly detection. This helps reduce incident response time.

Automating onboarding, configuration and optimization also helps reduce the burden on operations teams.

Scale flexibly according to needs

Global Elastic Licensing allows flexible resource usage across devices, sites and cloud. Enterprises can scale ADC and AppSec according to actual needs.

This helps optimize costs and avoid excessive hardware investment.

No need to share SSL keys or change routing

A key strength is the ability to inspect cloud traffic without redirecting traffic, without sharing SSL keys, and without changing routing.

This helps enterprises better protect data sovereignty. At the same time, organizations still meet compliance and internal security requirements.

Enhanced protection against DDoS Layer 7

Radware combines inline enforcement, behavioral analysis, and cloud-based mitigation. This enables enterprises to better protect against sophisticated Web DDoS attacks.

Suitable for enterprises and service providers

Solution suitable for large enterprises, financial institutions, banks, e-commerce, telecommunications, government, education, healthcare, and MSSP service providers.

Multi-tenant model and elastic licensing help service providers deploy more flexibly for multiple customers.

Third-party assessment

According to the solution documentation, GigaOm gives Radware a 5-star AI rating and ranks Radware as "Leader" in the Radar report on Application and API Security. The documentation also recognizes Radware as being honored as the leading company in the field of artificial intelligence-enhanced vulnerability detection.

This assessment demonstrates Radware's capabilities in application security, API, and AI-assisted security operations. This is a critical foundation for Radware to expand its Application Delivery & WAF solution for modern enterprises.

Why should Vietnamese enterprises care about Application Delivery & WAF Solutions?

In Vietnam, enterprises are accelerating digital transformation. Web applications, mobile apps, APIs, and online service portals are playing increasingly important roles in business.

However, as applications become the primary transaction channel, risks also increase. Enterprises face web attacks, API exploitation, automated bots, online fraud and DDoS Layer 7.

Industries such as finance, banking, insurance, e-commerce, telecommunications, education, healthcare and public services need tighter application protection. They also need to ensure performance, uptime and user experience.

Radware's Application Delivery & WAF solution helps Vietnamese enterprises address two requirements simultaneously:

• Optimize application delivery.
• Enhance application security.

Enterprises can protect applications across multiple environments without increasing operational complexity. At the same time, organizations can scale protection capabilities as demand increases.

Sonic provides Radware Application Delivery & WAF Solution in Vietnam

Sonic Technology Solutions Joint Stock Company is Radware's strategic partner in Vietnam. Sonic brings advanced load balancing, application delivery and application security solutions to the Vietnamese market.

With experience in cybersecurity, Sonic supports customers in consulting, testing, designing deployment models and providing technical support for Radware's Application Delivery & WAF Solution.

Enterprises interested in Radware Alteon, Alteon Protect, WAF, API Security, Bot Protection or DDoS Layer 7 Protection can contact Sonic for detailed consultation.

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👉 Official website of Radware: https://www.radware.com/

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