Monday, April 10, 2017

2017 - The return of the WAF. why WAF are back ?

 It’s out there
  • Web application are the highest targeted and they are open 24/7 for attack
  • Web application have complexity hence more security concerns
  • No one sees the big picture in terms of security

 Security:
  • Virtual patching is good remediation
  • There are still SQLi vulnerability
  • The ultimate forensics tools
  • The only way to know if someone try to hack or already hacked you
  • WAF sees the big security picture while apps are not design for security
  • Bots are a change to any web site owner, WAF can deal with bots

New technology
  • New environment: Cloud technology takes us to the old days of unsecured web sites with the same problems but just a little more sophisticated.
  • New protocols: web socket is underlying protocol and enable the implementation for various usage that should take care of the same old security attack vectors: session management, scrubbing user input and more.
  • There are more challenges to the application than ever. Scarping , DoSing Bots and much more business problem with security orientation that should be detected and mitigated.

And there is more…

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