Application & API Security
WAF, API protection and bot defense for the applications your business runs on — engineered by the team trusted with India’s highest-traffic government and BFSI platforms.
What we deliver
Your web applications and APIs are the front door to your business — and the most attacked surface you own. Credential stuffing, API abuse, scraping bots and zero-day exploits don’t announce themselves; they arrive as traffic that looks almost legitimate. Blocking them without blocking customers is the hard part.
Enrich deploys and operates application security stacks — Web Application Firewalls (WAF/WAAP), API discovery and protection, bot management and SSL/TLS offload — primarily on F5 BIG-IP, F5 Distributed Cloud and NGINX App Protect. Our engineers hold deep F5 expertise built over a decade of deployments, including technology migrations for platforms processing traffic for over a million businesses.
The result: applications that stay up under attack, APIs that are inventoried and defended rather than forgotten, and compliance evidence (PCI-DSS, RBI, SEBI CSCRF) generated by the platform itself.
What's included
Web Application Firewall (WAF/WAAP)
Policy-tuned F5 Advanced WAF and Distributed Cloud WAAP — positive and negative security models, not default-template deployments.
API Security
Automatic API discovery, schema enforcement and abuse detection — protection for the endpoints your teams built and the shadow APIs they forgot.
Bot Management
Separates real users from credential-stuffing, scraping and inventory-hoarding bots using behavioral signals — without CAPTCHAs punishing customers.
L7 DDoS Protection
Application-layer DDoS defense that absorbs attack traffic while legitimate sessions continue.
SSL/TLS Offload & App Delivery
High-performance encryption termination and NGINX-based application delivery — security without a latency tax.
Zero-day Mitigation
Virtual patching at the WAF layer buys your developers time when the next Log4Shell lands.
From assessment to operations
Assess
Application and API inventory, traffic profiling, current WAF policy review (most WAFs we audit run in monitoring mode with default policies — effectively off).
Design
Platform and policy architecture — on-premises BIG-IP, SaaS Distributed Cloud, or NGINX for containerized estates — matched to where your apps actually live.
Deploy
Staged policy enforcement: learn, tune, block. False-positive burn-down before enforcement, so security never breaks checkout.
Operate
Continuous policy tuning, attack-campaign response and monthly reporting — the WAF stays effective as your applications change.
Delivered on
Common questions
We already have a WAF. Why are we still getting attacked?
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A WAF in monitoring mode, or enforcing a default template policy, is a logging device — not protection. The majority of WAF estates we audit have never been tuned to the applications behind them. Our deployments follow a learn-tune-block cycle: the policy is built from your real traffic, false positives are burned down, and only then is enforcement enabled.
Do we need separate API security if we have a WAF?
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Classic WAF rules understand web pages, not API semantics. API protection adds discovery (finding endpoints you didn’t know were exposed), schema enforcement (rejecting requests that don’t match the contract) and per-endpoint rate behavior. Modern WAAP platforms combine both — that’s our default recommendation for API-heavy estates.
Will a WAF slow down our application?
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Deployed correctly, no — F5 platforms are engineered for line-rate inspection, and SSL offload frequently makes applications faster than before, because encryption work moves off your servers. Latency budgets are part of our design phase, and we benchmark before and after.
Can you protect applications during a migration or re-platforming?
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Yes — this is a specialty. We’ve executed WAF technology refreshes and platform migrations for mission-critical national platforms with zero unprotected windows: parallel-run the new stack, mirror policies, cut over per-application.
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