Displaying items by tag: Web application firewalls

GUEST OPINION:  As more and more businesses embrace digital transformation, APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) have become a crucial part of practically every company's IT infrastructure. APIs are useful because they make it easier for programs to communicate with one another and share information, but they also pose security risks. Implementing a strong API security strategy is crucial for protecting APIs and the sensitive data they handle. Protection against cyberattacks and unauthorised use is an essential part of API security. All requests made to an API should be checked for authenticity and validity by a security system.

COMPANY NEWS: Radware® (NASDAQ: RDWR), a leading provider of cyber security and application delivery solutions, today announced it enhanced its Cybersecurity Partner Program with an expanded offering for managed security service providers (MSSPs).

GUEST OPINION: Skilled cybersecurity talent is in tight supply. It's challenging to recruit, hire and retain skilled professionals: trends that are expected to continue into the near future.

Gas and electricity provider Jemena has chosen the Salt Security API Protection Platform to protect its critical gas and electricity infrastructure.

GUEST OPINION: The cyber security world is in turmoil. A new generation of aggressive, layer 7 (L7), HTTPS Flood attacks, also known as Web DDoS Tsunami attacks, is disrupting the market by bypassing organisations’ traditional DDoS protection and web application firewall (WAF) solutions.

COMPANY NEWS: Appdome, the mobile app economy's one stop shop for mobile app defence, today announced the launch of its new MOBILEBot Defense solution. This groundbreaking solution offers mobile brands unparalleled bot detection, comprehensive intelligence and rapid defence against malicious bots, credential stuffing and account takeovers (ATOs) in mobile app business lines. Appdome is currently the only company to offer comprehensive anti-bot defence built specifically for mobile apps.

GUEST OPINION: API security is a top priority for any organisation wanting to protect customer data from malicious attacks. With the rise of Kubernetes as the de facto standard for container orchestration, many security solutions have emerged.

COMPANY NEWS: Radware, a leading provider of cyber security and application delivery solutions, today introduced a new cloud web DDoS protection solution.

GUEST OPINION: For ages, web application firewalls (WAFs) have been synonymous with application protection. In fact, many application security teams believe the best option to protect their applications is a top-notch on-prem WAF solution, especially if those applications are deployed on-prem or in a private cloud.

Edge cloud platform provider Fastly's new Managed Security Service is available to its web application firewall customers and aims to help organisations reduce the risk of web application attacks.

COMPANY NEWS: Radware, a leading provider of cyber security and application delivery solutions, today announced it advanced its cloud application protection services to create a best-of-suite offering.

COMPANY NEWS: Fastly today announced it was named a 2023 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Cloud Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) for the fifth consecutive year – and the only vendor to be recognised for five years running.

Independent research shows Cloudflare's web application firewall (WAF) generates up to around 90% less carbon than on-premises applications at low to medium traffic demand.

Analyst firm Gartner has identified three factors influencing growth in security spending.

GUEST OPINION: It's May 2020 and a large electronic goods retailer realises its bot problem is going from bad to worse.

COMPANY NEWS: Radware, a leading provider of cyber security and application delivery solutions, announced it has been named a Product, Innovation, Market, and Overall Leader in the 2022 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass report for web application firewalls (WAF).

COMPANY NEWS: Fastly, the world's fastest global edge cloud platform, today announced a reseller partnership with Human Security. The Fastly-Human partnership will offer customers industry-leading bot protection as well as fraud and account abuse prevention to keep cybercriminals out of their online applications and services.

GUEST OPINION: As the network perimeter blurs and attack surfaces expand for Australian organisations, it's becoming clear that a new defensive posture and approach is required.

COMPANY NEWS: Radware, a leading provider of cyber security and application delivery solutions, today announced that Ukraine's State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection (SSSCIP) is using Radware's Cloud DDoS Protection and Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) Services as pro-bono technical assistance to increase its cyber defences in the face of aggressive and persistent cyber attacks. Ukraine's SSSCIP is tasked with protecting state information resources.

GUEST OPINION: At a time when digital transformation has become central to business, even the most important applications come with a 'use-by' date. Left unchecked, legacy code inside these applications can become a hindrance over time, limiting DevOps teams whose job it is to innovate.