Applications, APIs, and Cloud
Web applications and APIs are now the main front door to a company – for customers, partners, and attackers alike. We protect them against application and API attacks, bots, and DDoS – in the data center and in the cloud – and show you what your company looks like from the internet, just as an attacker sees it. Powered by Imperva and Check Point External Risk Management technologies.
51%
of internet traffic is generated by bots – for the first time in a decade, more than by humans. Malicious bots already account for 37% of all traffic (Imperva Bad Bot Report 2025).1
44%
of advanced bot traffic is aimed at APIs, even though APIs represent only 14% of the attack surface.2
40k+
API incidents in the first half of 2025 – according to Thales telemetry from over 4,000 Imperva customer environments.2
77%
of incidents reported in the EU between July 2024 and June 2025 are DDoS attacks.3
21.3%
of cases in ENISA data involve entry through vulnerability exploitation – the second most common path after phishing.3
Conclusion: the application, its APIs, and everything the company exposes to the internet constitute a single attack surface. Protection must cover both the traffic reaching them and the assets that everyone has forgotten about.
Scenarios from Imperva, Thales, and ENISA reports. The common denominator: the attack comes through the same path as customers – via the website, API, or public address. For each: what our technology does in that specific area.
Query injection, cross-site scripting in forms, or a known vulnerability in a component that hasn’t been patched yet. According to ENISA, vulnerability exploitation is the second most common entry path for attackers (21.3% of cases).3
Imperva WAF: blocks attacks on applications in the data center and in the cloud. According to the vendor, over 90% of customers use it in blocking mode.4
An old API version, a mobile app endpoint, or a partner integration. Simply changing an identifier in a request can allow someone to download someone else’s data – this is Broken Object Level Authorization, the top risk on the OWASP API Security Top 10 list.5 44% of advanced bot traffic targets APIs specifically.2
Imperva API Security: discovers APIs and classifies the sensitive data flowing through them, detects BOLA, unauthenticated APIs, and outdated versions, and works with WAF to block malicious traffic in real time.6
An automated script checks thousands of login-password pairs from leaks on the login page. In the Imperva report, the financial sector accounted for 22% of all account takeover incidents.1
Imperva Advanced Bot Protection and Account Takeover Protection: distinguish humans from bots and stop advanced automated attacks before they reach customer accounts.4
A flood of traffic to a website, API, or an entire address range – often as part of hacktivist campaigns. In ENISA data, DDoS accounts for 77% of incidents reported in the EU.3
Imperva DDoS Protection: protects websites, networks, individual IP addresses, and DNS servers. The vendor guarantees mitigation of Layer 3 and 4 attacks within 3 seconds and provides 13 Tbps of scrubbing capacity.7
A third-party script on the payment page – from an analytics tool, chat, or library – is replaced and sends data entered by customers to the attacker. The server sees nothing because the attack happens in the browser.
Imperva Client-Side Protection: protects against formjacking, skimming, and Magecart-type attacks, and helps meet PCI DSS 4.0 requirements.4
A test instance, an old subdomain, or a public data bucket – set up “for a moment” and never turned off. They aren’t in the inventory, so there’s no WAF in front of them.
Check Point ERM: discovers domains, subdomains, IP addresses, and cloud resources, detects open ports and configuration errors visible from the outside – even where no one looks anymore.8
A network firewall and TLS certificate are standard. But a firewall doesn’t understand application logic, and TLS also encrypts the attacker’s traffic.
A classic firewall sees ports and addresses. It doesn’t see someone downloading someone else’s orders via an API.
Imperva
Imperva Application Security protects applications and APIs in the data center and in the cloud. Cloud WAF operates as a service in front of the application, while WAF Gateway runs in your server room. Protection against attacks, bots, and DDoS works together.4
Blocks application attacks: injections, cross-site scripting, and exploitation of known vulnerabilities.
API discovery, classification of data flowing through them, and detection of abuse – including BOLA and unauthenticated APIs.6
Distinguishes humans from bots and stops advanced automated attacks, including account takeover.
Protection for websites, networks, IP addresses, and DNS. Guaranteed 3-second mitigation SLA for Layers 3 and 4.7
Client-Side Protection detects unauthorized scripts on the site and supports PCI DSS 4.0 compliance.
A secure CDN accelerates content delivery, while DNS protection ensures domain availability.
According to Imperva: over 6,000 customers, 113 billion blocked application attacks, and 3.6 trillion analyzed requests per month.4
WAF protects the applications you know about. Attackers start with the ones that were forgotten – or with copies you didn’t make: a fake login page under a similar domain.
Check Point External Risk Management (formerly Cyberint) looks at the company from the outside, just like an attacker. It discovers assets visible from the internet, searches for credential leaks in the deep and dark web, and detects sites impersonating your brand.8
Article 21(2) of the directive requires, among other things, ensuring business continuity (point c) and security in the acquisition, development, and maintenance of systems, including vulnerability handling (point e).9 In Poland, it is implemented by the amended National Cybersecurity System Act (KSC Act), effective from April 3, 2026.10
Article 9 requires financial entities to have ICT tools that ensure the resilience, continuity, and availability of systems and protect data at rest, in use, and in transit.11
For companies accepting card payments: requirements 6.4.3 and 11.6.1 concern the authorization of scripts on payment pages, control of their integrity, and detection of unauthorized changes.12
Regulations and standards do not specify products. We help translate them into specific application and API security measures – and document them for audit purposes.
SafeWave has been operating since 1998 as a vendor-agnostic integrator. We conduct implementations in stages so that protection does not halt company operations.
We catalog applications, domains, and APIs – including those that have been forgotten. Check Point External Risk Management shows what is currently exposed to the internet, and we verify how it is protected.
Traffic passes through Imperva in monitoring mode first. We tune rules based on real traffic, without the risk of blocking customers.
After tuning, we enable blocking: WAF, bots, DDoS, API. Simultaneously, Check Point ERM tracks new exposures, credential leaks, and impersonation sites.
Rule reviews during application changes, response to new vulnerabilities, reports, and support in English and Polish.
Let’s start with a review of your applications, APIs, and what your company exposes to the internet. We will show you where the risk is greatest and where to start.