Indusface
About
Indusface is an application security company that provides an AI-powered Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) platform called AppTrana, which protects web applications, APIs, and AI workloads from vulnerabilities, DDoS attacks, and bot threats across 6,500+ customers in 95+ countries. The company combines AI-driven automation with 24x7 human expert oversight to deliver autonomous vulnerability discovery, scanning, virtual patching, and runtime protection. Indusface is recognized as a catego...
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Ideal Customer
- Indusface positions itself across both SMB and mid-market to large enterprise segments — its entry pricing at $99/app/month and bundled managed services make it attractive to organizations without dedicated in-house WAF engineers, particularly SMBs and mid-market firms seeking enterprise-grade protection without the operational burden.
- Gartner Peer Insights reviewers span organizations with annual revenue from $50M to $10B+, indicating meaningful enterprise adoption alongside its SMB base.
Key Differentiators
- Indusface's primary differentiator is its guarantee of zero false positives in full block mode from day one — a claim it positions as unique in the WAAP market, achieved through AI/ML-tuned Adaptive Protections validated per application by a 24x7 managed security team before enforcement, eliminating the weeks-long monitor-mode ramp that competing platforms typically require.
- A second major differentiator is the bundling of managed services, DAST scanning, virtual patching (SwyftComply), DDoS, bot protection, and API security into a single platform starting at $99/app/month — where competitors like Akamai, Imperva, and Cloudflare charge separately for managed services add-ons.
Industries Served
- Indusface serves over 12 industry verticals, with its strongest concentration in Banking, Financial Services & Insurance (BFSI), fintech, healthcare, pharmaceutical, retail/e-commerce, SaaS, IT & technology, telecom, government, power & energy, oil & gas, and infrastructure.
- Its compliance tooling is specifically tuned for regulated-industry mandates including RBI, SEBI, IRDAI, PCI DSS 4.0, HIPAA, SOC 2, and GDPR, making it particularly well-positioned for financial services and healthcare customers in India and globally.
Service Coverage
- Indusface operates globally, serving over 6,500 customers across 95 countries, with its globally distributed cloud infrastructure spanning Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and North America to enable low-latency protection and regional data residency.
- The company is headquartered in Vadodara, India, with additional offices in Bengaluru, Mumbai, Delhi, and a US headquarters in Dallas, Texas opened in 2024 as part of a deliberate Americas expansion strategy.
Partnerships
- Indusface's most significant technology partnership is with Amazon Web Services (AWS), which is listed as an official Technology Partner in the Indusface partner directory; the AppTrana platform is available on AWS Marketplace, and AWS infrastructure has been core to Indusface's global scale since inception.
- The company operates VAR and MSP/MSSP channel partner programs, with registered partners including Derive Technologies, SISL Infotech, Auxiliary Digitech, and CyberGrid Solutions India among its listed resellers, and it offers a white-label multi-tenant edition for MSSPs and MSPs to deliver branded security services to their own clients.
Company Size & Ownership
- Indusface was founded in 2012 (incorporated in 2004) by Ashish Tandon (CEO), Nandini Tandon (CPO), and Venkatesh Sundar (now leading US expansion), and currently employs approximately 150–180 people across its India and US offices.
- Revenue is estimated at ₹50–100 crore (~$6M–$12M USD) for the fiscal year ending March 2025 per Indian regulatory filings, with a 10% one-year revenue CAGR; third-party sources provide broader estimates ranging from $6M to $20M depending on methodology.
Compliance & Certifications
- Indusface holds PCI DSS v4.0.1 certification (maintained since 2018), ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification (since 2019), SOC 2 Type II attestation, HITRUST CSF certification, GDPR compliance with a published Data Processing Addendum, and CERT-In empanelment as a trusted security auditor by the Indian government.
- These certifications are backed by independent third-party audits and are available upon request, meaning Indusface can serve as a compliant vendor to customers in healthcare, financial services, and payment card environments.
Compiled from public sources by VenSearch · Last researched October 14, 2026
Offerings
16 offeringsAppTrana AI Shield
AppTrana AI Shield is an AI firewall for LLM applications and AI agents that inspects every prompt and response inline to block prompt injection, jailbreaks, data leakage, and denial-of-wallet attacks. It is model-agnostic, supporting OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Amazon Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Mistral, and self-hosted models, and is built on risk-based policies derived from AI pentesting findings validated by Indusface security experts. Deployment requires only a DNS change with no code changes, and the solution is fully managed 24x7.
AppTrana API Security
AppTrana API Security provides autonomous discovery and classification of documented, shadow, zombie, and rogue APIs, along with runtime protection enforcing schema-aware positive security models learned from real traffic patterns. It includes OWASP API Top 10 scanning, AI-assisted API pentesting, SwyftComply AI remediation for clean compliance reports, behavioral bot and L3-L7 DDoS defense for APIs, and 24x7 managed services for policy tuning and false-positive validation.
AppTrana Bot Protection
AppTrana Bot Protection uses behavioral AI/ML models to detect and mitigate malicious automation across browser, API, and machine traffic by scoring signals including IPs, user agents, URI paths, request velocity, sessions, browser fingerprints, headless indicators, and API call patterns. It supports workflow-level and endpoint-specific bot risk thresholds, allowing different mitigation actions (allow, challenge, tarpit, block) for high-risk paths like login, checkout, and AI endpoints, and includes 24x7 managed escalation and good-bot allowlisting for verified crawlers and LLM bots.
