WAAP Decision Path

Web Application & API Protection

WAAP Protection

Peakhour evaluates malicious traffic at the edge with WAF rules, API policy, bot signals, rate limits, and DDoS controls, then delivers clean application traffic with evidence for every decision.

Peakhour applies WAF, API, bot, rate limit, and DDoS decisions before clean app delivery and evidence logging.

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WAAP edge defense workflow showing malicious traffic, Peakhour WAF, API, bot, rate limit, and DDoS decisions, clean app delivery, and evidence logs.

Compact WAAP workflow showing threats, Peakhour edge policy decisions, clean app and API delivery, and evidence logs.

Layered Defense at the Edge

Each request is evaluated across WAF signatures, API schema policy, bot signals, and surge controls before it reaches application infrastructure.

91%

detection rate

Policy Decisions Stay Explainable

Allow, challenge, rate-limit, and block actions are captured with request context so security and platform teams can tune controls quickly.

Full

decision context

Deploy on Your Terms

Run Peakhour as your edge or attach Peakhour intelligence to your existing CDN stack without replacing your current delivery model.

Flexible

Works with your edge

Threat Traffic Rarely Arrives as a Single Pattern

Credential abuse, malicious automation, and Layer 7 flood traffic often overlap in the same traffic window. WAAP keeps these signals in one decision path so policy can adapt per request instead of relying on a single static rule.

Attack Mix Shifts Fast

Abusive traffic rotates payload shape, endpoint focus, and request cadence to bypass single-control defenses.

Policies Need Context

The right action depends on route sensitivity, user state, request intent, and real-time attack pressure.

Operations Need Confidence

Security teams need to verify that mitigations are working without manually reconstructing why a decision was made.

WAAP policy decision board showing WAF blocks, API schema checks, bot signal scores, rate limits, DDoS controls, and clean app delivery actions.

API Policy and WAF Rules Work as One Control Surface

Peakhour applies API schema and authentication expectations alongside WAF logic so exposed and internal APIs are governed consistently against API OWASP risks and payload abuse.

API rule workflow showing REST and GraphQL routes checked against schema, authentication, bot signals, rate limits, and logged outcomes.

Layered Mitigation Preserves Clean Delivery

When risk escalates, WAAP combines bot controls, rate limiting, and DDoS protections with WAF policy to absorb hostile traffic while preserving stable delivery for legitimate sessions.

Unified application security control plane showing WAF, API, bot, rate limit, and DDoS policy decisions before clean app delivery.

WAAP evidence board showing WAF, API, bot, rate limit, DDoS, and clean delivery logs exported to dashboards and SIEM.

Controls Feed Operational Evidence by Default

Every policy branch writes structured event evidence so responders can correlate attack type, selected control, and delivery outcome in one place.

Bot and Abuse Mitigation

Automation signals and behavior profiles feed direct allow, challenge, and block outcomes tied to route-level policy.
Rate and IP Intelligence

Rate controls and IP context suppress flood behavior and hostile origins without overblocking trusted customer traffic.

Dashboard Evidence Confirms Policy Behavior in Production

The visual roadmap explains how controls layer together. Dashboard telemetry then proves those controls are acting as intended under live load, with events that security and platform teams can review quickly.

Signal WAF and API detections Track exploit and abuse patterns

Action Allow, challenge, block Verify policy execution

Outcome Stable clean delivery Confirm app-facing impact

Firewall analytics dashboard showing detected attacks, policy actions, and time-based trend evidence for WAAP operations. — Operational evidence

Operational proof remains connected to layered controls, so screenshot evidence supports decision quality instead of replacing the page narrative.

Related evidence

Application Attacks Reduced in Production

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