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title: "Security: WAF, Anti-DDoS & Bot Management"
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# Security: WAF, Anti-DDoS & Bot Management

Optimi orchestrates DDoS protection, WAF, Rate Limiting and Bot Management to keep your properties online, without compromising performance.

## In this section

- [Zero Trust: Secure Remote Access & ZTNA, No VPN Required](/en/security/zero-trust.md): Replace complex VPN tunnels with intelligent access orchestration. Optimi verifies identity and device posture for every request with a SASE platform.
- [Web Application Firewall: Layer 7 Protection](/en/security/waf.md): A managed WAF that inspects Layer 7 traffic in real time, intercepting application attacks while letting legitimate requests through, with a Dual WAF for safe rule changes.
- [DDoS Protection: Layer 3/4 Attack Mitigation](/en/security/ddos.md): Global Anycast network that intercepts and scrubs volumetric attacks, automatically mitigating Layer 3/4 DDoS so your sites and apps stay online.
- [Rate Limiter: Advanced API Protection](/en/security/rate-limiter.md): Intelligent rate limiting that filters API traffic in real time, stopping brute-force logins, denial-of-service attempts, and endpoint abuse before they reach you.
- [Bot Management: Proactive, Granular Protection](/en/security/bot-management.md): Machine-learning bot detection that scores every request in real time, blocking malicious automation while letting trusted crawlers and AI agents through, with no friction for humans.
- [API Protection: Secure Your APIs at the Edge](/en/security/api-protection.md): Authenticate, validate and rate-limit every API call at the edge, blocking OWASP API Top 10 abuse, bots and data exfiltration before traffic reaches your origin.
- [Account Takeover Protection: Stop ATO Fraud](/en/security/account-takeover.md): Block credential stuffing, brute-force and bot logins at the edge with behavioral detection, leaked-credential intelligence and progressive challenges, so real users sign in untouched.