Akamai RASP

Akamai RASP (Runtime Application Self-Protection) is a specialized application security solution engineered to protect web applications and microservices from zero-day exploits, business logic abuse, and internal code vulnerabilities from within the runtime execution environment. Unlike perimeter firewalls that evaluate external network requests in isolation, Akamai RASP embeds directly into the application runtime process, inspecting method invocations, database calls, and code execution flows in real time to block malicious exploits with near-zero false positives.

The solution provides continuous protection against advanced attacks that evade network-level WAFs, including SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), insecure deserialization, command injection, and zero-day framework exploits like Log4Shell and Spring4Shell. Key capabilities include deep in-memory inspection, automated context-aware threat blocking, telemetry streaming, vulnerability discovery within third-party open-source libraries, and zero-tuning operational overhead. Because protection is tied directly to code execution, RASP eliminates the need for complex firewall signature updates whenever application updates are deployed.

Akamai RASP integrates with modern Java, .NET, Node.js, and Python runtimes, containerized orchestration systems like Docker and Kubernetes, and enterprise DevSecOps pipelines. Common enterprise use cases include securing legacy applications that cannot be easily patched, mitigating open-source software supply chain vulnerabilities, providing defense-in-depth behind web application firewalls, and maintaining continuous compliance with PCI-DSS 4.0 runtime requirements. Akamai RASP equips enterprise development and security teams with precision runtime protection.