Radware EPIC-AI: Epic Challenges Met with EPIC AI Capabilities


AI has become a prevalent term over the past few years, frequently mentioned in various aspects of the digital landscape. It's no surprise that AI has emerged as a key topic in cybersecurity, featuring prominently in numerous discussions related to threats, defenses, and innovative solutions. As organizations face increasingly sophisticated cyber challenges, malicious actors are using AI to generate and automate attacks, making them more deceptive and challenging to detect. Consequently, the role of AI in defense has become even more critical. This mandates that cybersecurity solutions adopt a "fight AI with AI" approach.

Furthermore, many unknowns remain, and further understanding is essential . What many overlook is the need for a security solution built not just to address basic AI-driven threats, but also to counter more advanced, rapidly evolving risks. The reasons driving the demand for these advanced solutions are shifting, making it essential to adopt modern, capable defenses. As challenges expand and evolve at an accelerating pace, it becomes increasingly difficult to keep up. Let's take a closer look at some of these emerging threats and challenges.

Navigating the Shifting Threat Landscape

As cyberattacks grow in frequency, size, and complexity, organizations face increasing threats from DDoS attacks, bots, and malicious web transactions. Radware has identified four key drivers behind this changing threat landscape:

  1. Evolving Motivations: Hacktivist groups are driven by political, religious, and financial goals. For instance, politically motivated groups like NoName and Anonymous Russia have been targeting organizations tied to global events, while religiously motivated attackers focus on entities they believe oppose their beliefs.
  2. Advanced Tools: Attackers are utilizing modern, all-in-one tools like MHDDoS, available on GitHub, which integrate multiple attack vectors, allowing them to bypass traditional security measures.
  3. Growing Community: Gamers and online social networks are contributing to the rise of new attackers, with many using platforms to share and sell attack tools.
  4. AI-Driven Attacks: The use of AI has revolutionized cyberattacks. Tools like WOLF GPT allow attackers to automate attacks more efficiently, including CAPTCHA-breaking and leveraging AI-generated exploits.

To combat these threats, organizations must adopt AI-powered, integrated security platforms to stay ahead of this evolving landscape.

Stricter Regulatory Requirements

New and more comprehensive regulatory standards are reshaping cybersecurity.

  • PCI DSS 4.0 introduces new requirements for WAF, API protection, and client-side security, going beyond previous versions.
  • NIS2 Directive in Europe mandates holistic measures like DDoS protection to ensure application availability and compliance.
  • In the US, the SEC now requires organizations to publicly disclose any significant cybersecurity incident within four business days.

Last but certainly not least, new AI-related regulations are rapidly evolving, adding further guidelines and compliance requirements to consider and adhere to.

These evolving regulations demand integrated security platforms, as pinpoint solutions are no longer sufficient to meet stricter and broader compliance requirements.

Expanding Hybrid Cloud Deployments

As hybrid cloud deployments expand, organizations face the challenge of managing both on-premises and multi-cloud environments.

  • 55% of organizations are operating in three or more cloud environments, while 73% still maintain on-premises data centers.
  • This requires balancing security across multiple cloud vendors and ensuring consistent protection across all environments.

The complexity of hybrid cloud setups makes it crucial to implement integrated security solutions that deliver seamless, unified protection.

Cybersecurity Staff & Skills Shortages

A significant shortage of qualified cybersecurity professionals is straining organizations, with 67% reporting skill gaps and nearly 4 million open positions globally. 45% of organizations struggle to find the right talent, increasing pressure on existing teams.

To address this, companies need to adopt more automated security solutions that reduce reliance on human intervention and consider expert managed services to provide additional support and expertise in managing their cybersecurity needs.

Securing the Future: Beyond Traditional Security with Radware's EPIC

The challenges you're facing are growing in complexity and sophistication. The volume of threats is increasing at an exponential rate. Attack vectors are expanding into more vulnerable territories, and the attack surface continues to widen. Can your team keep pace with these ever-evolving threats? Are you staffed adequately with people who possess the right expertise? Do you have the proper tools in your security arsenal? Are they sharp and precise enough to address these new and advanced attacks? Most critically, are your solutions adaptive, autonomous, and self-learning as conditions change and the battle intensifies?

At our core, we are dedicated to protecting your applications and infrastructure with intelligent security, an integrated platform, expert defense, and consistent protections. Our solutions are powered by AI-driven intelligence, seamlessly infused across every aspect of our offerings. We protect all your digital assets, including mobile and web applications, as well as APIs, across a variety of environments—whether in public clouds, private cloud data centers, microservices, or beyond. Our solutions defend against a wide array of threats, such as web attacks, API abuse, AI-based attacks, malicious bots and DDoS attacks.

Our integrated platform includes real-time protection engines, equipped with tools like Web Application Firewalls (WAF), API protection, bot management, and DDoS defense. All of this is managed through a single cloud security portal, giving you full visibility and control over your network and application protection.

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As we deliver our comprehensive, multilayered 360-degree approach to security through our Cloud Security Platform and given the rising sophistication of attackers who increasingly leverage AI, we recognize the need to "fight AI with AI" to stay ahead.

These unprecedented (and Epic) challenges call for an innovative and revolutionary approach—introducing Radware EPIC-AI™.

EPIC-AI is a set of AI-powered algorithms and GenAI capabilities that are seamlessly integrated across multiple product touchpoints, whether enhancing and strengthening existing solutions or delivering an entirely new experience.

At the core of our offerings are AI-driven, machine-learning algorithms that power critical functions in our real-time cloud protection engines. These engines provide comprehensive protection, including DDoS and Web DDoS protection, WAF, API security, bot management, ATO prevention, and client-side protection.

We integrate our capabilities seamlessly across all enforcement points, whether it’s Alteon, DefensePro X, our cloud services, or third-party platforms like NGINX, Envoy, AWS, and GCP. This allows us to apply security policies, signatures, and rules uniformly, regardless of where the application resides.This unique approach, unparalleled in the market, ensures organizations receive consistent protection across both on-premises, private and public cloud environments.

Our cross-platform AI reasoning, powered by capabilities like threat intelligence insights and pre-emptive protection feeds, seamlessly integrates data from multiple sources, unifying our real-time protection engines into a comprehensive, holistic platform.

Additionally, sophisticated AI-driven cross-model correlation, policy tuning, and recommendations capabilities span across these protection engines, enabling precise attack detection while minimizing false positives and false negatives.

The magic continues as we empower SOC teams—ours included—with AI-enabled tools to significantly reduce MTTR (Mean Time to Resolution) and gain greater control over the security of their applications and infrastructure.

This is just the beginning of our journey. Our long-term R&D efforts and strategic investments in AI and ML have laid strong foundations, fuelling innovation and setting the stage for what's to come.

We’re excited to share these capabilities with you and look forward to unveiling even more AI-powered solutions soon.

Dan Schnour

Dan Schnour

At Radware, Dan leads various product marketing initiatives for cloud application protection services, DDoS protection solutions, and application delivery products. He brings a wealth of experience in product management and marketing from industry leaders such as Meta and Cisco Systems, where he focused on networking and identity security products. With an MBA from Cornell University and a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Technion, along with his industry experience, Dan is uniquely equipped to translate complex technical concepts into compelling marketing strategies and impactful business plans.

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