For many financial institutions and retail businesses, there is a need to balance the risks associated with payment fraud and advanced persistent threats against the economic imperative to provide excellent customer experiences in a competitive market. When good users are mistakenly flagged as fraudsters and can’t access payment services, customers get angry and brands lose revenue. These false declines result in lost customers, damaged reputation and lower revenue.

Typosquatting goes by many names: URL hijacking, domain mimicry and domain typo-squatting, to name a few. However, they all mean the same thing: malicious attackers register domain names similar to popular websites but with common typos and variations. Typosquatting aims to trick users who mistype the legitimate URL into visiting and using the fraudulent site. It is a widespread practice.

Authentication and authorization are two processes that play a significant role in any web application. These concepts ensure that only trusted individuals are granted access to the resources of the application. Plus, with all the web applications and services we use regularly, it is increasingly difficult to manage credentials for multiple user accounts. SAML technology provides a means for securely logging into multiple applications using a single set of credentials.

The market for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, or apps, was valued at $186B in 2022, and expected to grow to $700B by 2030, a CAGR of 18%. As organizations adopt more SaaS apps for business-critical operations, they expose sensitive data across an ever larger and more diversified variety of egress points in the cloud. And as attackers tend to follow the data, they are targeting SaaS apps like never before.

Welcome to our technical blog, where we’ll be diving into the world of Graylog and how you can secure your Graylog Server with Transport Layer Security (TLS). As an admin or a tech-savvy user, you know the importance of protecting your Graylog Server and the logs it manages from unauthorized access.