FortiAppSec Cloud simplifies and strengthens application security and delivery across hybrid and cloud environments. This SaaS platform secures network availability and accelerates application performance while delivering consistent security. The AI-driven engine detects zero-day exploits and separates benign users from potential threats, maximizing detection accuracy while minimizing false positives.
FortiAppSec Cloud consolidates web application and API security, advanced bot protection, threat analytics, and DDoS mitigation into a single, unified management interface. Using real-time threat detection covering the OWASP Top 10, it protects web applications and APIs from known attacks and AI-generated zero-days. Machine learning is also used to analyze and prioritize threats and to monitor sophisticated, human-like, bot behaviors. This is complemented by network and application layer DDoS protection and threat intelligence from FortiGuard Labs.
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To enhance continuous application availability and user experience, FortiAppSec includes:
AI-Ready Application Protection
Web application and API security with ML engine that detects zero-day threats at maximum accuracy
Bot Management
ML-driven modeling of bot behaviors to distinguish between humans, good bots, and malicious ones
DDoS Protection
Real-time customizations, automation, and a 24/7 SOC to mitigate network and application layer attacks
Content Delivery Network
Caching, content routing, and acceleration using a network of images on globally distributed servers
Global Server Load Balancing
Intelligent traffic routing for optimal application performance using DNS-based load balancing
Threat Analytics
Alert fatigue reduction with ML-based traffic analysis to detect and prioritize application security events
"WAF as a SaaS solution helped us in securing our applications and APIs with minimal changes and very quickly. Solution provides pay as you grow option hence overall provides a wonderful experience."
"We had a very great experience with Fortinet Cloud Web application and API protection solution. They onboarded all our applications on the cloud solution in a day with a very well planned migration. Overall we are very satisfied with the performance and security effectiveness."
"We are working on multiple Fortinet products i.e., FortiGate, FortiAppSec, FortiAnalyzer, Fortitoken etc. & support received from vendor is truly exceptional"
"Reliable product with full WAF & API protection. It is also a very cost-effective solution."
SANS recently reviewed Fortinet’s FortiWeb Cloud service, which offers a wide range of security capabilities and controls in a brokered model to protect applications from web application attacks, API attacks, malicious bots, and much more.
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Note for Gartner Peer Insights™: Reviews from vendor partners or end users of companies with less than $50M in revenue are excluded from this methodology. See the full “Voice of the Customer” methodology.
Gartner, Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’: Cloud Web Application and API Protection (WAAP), Peer Contributors, 30, September 2025.
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