AppTrana Managed DDoS Protection
AppTrana Managed DDoS Protection delivers always-on, unmetered L3-L7 DDoS mitigation across a 100 Tbps+ globally distributed network, using behavioral AI to distinguish legitimate users and API clients from low-and-slow floods, bots, and scraper traffic. It supports autoscaling edge capacity, granular rate limiting by URI, IP, session, host, and geography with block, challenge, and tarpit responses, and includes 24x7 expert escalation during active attacks. Pricing bills only on clean traffic reaching origin, so attack volume never inflates the invoice.
AppTrana Managed Services
AppTrana Managed Services is a bundled 24x7 security operations team that handles onboarding, WAF policy tuning, false-positive validation, DDoS and bot monitoring, SLA-based virtual patching via SwyftComply AI, latency debugging, and custom caching policy management across web, API, bot, DDoS, and AI Shield protection. Every AppTrana plan includes a named Customer Success Manager who conducts quarterly business reviews with leadership-ready reports covering protection status, attack analytics, and open risks.
AppTrana WAAP Platform
AppTrana is a fully managed Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) platform that continuously discovers attack surfaces, scans for vulnerabilities via DAST, protects web apps, APIs, and AI workloads at the edge, and autonomously remediates findings. The platform deploys in block mode from day one via a DNS change with no code changes required, and includes WAF, DDoS, bot protection, API security, and 24x7 managed services starting at $99 per app per month.
AppTrana Web Application Firewall
AppTrana WAF is a fully managed cloud web application firewall that deploys in full block mode from day one using AI/ML-tuned Adaptive Protections validated per application, guaranteeing zero false positives. It includes origin server protection to prevent direct-to-origin bypass, dual-CDN delivery for global availability, client-side script protection for PCI 4.0 compliance, and 24x7 expert-managed tuning and policy enforcement.
Asset Discovery
AppTrana Asset Discovery continuously maps an organization's external attack surface by automatically finding internet-facing web apps, APIs, AI endpoints, and shadow assets that security teams may not know exist. The discovered inventory feeds directly into the AppTrana protection and scanning workflow so that autonomous protection covers the real attack surface rather than only manually registered assets.
Client-Side Protection
AppTrana Client-Side Protection monitors JavaScript and scripts executing inside the user's browser, allows trusted scripts to run, and blocks malicious outbound requests before data leaves the browser. It addresses browser-side attacks such as Magecart skimming and satisfies PCI DSS 4.0 script integrity requirements.
Indusface WAS
Indusface WAS is a Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) platform that performs scanning, penetration testing, and malware checks across web applications, APIs, and mobile apps (Android and iOS). It covers OWASP Top 10, OWASP API Top 10, and SANS 25 vulnerabilities, includes AI-assisted pentesting by certified experts for business logic flaws, AcuRisQ risk-based vulnerability prioritization, asset discovery for external attack surface mapping, and an MSSP edition with white-label multi-tenant DAST capabilities, starting from $59.
Managed Security Service Providers (MSSP) Program
Indusface offers a white-label managed security program for MSSPs that allows them to deliver outsourced security operations to their clients using Indusface's AppTrana platform and Indusface WAS in a white-label, multi-tenant configuration. MSSPs can offer managed WAAP, DAST, and vulnerability management services under their own brand.
Managed Service Providers (MSP) Partner Program
Indusface provides a channel partner program that allows Managed Service Providers to resell AppTrana WAAP to their clients. The program includes access to a white-label, multi-tenant WAAP MSP edition enabling partners to deliver web application security services to their customer base.
SSL / TLS Certificates
Indusface offers SSL/TLS certificates with PKI enterprise encryption backed by 24x7 expert support. The offering also includes PKI and PKI-as-a-Service for digital identity management on-premises or in the cloud, certificate lifecycle management to automate renewals and prevent outages, VMC/BIMI certificates to display brand logos in email inboxes, and digital signing certificates to authenticate documents and software.
SwyftComply
SwyftComply is AppTrana's autonomous vulnerability remediation capability that virtually patches all critical, high, and medium vulnerabilities at the WAF edge instantly, without requiring code changes or developer involvement. AI generates targeted virtual patches for DAST findings, security experts validate them for zero false positives before enforcement, and customers receive a clean zero-vulnerability compliance report within 72 hours for audits including SOC 2, PCI DSS, and HIPAA.
SwyftComply AI
SwyftComply AI is a managed application security service that combines AI-driven penetration testing for business-logic vulnerabilities with autonomous virtual patching at the AppTrana platform edge, closing the gap between vulnerability discovery and remediation at machine speed. Multi-model AI agents scan applications, Indusface experts validate and eliminate false positives, and bespoke edge policies are deployed within days, delivering an audit-ready zero-vulnerability report on SLA for compliance frameworks including RBI, SEBI, IRDAI, PCI DSS 4.0, SOC 2, and HIPAA.
Value Added Resellers (VAR) Partner Program
Indusface operates a channel partner program for Value Added Resellers to resell its security products including AppTrana WAAP and Indusface WAS. Partners can locate certified partners via a partner directory and join the Indusface partner network.
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