The Instart Web App and API Protection platform
Web application security from the origin to the browser
Instart’s web application and API protection (WAAP) platform delivers complete protection from the most advanced application cyber threats.
Cloud-based protection for the next evolution of threats
Increased application complexity, zero-day vulnerabilities, and a rapidly evolving threat landscape makes protecting your customers, your brand, and your web apps difficult. Appliance and edge-only products don’t provide the scale or flexibility to stay ahead of these threats — nor do they offer a complete set of protections from your origin all the way into the browser. The Instart platform was developed to provide best-in-class protection and easily adapt to emerging threats.
The Instart Advantage
Complete security from your origin to the browser
The Instart WAAP platform offers complete security from your origin down to the consumer’s browser or app, powered by deep visibility, intelligence, and automation.
These differentiating components allow Instart to drastically reduce time to detection, time to mitigation, and to provide the most comprehensive level of web app security possible.
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Visibility
Instart collects low-level signals from across our customer base, capturing unusual traffic patterns and anomalies to stay ahead of attacks.
Signals from the edge including request parameters, cookies, headers, URL parameters, GEO/IP, and user-agents are available for use in rule creation and in security event analysis. In addition, by leveraging the Nanovisor, Instart’s patented browser-based JavaScript virtualization technology, we collect underlying signals from the browser about the behavior and intent of all incoming requests.
Intelligence
Instart applies artificial intelligence and machine learning to our intelligence to automatically tune and adapts our array of security offerings reducing both the effort and time required for security management.
Instart leverages customer data, along with data from UBA and SIEM feeds, honeypot analysis, and IOC sources to provide intelligence-driven outputs for management and automation.
Automation
Instart applies artificial intelligence and machine learning to our intelligence to automatically tune and adapts our array of security offerings reducing both the effort and time required for security management.
Upon detecting a new potential threat, new rules are automatically created, which can be applied and enabled with a single click.
Global cloud network
Instart is one of the largest, most reliable, globally distributed cloud services in the world, processing more than 60 billion transactions and serving more than 200 million consumers per day.
Our PoPs run in global peering centers, interconnected with all major carriers and cloud service providers ensuring our presence provides the lowest latency. In addition, we maintain SSAE-16 SOC 2 Type II certification, Payment Card Industry (PCI) certification, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and healthcare industry compliance standards to meet the needs of customers in all industries.
platform products
World-class security products for the entire application and API stack
Instart’s products protect the end-to-end delivery of your web applications and APIs, making sure that your customers’ experience is not only fast, but secure and private. Instart’s products go beyond traditional appliance-based technologies with high scalability and extensive flexibility.
As part of the Instart WAAP platform, all of our products have the features you expect from an enterprise security offering:
- A single comprehensive configuration and reporting engine
- Role-based access control
- RESTful management APIs
- Powerful rules builders
- A comprehensive closed-loop reporting to configuration workflow
The Instart platform products protect your entire web infrastructure
Bot ManagementLeverages the Nanovisor technology on the browser to detect and block attacks from even the most sophisticated malicious bots.Web Skimming ProtectionProvides zero-trust protection of form fields and cookies within the browser, preventing attacks such as data skimming and cookie theft.Web Application FirewallPrevents sophisticated cyber attacks like advanced SQL injection, cross-site scripting, server-side forgery, and more.DDoS MitigationProvides protection against the largest denial-of-service attacks through a globally distributed and cloud scalable network.API ProtectionProvides security for both web and app APIs from sophisticated attacks, such as injection and resource exhaustion attacks.CDNAllows organizations to deliver fast and responsive experiences through leading content optimization for every visitor.