Blog Security Beyond the Edge: Complementing WAAP with Always-On API Security Edward Roberts is a Senior Director of Marketing at Akamai. Akamai API Security is already transforming how organizations understand and secure their API estates globally. At Akamai, we’re major advocates for implementing a strong application defense at the network edge — and products like Akamai App & API Protector help organizations around the world stay protected every day.  \r\n But as more application activity shifts to application programming interfaces (APIs) and this threat landscape expands, something has become increasingly clear: While web application and API protection (WAAP) platforms provide important foundational protection for APIs, they aren’t sufficient on their own. \r\n Last year, this recognition spurred us to launch Akamai API Security : an always-on API security product that extends beyond the capabilities of WAAP solutions.…