Citrix Systems Inc announced as a leader App and API Protection

Businesses run on apps. And according to the latest GigaOm Radar Report for App and API Protection, Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTXS), is a Leader and Fast Mover when it comes to protecting them.

“As application architecture has become more complex, the sophistication and volume of attacks have increased independently, causing a litany of issues for IT staff,” notes Don MacVittie, Research Analyst, GigaOm. “The volume of attack data, number of attack vectors, and dispersion of attack activity all make protecting applications harder.”

Designed to assist IT organizations in identifying App and API protection solutions that can help, the GigaOm Radar Report for App and API Protection evaluated vendors on the following criteria:

• How well they are positioned to serve specific market segments, including small-to-medium and large enterprises, service providers, and public sector organizations
• How and where their solutions can be deployed and what they can protect
• Performance against critical and differentiating technical features, including rules bundles, AI enhancement, API discovery, data leak protection, and credential stuffing protection, bot management, and metadata evaluation
• Flexibility, scalability, breadth of coverage, and TCO/ROI

Citrix was ranked as a Leader and Fast Mover in all categories, and Citrix Web App and API Protection were noted for the following strengths:

• Maturity of platform
• Deployment flexibility, which enables companies to implement at their own pace across multi-cloud environments
• Intent-based configuration, which makes deployment automated, easier, faster, and less error-prone
• Single-pass architecture, which provides for better performance, and reduces latency

Simple, Holistic Protection Delivered in the Cloud

A cloud-delivered service that offers holistic, proven, and layered protection against known and zero-day application attacks, Citrix Web App and API Protection keeps all application types secure across multi-cloud with a web app firewall, bot management, and DDoS protection. The solution is simple to deploy and can be easily configured from a single pane of glass, enabling IT to maintain a consistent security posture.

With Citrix Web App and API Protection, IT organizations can:

• Secure applications wherever they are hosted – on-prem and in private-public, hybrid, or multi-cloud environments
• Protect both monolithic and micro-services based applications
• Discover, catalog, and bring every API under the governance
• Leverage intelligent machine learning techniques to learn base-line usage and more easily detect API abuse

“APIs are the most valuable and vulnerable assets of any business, and in today’s world of distributed work, protecting them is not an easy task,” said Pankaj Gupta, Senior Director, Product Management, Citrix. “We are pleased to be recognized by GigaOm for our efforts to speed and simplify the process and will continue to focus on delivering solutions that allow our customers to provide secure and reliable access to the applications their employees need to get work done, wherever it needs to get done.”