2. Web Application Firewalls
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Web Application Firewalls

Web Application Firewall (WAF) Overview

What are Web Application Firewalls (WAFs)?

Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) hel protect externally-facing web applications. WAFs are part of a layered cybersecurity strategy. It falls to the WAF to prevent zero-day attacks on web apps and APIs that potentially reside in serverless architecture.

In 2006 the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) mandated the protection of applications in production environments with web application firewalls or other devices that provide similar functionality.

Web Application Firewall (WAF) Features & Capabilities


WAFs protect web applications against threats such as:

  • Cross-site scripting

  • SQL injection

  • Session hijacking

  • Denial of service

  • Buffer overflows


WAFs generally present the following features:


  • Libraries of attack data based on known attacks to web applications

  • Monitoring, filtering and blocking of data and access to web applications

  • Automated attack detection, both identity-based (e.g. dynamic whitelisting, fingerprinting, risk scoring) and behavioral (e.g. risk scoring)

  • Advanced security techniques (e.g. deception/misdirection, virtual patch deployment, honeypot)

  • Zero-day attack prevention (related to the above)

  • A management interface with alert system

  • Reporting and analytics on threat and application usage

Pricing Information

The cost of web application firewalls depends on deployment. There are three options:

  1. A managed service or cloud-hosted WAF delivered as part of a subscription. This can be relatively low overhead as part of a larger subscription (e.g. part of a CDN). But it also may contain unneeded features.

  2. A network-based appliance. This presents relatively high overhead but reduces latency because it is installed locally and close to the application.

  3. A host-based WAF residing in the application’s code. This is rarer and may present less desirable computing costs and greater maintenance.

Web Application Firewalls Products

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F5 BIG-IP

22 Ratings

F5 BIG-IP from Seattle-based F5 Networks is a SSL VPN solution and suite of products supporting a wide range of security and application performance needs. The suite includes BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) traffic management and optimization, BIG-IP DNS, BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) ide...

Imperva SecureSphere

6 Ratings

SecureSphere from Imperva in California is an enterprise application and file security suite, combining database and file security management and monitoring under its database and file security products with the SecureSphere Web Application Firewall, and provides total visibility through its mana...

AWS WAF

5 Ratings

Amazon Web Services offers AWS WAF (web application firewall) to protect web applications from malicious behavior that might impede the applications functioning and performance, with customizable rules to prevent known harmful behaviors and an API for creating and deploying web security rules.

Cloudbric

We don't have enough ratings and reviews to provide an overall score.

Cloudbric is a cloud-based web security provider, offering a Web Application Firewall (WAF), DDoS protection, and SSL. Its WAF component protects web applications from the most critical web app security risks as identified by OWASP, including DDoS attack, SQL injection, and cross-site scripting....

Akamai Kona Site Defender

5 Ratings

Akamai offers their web application firewall and application security applications, including Kona Site Defender, a web application security platform designed to protect web and mobile assets from targeted web application attacks and DDoS attacks while improving performance.

FortiWeb

We don't have enough ratings and reviews to provide an overall score.

FortiWeb is Fortinet's web application security system (or web application firewall, WAF) featuring advanced vulnerability management and threat detection and prevention, available in deployment as an appliance or virtual appliance, also as a hosted or a cloud-based virtual solution.

PT Application Firewall

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Positive Technologies headquartered in Framingham offers the PT Application Firewall (AF), a web application firewall (WAF) which uses advanced machine learning and correlative techniques to detecting and prevent zero-day attacks on enterprise apps.

Radware AppWall

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Radware offers AppWall, a PCI compliant web application firewall (WAF) securing corporate networks and the cloud against web app attacks.

WAPPLES

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WAPPLES utilizes an intelligent detection engine to protect enterprise from advanced web-based attacks, including SQL injections, DDoS, and APTs. The vendor says that WAPPLES’ ease of deployment and low operational workload have been cited as main reasons for high customer satisfaction. WAPPLES i...