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.
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-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.