Take the Quiz: Improving Your Web Application & API Security

Organizations that strive to deliver secure digital experiences will achieve a competitive advantage by safely unleashing application innovation that delights customers. However, changing dynamics in how applications are designed and deployed have expanded the threat surface and necessitated a paradigm shift in how security is delivered. This is especially true in the AI era, where burgeoning ecosystems and third-party integrations—mostly connected by APIs—proliferate across data centers, public clouds, and the edge.

This quiz will help you determine how to secure your web applications and APIs and adapt to emerging threats to application security in the 21st century. Take the Improving Your Web Application and API Security Quiz now.

1. What’s your organization’s current priority when it comes to securing web applications and APIs?

Selecting the right WAF solution for our business

Ensuring end-to-end web application and API security

Addressing security at every stage of the API life cycle

2. What’s your organization’s primary goal for web application and API security?

Delivering secure digital experiences

Protecting against ever-changing attack vectors

Implementing a security model for inbound and outbound API traffic

3. What’s holding you back from improving your web application and API security?

A need for protection of APIs in multiple ways

A lack of actionable insights into our applications and APIs

API security management is spread across functions

4. What must you accomplish to improve your web application and API security?

Ensure consistent security controls across all operational APIs

Leverage AI and ML algorithms to identify and block malicious activities

Reduce the complexity of managing web applications and APIs across environments

5. What ideal outcome would you like to achieve with your web application and API security?

Deploy a software-as-a-service (SaaS) WAF that integrates with our other security tools

Web application and API resilience with minimal friction and false positives

Ensure every API request is authenticated, authorized, and validated with zero trust security

6. What most appeals to you about a cloud-based WAAP platform?

Advanced, customized bot management

Ability to enforce web application protection and API discovery at our edge, regional edges, and across multiple clouds

A variety of customer options, ranging from low-touch self-service to co-managed solutions

7. If you could spend an afternoon doing one of the following, which would it be?

Learning how a WAAP solution can secure every app and API and future-proof architectures in today’s AI era

Learning about the strengths and weaknesses of WAF vendors

Learning about programmable services for real-time API traffic and data

8. What would you most appreciate in a web application and API security solution provider?

The ability to provide exceptional, secure digital experiences and continuously stay ahead of threats

A flexible, customizable approach to protection, not one-size-fits-all

The ability to mitigate risk and reduce complexity by protecting applications and APIs with a SaaS WAF

9. What’s a significant risk factor if you maintain the status quo?

We won’t be able to improve visibility into our web applications and APIs, and respond accordingly

Our InfoSec team will continue to be burdened with custom authentication rule management and false positive remediation

We won’t be able to discover and automatically protect our API endpoints dynamically

10. Which topics would you like to learn more about?

What security capabilities APIs need

What to look for in an effective WAAP solution

Which vendors are leaders in the WAF marketplace—and why