Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

StackPath announced the discontinuation of its WAF and CDN product lines, redirecting its focus towards a cloud computing platform at the internet’s edge. As a result, the WAF service will cease operations on November 22, 2023.

The proverb, “A stitch in time saves nine,” encapsulates the core of web application security. Businesses must always be one step ahead of attackers and malicious actors to identify vulnerabilities, weaknesses, and misconfigurations in web applications and ensure they are patched and/or fixed before attackers can find and leverage them to orchestrate attacks.

What makes a good website penetration testing tool? Speed, agility, efficiency, or cost benefits? How about all of them? Hackers use automated tools to scan websites and apps before manually trying to exploit security loopholes. As the first step towards securing assets, you should do the same – only with better resources and before them.

Penetration testing is a pre-defined set of procedures used to identify any unknown weakness in the IT infrastructure of a business. It involves attempts to exploit vulnerabilities, which may exist in services and application flaws, operating systems, risky end-user behaviour, or improper configurations, to validate the efficacy of protection mechanisms and end-user observation of security policies.

F5 Cloud WAF combines signature and behaviour-based threat detection mechanisms to protect applications, regardless of the deployment location. It protects against injection attacks, session hijacking, cross-site scripting, man-in-the-middle attacks, and numerous other vulnerabilities, with continuously updated policies to shield against emerging threats.

Google, Amazon Web Services & others recently disclosed a vulnerability in HTTP/2 protocol, which is being tracked as “CVE-2023-44487”. The flaw lies in how the HTTP/2 protocol was implemented to increase the efficiency of transmitting various messages between endpoints by “Stream multiplexing”.

Cloudflare WAF protects against web-based attacks and malicious traffic using customizable rule sets. Cloudflare’s network extends across numerous data centers worldwide, ensuring efficient content delivery and robust DDoS protection. Moreover, Cloudflare provides supplementary functionalities such as CDN caching, SSL/TLS encryption, and DNS management to enhance overall web performance and security.

The Barracuda Web Application Firewall protects your web, mobile, and API applications against compromise, defends against web attacks, and delivers controlled access and authentication. This product is an attractive option for SMEs and other businesses searching for an effective WAF at an affordable price point.

Many organizations today rely only on “unauthenticated” web application security scans, leaving their admin and user portals unchecked. While it is crucial to protect your system against external automated attacks, you shouldn’t ignore the possibility of a targeted attack from someone with valid logins. If your app lets anyone signup online, it could easily expose your business to attackers.

Cloudflare’s web application firewall (WAF) serves as the central pillar of its advanced application security suite, ensuring the safety and efficiency of applications. Cloudflare’s free plan presents notable benefits for SMEs managing limited traffic and smaller-scale applications.