Prophaze

Prophaze is a Kubernetes-native Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) platform purpose-built for modern, cloud-native environments. Recognized as a Representative Vendor in the Gartner® Market Guide for Cloud WAAP 2025 and featured in the Gartner® Market Guide for API Protection 2024, Prophaze unifies WAF, API security, bot mitigation, Layer 7 DDoS protection, and runtime microservices defense into a single, AI-driven platform eliminating the tool sprawl that burdens security and operations teams.

For organizations running workloads on Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP), the Prophaze partnership delivers runtime-aware application security directly within the cluster protecting APIs, microservices, and east-west traffic without code changes or disruption to DevOps workflows. Unlike legacy WAFs retrofitted for Kubernetes, Prophaze provides continuous API discovery, behavioural threat detection, and inline policy enforcement natively aligned to NKP's architecture. The result: end users gain comprehensive, real-time protection across their application layer while reducing operational complexity, accelerating secure Kubernetes adoption, and supporting compliance with SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI DSS requirements.