{"id":157,"date":"2017-07-12T18:33:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T18:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.webscalenetworks.com\/?p=157"},"modified":"2023-12-29T08:24:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T13:24:09","slug":"web-application-firewall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webscale.com\/blog\/web-application-firewall\/","title":{"rendered":"Got WAF?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cyber attacks increased 22%<\/a> over Black Friday weekend in 2016. Phishing links are also expected to go up as much as 336% around Thanksgiving, making consumers more vulnerable to malware and the theft of financial information. With attacks increasing, and getting more sophisticated, experts see this trend continuing as we get closer to the big holiday shopping season this year.<\/p>\n

For e-commerce site owners, these threats and attacks can take many forms. Threats at the web application layer of your storefront, for example, can have catastrophic consequences, like the theft of sensitive information (credit card data), or attacks that render a web application unavailable for users. You could even experience an attack from a competitor scraping your site for product information or pricing.<\/p>\n

So how does an online store owner prepare for this, when everything about the attack is unknown \u2013 timing, origin, type of attack, and so on?<\/p>\n

The answer is the web application firewall, or WAF.<\/p>\n

They come in many forms, but Webscale offers a true SaaS-based Cloud WAF<\/a> as part of its CloudEDGE Security offering – simple to deploy, easy to manage via an intuitive customer portal, and offering significant ROI benefits over hardware and software-based deployments.<\/p>\n

Many vendors will claim to be SaaS or Software-as-a-Service, simply because they offer a monthly contract, but that\u2019s not it at all. The Webscale Cloud WAF is always future-proofed with new security rules and software updates automatically applied across our entire customer base instantly. That means that if your storefront is affected by a zero day vulnerability, you don\u2019t need to wait for the platform provider to patch it, we\u2019ll automatically write security rules to instantly protect your applications, regardless of its nature, ensuring you\u2019re protected all the time.<\/p>\n

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And there\u2019s a great deal more, one-click DDoS protection with Shield Mode, superior block\/allow lists capabilities to block (or allow) requests and sessions by IP address, user agent or the user\u2019s origin country, as well as application awareness. The Webscale Cloud WAF is the only security solution designed with specific optimizations for e-commerce and enterprise applications. We do this because each application may have different security needs and the ability to apply custom security policies is critical for application owners and IT.<\/p>\n

I could go on, but you can visit our Security and Compliance use case<\/a> if you\u2019d like to learn more. Instead I\u2019ll leave you with a few highlights of 2016 Black Friday\/Cyber Monday weekend:<\/p>\n