Wallarm enters its next phase of growth with product expansion, new COO and Field CTO
Wallarm, a leader in API security, announced a series of major milestones across product innovation, open-source contributions, team growth, and industry education, underscoring strong momentum as organizations worldwide grapple with escalating API and AI-driven threats.
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Company Growth: Investing in People and Leadership
Wallarm’s executive team has expanded to match its continued investment in people. In 2025, the company grew its employee base by 41%, reflecting strong demand for AI and API security expertise, and to support continued global expansion.
To support its next phase of growth, Wallarm expanded its executive leadership team with two key appointments:
Shayne Higdon, Chief Operating Officer
“We are at an inflection point in security. AI is rapidly becoming embedded in every critical system or application, APIs are now the dominant interface to the digital enterprise, and the industry’s traditional perimeter-based assumptions no longer hold. Most organizations are operating with limited visibility into this new risk surface.
“Wallarm is addressing this risk directly. We provide the visibility, protection, and governance required to secure APIs and AI systems at scale, which enables innovation without compromising resilience or trust. This is not a transient market opportunity, but rather a structural change in how security must be delivered. Wallarm is positioned to define and lead this category over the long term.”
Craig Riddell, Field CISO
“Wallarm really understands what CISOs need, “ Riddell points out. “The connection between APIs and AI is clear, and CISOs are looking for tools that do more than just walk the walk. The number one piece of feedback I heard from customers that makes me excited to join Wallarm is that the product really does what we say it does.”
These additions are evidence of Wallarm’s investment in scaling operations, deepening customer engagement, and helping organizations translate API security into measurable business outcomes.
Product Innovation: Precision Defense for Modern APIs
In the face of massively accelerating API adoption, Wallarm continues to raise the bar on how organizations detect and stop real-world API and AI attacks without disrupting legitimate traffic.
API Session Blocking — Wallarm recently introduced API Session Blocking, enabling security teams to surgically block malicious API sessions while allowing legitimate users and applications to continue uninterrupted. This capability represents a shift away from blunt, IP-based controls toward behavior-aware, session-level enforcement designed for high-volume, machine-to-machine traffic.
Dynamic API Security Testing — To help organizations find API vulnerabilities earlier in the development lifecycle, Wallarm released Schema-Based Testing. By leveraging API schemas as a source of truth, teams can identify security gaps faster, reduce false positives, and shift API security left, before vulnerabilities reach production.
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