NOMINATION HIGHLIGHTS

APIs are no longer just a growing attack surface – they are the primary attack surface for digital business. Wallarm’s own 2026 API ThreatStats Report puts hard numbers behind this reality: APIs accounted for 43% of all newly added CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities in 2025, 98% of API vulnerabilities are easy or trivial to exploit, and 97% can be compromised with a single request. The threat is not theoretical. It is automated, scalable, and accelerating.

Wallarm was built specifically for this moment in time, and its unified approach is precisely what the current threat landscape demands. Most organizations are still cobbling together point solutions that don’t communicate with each other, leaving dangerous gaps between discovery, protection, and response. Wallarm is the only platform that combines API discovery, real-time threat prevention, API attack surface management, and automated security testing in a single integrated solution. Where legacy WAAP vendors have bolted on API capabilities as an afterthought, Wallarm was engineered API-first from the ground up.

The platform’s relevance deepens as AI transforms the attack surface. Wallarm’s research found that 36% of all AI vulnerabilities disclosed in 2025 are also API vulnerabilities, and that ratio holds steady when those vulnerabilities are exploited in the real world. Emerging protocols like MCP saw a 270% surge in vulnerabilities in a single quarter, with exposed MCP servers giving attackers control not just over data, but over autonomous agent workflows. Wallarm is already positioned to secure this emerging frontier, offering dedicated agentic AI protection at a time when most vendors are still catching up.

What further distinguishes Wallarm is its adaptability across environments (cloud, on-premise, Kubernetes, API gateways, and edge) paired with support for both legacy and modern API protocols. Its grammar-based detection engine slashes false positives, reducing the alert fatigue that leaves security teams overwhelmed. And with deployment possible in as little as 15 minutes via Security Edge, time-to-protection is dramatically compressed.

Trusted across fintech, healthcare, ecommerce, and technology sectors, Wallarm is helping organizations turn API security from a reactive burden into a proactive business advantage, securing the digital transactions, AI systems, and autonomous workflows that define modern enterprise.