During the India–Pakistan standoff in May 2025, these public-facing applications and APIs were targeted by a coordinated application-layer cyber campaign peaking at 85 million malicious requests. With limited tolerance for downtime or user disruption, protected platforms deployed Prophaze Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) to ensure continuous availability. The AI-native platform delivered real-time traffic absorption, autonomous mitigation, and centralized visibility—enabling uninterrupted operations throughout the attack window.
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Malicious requests blocked within hours
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Availability maintained across critical services
Challenge
- Large-scale Layer 7 DDoS floods, peaking at 85 million malicious requests within 10 hours
- Globally distributed botnets masking attacker origin and intent
- API probing and exploitation attempts targeting weak endpoints
- Zero-day exploit attempts designed to bypass signature-based defenses
- Advanced fingerprinting and evasion techniques defeating static WAF rules
- Inability of legacy, rule-based security tools to scale or respond in real time
- Zero tolerance for downtime, false positives, or citizen-facing friction
Solution
India’s protected digital platforms deployed Prophaze WAAP as an always-on, AI-native security layer for mission-critical web applications and APIs.
- Real-time Layer 7 DDoS mitigation with autonomous traffic absorption
- Kubernetes-native auto-scaling to handle sudden, extreme traffic surges
- ML-driven behavioral analysis to distinguish real users from bots
- CAPTCHA-less bot mitigation, preserving citizen experience
- Adaptive API rate limiting and payload inspection for critical endpoints
- Geo-fencing and IP intelligence to isolate hostile traffic instantly
- Real-time anomaly detection enabling custom rule enforcement within seconds
- Centralized dashboards for live attack visibility and response
Results
- Zero downtime across government, transport, and financial digital services
- 85 million malicious requests neutralized without impacting legitimate users
- Real-time containment of globally distributed botnet traffic
- 100% service availability for citizens and enterprises
- Significant reduction in security operations workload through autonomous mitigation
- Fully sovereign, Made-in-India defense—no reliance on foreign security imports
- Strengthened national resilience against future state-aligned cyber warfare
” We weren’t reacting — we were already defending. Prophaze enabled autonomous, real-time protection at a scale required for national infrastructure, without compromising availability or public trust.
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Senior National Infrastructure Security Leader
Customer
- India’s Critical Digital Infrastructure
Our Role
- API Security
- AI-Driven Web Security
- CAPTCHA-Less Bot Protection
- Adaptive Rate Limiting
- Behavioral & Geo-Based Threat Filtering
