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Link11 Included in the Web Application Protection Platforms Landscape, Q3 2026

Written by Lisa Fröhlich
Published on October 15, 2026
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Link11 announced today that it has been included as a notable vendor in Forrester’s “The Web Application Protection Platforms Landscape, Q3 2026.” The report provides security professionals with an overview of vendors in the web application protection platforms market and categorizes them by geographic focus, industry focus, deployment model, and vendor size.

Jens-Philipp Jung, CEO at Link11 said: “Being included in Forrester’s landscape is an important milestone for us. Attackers no longer target just the web application. They go after APIs, automate attacks with bots, and increasingly aim at AI-powered applications. We built our WAAP platform so security teams can see and stop these threats in one place, without managing a patchwork of tools.”

Link11’s WAAP platform

Link11’s cloud-based Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) platform combines a web application firewall, API security, web DDoS protection, and bot management in a single architecture. Security teams get one place to set policy, one view of their security posture, and consistent protection across every channel an application exposes.

The platform also helps organizations protect their intellectual property from uncontrolled AI access. AI crawlers and agents now harvest web content at scale, often to train models or feed AI search, and usually without the content owner’s knowledge or consent. Link11 treats AI traffic as its own category rather than lumping it in with general bot traffic. Organizations can see which AI tools and crawlers access which content, and when. They can then set AI access policies and enforce them: allow the crawlers they have agreed to, and block or limit the rest. Audit-ready logs record every request, so organizations can document how their content is being used and support compliance and internal governance.

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Lisa Fröhlich Corporate Communications
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Link11 press spokesperson Lisa Fröhlich is the hub for all official corporate communications. When Lisa isn't attending one of the numerous IT events held throughout Germany, she works on new content with a focus on analyses and statistics. After graduating from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, she worked for almost a decade in public relations as a PR manager and press spokesperson for various companies before finding her way into the complex world of IT security.