Prophaze WAAP & Kubernetes-Native WAF

Prophaze is an application security company founded by web application security experts, led by founder and CEO Vaisakh T R and co-founder and COO Lakshmi Das. Its contact page lists a head office in Milpitas, California, an R&D center at Technopark in Thiruvananthapuram, India, and a UAE office in Sharjah Media City, and it serves banks, energy firms, public bodies and manufacturers.

The Prophaze platform is an AI-driven web application and API protection (WAAP) service that combines WAF, API protection, bot mitigation and Layer 7 DDoS defense, with additional AI and LLM security, DNS security and CDN options. Machine learning detects anomalies and triggers blocking, rate limiting or virtual patching, with security analysts reviewing critical responses around the clock. It can be deployed as a cloud service, on-premises, in hybrid mode or natively in Kubernetes through Helm, Terraform or CloudFormation. Logos on the site include National Housing Bank, Vedanta, Hindustan Zinc, Bharat Electronics and GMR Group.

• Web application firewall: Blocks OWASP Top 10 attacks with AI-driven anomaly detection.
• API protection: Discovers and protects APIs, with a free API discovery tool.
• Bot mitigation: Detects and blocks malicious bots and automated abuse.
• Layer 7 DDoS defense: Absorbs application-layer floods with rate limiting and blocking.
• Kubernetes-native WAF: Deploys inside clusters through Helm, service mesh or API gateway.
• AI and LLM security: Guards AI applications against prompt injection, model abuse and data exfiltration.

A provincial government portal can deploy the WAF on-premises to filter attacks and DDoS during peak periods. A bank can protect mobile banking APIs and block credential-stuffing bots. An e-commerce company running on Kubernetes can embed the WAF in its clusters and get a managed 24x7 response service.

Web, API, bot and DDoS protection come in one platform with one price covering all features, so buyers avoid stacking several products. The vendor reports deployment in about 15 minutes, under 5 ms of added latency and a 99.99% SLA with active-active clustering. A managed option with round-the-clock analysts suits organizations without their own security operations team. On-premises and Kubernetes-native deployment gives control over data residency.

Organizations are consolidating separate WAF, API, bot and DDoS products into single WAAP platforms, and Kubernetes adoption is pushing protection closer to the workloads. Geopolitical hacktivist campaigns have also increased application-layer DDoS attacks on public services. Vietnamese banks, government portals and e-commerce sites face similar attack volumes and data residency expectations that favor on-premises or hybrid options.

Head office in Milpitas, California; R&D in Technopark, Thiruvananthapuram, India; UAE office as Prophaze Technologies LLC in Sharjah. The website is operated under Prophaze Technologies Pvt Ltd. Listed as a representative vendor in Gartner Market Guides for WAAP (2025, 2026) and API Protection (2024), and validated as a WAAP vendor by SecureIQLab.