Cisco Panoptica vs Radware API Security Service

Cisco Panoptica is a cloud native application security solution for finding and addressing risks across multi-cloud environments. Its coverage includes Kubernetes workloads, APIs, serverless functions, virtual machines, and infrastructure-as-code repositories. Graph-based attack path analysis combines security findings, vulnerabilities, and identity risks to map attack paths and remediation options. Workload scans review CVEs by asset or Docker image and prioritize them using environment security and network topology. API security catalogs internal, externally exposed, and third-party APIs, assesses risks, and detects sensitive data in API traffic. Code Security checks connected repositories for misconfigurations, secrets, and code vulnerabilities. Listed source control providers include GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, and Bitbucket; several security modules can create Jira tickets. Deployments include AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes, including Kubernetes on-premise. Cloud integrations are agentless and use a secure read-only role. The free plan costs nothing. Integrated repositories are scanned daily when new commits exist, with manual rescans also available.

Radware API Security Service is a hybrid API-security product for API, self-hosted, and web environments. It follows APIs from discovery through posture management, testing, and runtime protection. Discovery covers third-party, outdated, shadow, and deprecated APIs across environments. Using live production traffic, posture management assesses risk and shows current API behavior and exposure. Runtime controls address embedded attacks, business-logic attacks, API-focused bots, and HTTP DDoS. Contextual automated testing adapts to application business logic, covers the OWASP API Top 10, and can connect to CI/CD pipelines. For business-logic defense, the service maps API workflows and creates rules that can be enforced against attacks. Discovery, analytics, risk assessment, posture management, and protection are presented in one management and reporting portal. Radware says integration is possible with on-premises, private-cloud, public-cloud, hybrid, and microservices environments, including without traffic redirection. A free trial is available; pricing is on request.