Enterprises and Financial institutions have an ever-increasing number of public-facing applications to provide their customers more flexibility and comfort, it is more important in todays connected world. Hence the complexity, risk, and wider attack surface are also increased.
Securing Applications is essential as threat land scape is increased and vulnerabilities targeting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of an application. Advanced threats often elude traditional defenses. Ensuring the security of your applications is very important to protect your data and your business.
As per the report of Veracode’s State of Software Security Vol. 10,83% of the 85,000 applications it tested had at least one security flaw, research found a total of 10 million flaws, and 20% of all apps had at least one high severity flaw.
A Web Application Firewall (WAF) protects your web apps by filtering, monitoring, and blocking any malicious HTTP/S traffic traveling to the web application, and prevents any unauthorized data from leaving the app. It does this by adhering to a set of policies that help determine what traffic is malicious and what traffic is safe