In today’ s dynamic and fast moving world, the Web can be a

Who’ s Knocking at the Door? –

Enforcing web access control

dangerous place to conduct business. SQL injections, cross-site

policies and security procedures is a bread and butter function of

scripting, illegal resource access, remote file inclusion etc. are

any WAF. How to do it is where the devil is in the detail. Ensure

some of the tools available to hackers attacking web applications.

any WAF offering supports user authentication and single sign-on

This unfortunate reality compels state-of-the art web application

( SSO) functions. This applies two-factor authentication and

security and enterprise network security solutions to adapt from

enables access to premise-based applications from outside the

a nice-to-have into a mission critical mandate.

enterprise network. In addition, it ensures access to data based

Businesses require a next-generation WAF that is flexible enough

on a user’ s role / business needs.

to adapt to changing IT infrastructures and the evolving threat

Two Minds Are Better Than One –

Cyber-attacks are increasing in

landscape, and also change based on the needs of the business.

severity and complexity, making it difficult for organizations to

In the background of the above, here are some of the

stay ahead of the rapidly evolving threat landscape. To assist, a

characteristics that a WAF needs to provide to keep businesses on

WAF vendor should provide options for fully managed services for

top of their game:

both on-premises and cloud-based WAF deployments. This

Agility Equals SecurityRisks –

DevOps and agile development practices are great at creating new applications quickly and efficiently. Unfortunately, the fluidity of these environments also creates a bevy of unintended security risks. Ensurea WAF solution

provides the organization with the insight and expertise from security experts that can assume full responsibility to configure and update security policies as well as actively monitor, detect, alert and mitigate attacks in real time.

can automatically detect and protect applications as they are

Protection Via Unification –

Leading analysts agree that the best

added to the network by automatically creating new policies and

WAF solution is one that provides both on-premises and cloud-

procedures.

based offerings. It provides a unified solution that ensures

Cover That Top Ten List –

Industry pundits and experts at security consortiums and communities continue to categorize and identify the greatest web application security risks facing

complete availability and protection with no security gaps between on-premises and web applications, and facilitates quick and easy migration of applications to the cloud.

organizations. A WAF solution should provide complete coverage,

AppWall a Better Web Application Firewall Solution

including all OWASP Top 10 risks.

AppWall is a Web application firewall solution that ensures fast,

Device Fingerprinting –

Bots, crawlers and spammers, using new techniques to disguise malicious traffic, can exhaust resources and scrape sensitive information from websites or cloud-based assets. A good WAF needs to sniff out these clandestine cyber assaulters. Device fingerprinting identifies, blacklists and blocks machines used for attacks regardless of the IP they hide behind.

reliable and secure delivery of mission-critical Web applications. It enables PCI compliance through mitigation of Web application security threats and vulnerabilities, preventing data theft and manipulation of sensitive corporate data, and protecting customer information. Additionally, it reduces the increasing risk of your enterprise ' s infrastructure being used to attack others.

Even if the bot dynamically changes its source IP address, its

AppWall is the first WAF to provide a real-time security patching

device fingerprint does not change.

solution for web applications in agile and continuous deployment

Negative + Positive = Zero-Day Protection –

Advanced application and“ smoke screen” attacks that use DDoS assaults to mask other tactics are becoming commonplace, while zero-day assaults swiftly exploit newly discovered vulnerabilities. Negative and positive security models that automatically detect application

environments via tight integrations with Dynamic Application

Security Testing( DAST) solutions. It detects and patches vulnerable resources automatically whenever an application resource change is introduced. AppWall is a core part of

Radware ' s next-generation Attack Mitigation System( AMS).

domains, analyze potential vulnerabilities, and assign optimal

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protection policies are critical.