September 22, 2026 | 8:00AM PT

Speaker: Abdul Aziz Mohammed

Frontier AI has intensified cyber threats, automating enormous-volume and machine-speed attacks that legacy tools cannot stop. APIs have become the primary target for infrastructure breaches, with 87% of organizations suffering incidents last year. Fragmented, legacy security tools cannot handle the scale of AI attacks. Organizations need an elastic solution that addresses OWASP Top 10 Web Attacks, API Security and LLMs/agents challenges.

Join us to explore the evolution from web application firewalls (WAFs) to a comprehensive software-defined Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) framework. We will dive into the Avi’s unified web app security stack – integrated with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) for both VM and container workloads. We will demo how an integrated, in-line architecture provides high-performance, scale-out defense against automated AI-fueled threats.

What you will learn:

• The Software-Defined WAAP: Why the exponential growth of Kubernetes workloads and API interactions paired with the rise of autonomous AI attack bots demands a critical evolution from WAF to WAAP.
• In-Line Shield: a built-in, scale-out, hairpin-free WAAP directly into the load-balancing data path to mitigate high-volume, machine-speed AI attacks while ensuring resiliency with auto-scale and auto-heal.
• Operational Efficiency: a single solution to overcome fragmented security tools and achieve 360-degree visibility for all your web applications across VMs, containers and agentic AI workloads.
• Automated Discovery & Enforcement: How to combat AI-driven shadow AI by automatically detecting and visualizing Shadow, Orphan, Zombie, and Active (SOZA) APIs and consistently applying security policies.
• Automated Granular Security & OpenAPI Standards: apply pinpoint security policies down to the individual API path and enforce strict allow-lists by directly importing Swagger/OpenAPI specifications.

Plus, hear directly from Bradley Lachance from the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), how Avi has revolutionized their infrastructure with Avi WAAP for API protection.

Don't forget to register for Part 2 and Part 3 of the series!