Businesses run on apps. And according to the latest GigaOm
Radar Report for App and API Protection, Citrix
Systems, Inc., is a Leader and Fast Mover when it comes
to protecting them.
"As application architecture has become more complex, the
sophistication and volume of attacks have increased independently, causing a
litany of issues for IT staff," notes Don MacVittie, Research Analyst, GigaOm.
"The volume of attack data, number of attack vectors, and dispersion of attack
activity all make protecting applications harder."
Designed to assist IT organizations in identifying App and
API protection solutions that can help, the GigaOm Radar Report for App and API
Protection evaluated vendors on the following criteria:
- How well they are
positioned to serve specific market segments, including small-to-medium
and large enterprises, service providers and public sector organizations
- How and where their
solutions can be deployed and what they can protect
- Performance against
critical and differentiating technical features, including rules bundles,
AI enhancement, API discovery, data leak protection and credential
stuffing protection, bot management and metadata evaluation
- Flexibility,
scalability, breadth of coverage and TCO/ROI
Citrix was ranked as a Leader and Fast Mover in all
categories, and Citrix
Web App and API Protection was noted for the following strengths:
- Maturity of platform
- Deployment flexibility,
which enables companies to implement at their own pace across multi-cloud
environments
- Intent-based
configuration, which makes deployment automated, easier, faster and less
error-prone
- Single-pass
architecture, which provides for better performance, and reduces latency
Simple, Holistic Protection Delivered in the Cloud
A cloud-delivered service that offers holistic, proven, and
layered protection against known and zero-day application attacks, Citrix Web
App and API Protection keeps all application types secure across multi-cloud
with a web app firewall, bot management, and DDoS protection. The solution is
simple to deploy and can be easily configured from a single pane of glass,
enabling IT to maintain a consistent security posture.
With Citrix Web App and API Protection, IT organizations
can:
- Secure applications
wherever they are hosted - on-prem and in private public, hybrid or
multi-cloud environments
- Protect both monolithic
and micro-services based applications
- Discover, catalog and
bring every API under governance
- Leverage intelligent
machine learning techniques to learn base-line usage and more easily
detect API abuse
"APIs are the most valuable and vulnerable assets of any
business, and in today's world of distributed work, protecting them is not an
easy task," said Pankaj Gupta, Senior Director, Product Management, Citrix. "We
are pleased to be recognized by GigaOm for our efforts to speed and simplify
the process and will continue to focus on delivering solutions that allow our
customers to provide secure and reliable access to the applications their
employees need to get work done, wherever it needs to get done."