kt cloud CDN #2 Realizing Security Innovation: A Global Edge-Based Unified Defense Solution for Web, API, and Bots

As attacks targeting web applications, APIs, and bots simultaneously increase, defense at the network layer alone has become insufficient. In response, WAAP (Web Application and API Protection) has emerged, expanding the role of the traditional WAF and combining API security, bot management, and DDoS mitigation into a single platform.

The core of API security lies in first defining what is normal. It learns traffic to build a normal pattern (baseline), automatically discovers Shadow APIs not documented officially, and blocks authorization bypass vulnerabilities such as BOLA (Broken Object Level Authorization).

Bot defense is not simple blocking but rather sophisticated analysis that distinguishes humans from bots. Malicious behaviors such as Credential Stuffing, content scraping, and inventory macros are identified through behavioral analysis and threat intelligence, and mitigated using methods such as CAPTCHA, rate limiting, and decoy responses.

kt cloud performs this defense on a globally distributed edge network based on the Akamai edge platform. By processing inspection at the location closest to the user, it reduces latency, and by sharing global traffic and threat intelligence in real time, it applies consistent policies from a single console.