The latest Internet defense technology – deep packet inspection firewalls – is being touted as the best line of defense against worms that can sneak past earlier technology to wreak havoc in corporate ...

A distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack is a method to bring down a service by sending a flood of legitimate or illegitimate requests from multiple source devices. The goal is to overwhelm ...

Web application firewalls seem like a useful way to block application attacks, but I know of some people who are holding back on implementing them. What are the drawbacks to Web application firewalls?

A hot new trend in firewalls is the application-layer firewall, sometimes called an application shield. Although the attack sequences we used in this roundup could be described as “application layer” ...

The recent slew of high profile data breaches has prompted organizations to harden network perimeter defenses with the latest security technologies. In response, some cybercriminals are shifting their ...

Hello all. I am looking for real-world experience/recommendations for a Web Application Firewall to satisfy PCI DSS's section 6.6. As far as sizing, right now we're peaking at 2k concurrent HTTP ...

A web application firewall (WAF) is a critical component of an enterprise security infrastructure, providing a key security layer for web-facing applications and APIs. As web applications mature and ...

The Ponemon Institute recently surveyed 595 organizations and discovered that 65% experienced successful application-layer attacks that bypassed their existing web application firewall (WAF). The ...

Web application vulnerabilities put critical business applications and back-end databases at risk from attack, theft, and fraud. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS, or PCI), ...

The buzz about Web services has turned to discussions about the added security risks they pose. According to Gartner, Web services is about “moving application integration into firewall-evading ...

A web application firewall (WAF) is needed to protect web applications and APIs from cyber threats like SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and other malicious attacks. With cyberattacks on web ...

AI and cybersecurity have been inextricably linked for many years. The good guys use AI to analyze incoming data packets and help block malicious activity while the bad guys use AI to find and create ...