# Cequence Managed Services

### Extend Your Security Team with World-Class Application Protection Expertise

IT and Security teams are stretched thin, trying to respond to increasingly sophisticated attacks while keeping up with routine tasks. Cequence Managed Services complement and extend your team’s expertise with our world-class team of cybersecurity experts to efficiently and effectively mitigate threats against your organization’s applications and data.

[Why Cequence Security](https://www.cequence.ai/why-cequence/ "Why Cequence Security ")

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## Managed API Discovery & Risk Monitoring Service

Optimizes the discovery of your API attack surface while creating a runtime API inventory to help reduce your API risk posture. Customers are assisted in the proper configuration of [API Security](https://www.cequence.ai/products/api-security/) for API attack surface management and runtime API inventory and risk mitigation.

### API Attack Surface Discovery

Discover your organization’s API attack surface, identify, and remediate risks to improve your overall security posture.

### Runtime Inventory

Get visibility into your runtime API inventory including the discovery of known APIs, unknown APIs, and OWASP API Security Top 10 and [API 10+](https://www.cequence.ai/blog/cq-prime-threat-research/api-security-api10-defined-as-bots-abusing-well-formed-apis/) risks.

### Risk Remediation

Obtain key recommendations on critical risk areas that can improve your API security posture to help thwart targeted cyberattacks.

## API Threat Protection Managed Service

Provides customers with advanced monitoring, threat consulting, policy review, and optimization to strengthen your API protection and incident response capabilities. As part of this service, Cequence assists in the configuration and management of [Bot Management](https://www.cequence.ai/products/bot-management/) for threat detection and mitigation.

### Proactive Threat  Protection

Provides advanced monitoring and incident response activities to prevent sophisticated cyberattacks from exploiting your APIs.

### Threat Consulting, Reporting, and Policy Review

Delivers an assessment of your current API risk posture, policy efficacy, and areas of suggested improvement to mitigate targeted attacks more effectively.

### Integration, Automation, and Optimization

Streamlines [Bot Management](https://www.cequence.ai/products/bot-management/) deployment to ensure your API performance, reliability, and availability goals are met.

## Managed Web Application and API Protection (WAAP)

Cequence Managed WAAP combines API security, bot management, WAF, and DDoS protection to defend your applications and APIs from cyberattacks that aim to disrupt business operations.

### API Security

API discovery, security posture management, testing, and remediation.

### Bot Management

Advanced bot detection, mitigation, and fraud prevention requiring no application modification.

### Web Application Firewall

Powerful WAF that blocks SQL injection, OWASP Top 10 attacks, and more.

### DDoS Protection

Protects applications and APIs from large-scale, high-volume attacks that aim to disrupt business operations.