What is a WAAP? What is API Protection? What is Cross-Site Scripting? What is Web Scraping? The world of cyber security and application protection in particular is constantly evolving and getting more complex. We believe that understanding the landscape of application security is not the solemn business of security officers...

What does it take to be a leader in application security? Cybersecurity analyst firm KuppingerCole addressed this exact question in their newly released Leadership Compass for Web Application Firewalls (WAF) 2022. Their answer: it takes more than being a one-trick pony. In their detailed report, KuppingerCole demonstrates to be a market leader...

After many long lockdowns, the information technology industry woke up to a new reality. Cyber crime was too widespread and heavily resourced. Hybrid architectures had grown too complex to be able to provide adequate defense, resulting in new larger threat surfaces. To make matters worse, there was a lack...

Today, everyone has at least one insurance policy. It could be a healthcare, automobile, or life insurance policy. We invest heavily in these policies and have high expectations for a return on our investment when the unforeseen happens and we need the protections they provide. But most of us...

Facing a daily barrage of attacks by bad bots, today’s web application defenses are starting to show their age. The challenge is huge. A user session could be a customer looking to buy a product, or a good bot such as a search engine or application monitoring tool. But...

Understanding the threat landscape is one thing; extracting and leveraging actionable threat intelligence to reinforce an organization's defensive posture is another. Threat intelligence empowers organizations by providing them with the knowledge and visibility needed to make well-informed decisions about their security defenses and respond faster to current and evolving...

We have seen a spate of cloud service provider outages with overly negative economic impact. The AWS outage in December 2021 disrupted Disney+, Ticketmaster, Slack and Netflix, among a host of others. The Facebook (now Meta) outage in October 2021 was particularly painful. It not only took down WhatsApp...

How many of you still participate in-person meetings on a daily basis? If this question was asked before the beginning of 2020, it would have raised several eyebrows. Our working days prior to the pandemic were often filled with face-to-face meetings. In post-pandemic days, even with people going back into...

A short list of the companies that have suffered recent API-related breaches are a who’s-who of the global technology brain trust: Microsoft, Venmo, Equifax, Instagram, Facebook, Amazon, PayPal, and many others. If even these tech-savvy organizations are subject to cyberattack, the reality couldn’t...