A good WAF secures not just your websites and cloud applications but will protect against bots and protect containers, databases, VMs and APIs too. It will have a low rate of false positives, which is becoming critical as the volume of attacks increase. If you are a small business then a cloud-based one has a lower management overhead.
Part of the value of a WAF is the ability to quickly react to new threats by adding rules, instead of having to wait for full vendor patches to address vulnerabilities and then going through a full patch test & deploy cycle.
You still need to keep up to date on your patches, but for some zero-day vulnerabilities if you have a WAF in place you can react much faster.
Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions are essential for protecting applications from various online threats, ensuring continuous access and data security for enterprises.Web Application Firewalls are designed to monitor, filter, and block HTTP traffic to and from a web application, encapsulating the critical task of securing applications from vulnerabilities like cross-site scripting (XSS), SQL injection, and other OWASP top threats. These solutions offer customizable rules for specific...
-Application security
-OWASP top 10
-Protection on two aspects: detection/prevention of malicious IPs or threats
-Certain WAFs protect against DoS, ...
A good WAF secures not just your websites and cloud applications but will protect against bots and protect containers, databases, VMs and APIs too. It will have a low rate of false positives, which is becoming critical as the volume of attacks increase. If you are a small business then a cloud-based one has a lower management overhead.
Part of the value of a WAF is the ability to quickly react to new threats by adding rules, instead of having to wait for full vendor patches to address vulnerabilities and then going through a full patch test & deploy cycle.
You still need to keep up to date on your patches, but for some zero-day vulnerabilities if you have a WAF in place you can react much faster.