ThreatX – Protecting all APIs against the most advanced threats

Application Programming Interface (API) plays a key role in web and mobile application development with enterprises now relying heavily on them to build their products and services. It is not a surprise since APIs allow developers to integrate with any modern technology, which provides the features that customers need.  APIs are the building blocks of modern applications, yet often only receive a fraction of the security and protection that is taken for granted on web front-ends. With sensitive data getting transferred via API, a secure API can guarantee the confidentiality of the message it processes by making it available to the applications, users, and servers who have proper permissions to consume it. Similarly, it also guarantees content integrity by ensuring that message has not been altered after transmission. API protection is currently a challenge for enterprises that need better resources and tools to discover API vulnerabilities and perform security scanning than what traditional technologies offer. They also need to accumulate the right talent to detect API security risks before the attackers do.

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.

Revolutionizing API Protection with Robust Services

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.