Despite the relative maturity of the Web, it is still the most hostile environment imaginable. Given the vast array of threats that exist online, including distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks ...

Web application firewalls (WAFs) have been around long enough that the Web security industry is now quite mature. After all, the first WAFs appeared in the late 1990s to address growing threats ...

Firewalls have significantly improved the overall security posture of organizations since they first came on the scene back in the late 1980s. Like everything else, though, firewalls have evolved.

According to a new report 52 percent of public vulnerabilities bypass leading web application firewalls (WAFs). Yet over 91 percent of bypassed vulnerabilities can be mitigated when rules are tailored ...