API Gateways and API Protection: What’s the Difference?

Modern businesses are increasingly reliant on APIs. They are the building blocks facilitating data exchange and communication between disparate systems. Because of their prevalence and importance, they are also under attack by actors exploiting vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. Unauthorized...

Mastercard Cybersecurity

Safeguarding Trade: Discovering the World of Mastercard Digital Guardrails In our tech-driven era, it is vitro important that financial dealings are shielded competently. A colossal number of exchanges are happening each day, proving the ever growing necessity of sturdy digital protective measure...

What Is Network Detection and Response (NDR)?

Network Detection and Response NDR: Demystifying the Basics The Internet Security Tool known as Network Analysis and Immediate Action NAIA signifies a transformational step in cyber protection. This innovative framework fuses the power of artificial intelligence and the predictive prowess of...

Incident Response Plan: Frameworks and Steps

Gaining Insight: The Imperative for an Electronic Threat Handling Framework As we traverse further into the digital era, the threat of cyber encroachments elevates consistently. This looming risk is a reality for all, from emergent startups to well-established corporations, placing operations in...

Information Security Analyst – Job Description and How to Become

Introduction A security expert is a wide work term that alludes to persons who keep up with the security of PC frameworks and organizations. Let us go through an information security analyst jobs description What is an information security analyst? Huge data breaks at colossal associations have a...

Exploiting Oracle WebLogic by Remote Code Execution with a /console endpoint restricted

This article explains how to exploit Oracle WebLogic for remote code execution by using valid credentials. Its useful during black-box security audits, pentests, and infrastructure audits, including automated vulnerability scanning. To set up an example playground, we will use the following docke...

Protect your Helm chart bundled application with Wallarm WAF. 10-minutes configuration for continuous and enhanced security

Every application has its own specific goals, critical aspects, and needs. So, the logical conclusion would be that every app needs an in-depth manual configuration, right? Well, here at Wallarm, we’re security experts and developers from the real world, and we know that in many cases time,...

Shift to Microservices: Evolve Your Security Practices & Container Security

Understand the best practices of shifting left to change your DevOps into DevSecOps. Your security health will get a serious boost. The post Shift to Microservices: Evolve Your Security Practices & Container Security appeared first on Wallarm Blog...

Frenemy at the Gates: The Breaching

Online businesses have to be careful. It’s a dangerous world, full of anonymous people and services wearing digital skins. It sounds horrific because it is. On the other side of a transaction, could be anyone. Extra measures have to be made to secure web interfaces and API endpoints that online...

Visit Wallarm at AWS re:Invent 2017

Wallarm will present its Application Security solutions at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas November 27 through December 1st. As a leading provider of AI-driven application security, Wallarm is helping customers running on AWS to implement application security. Wallarm solutions includes high-performan...

The CISO’s Dilemma: How To Scale AI Securely

Your board wants AI. Your developers are building with it. Your budget committee is asking for an ROI timeline. But as CISO, you're the one who has to answer when the inevitable question comes up: "How do we know this is secure?" If you're like most security leaders, you're caught between two...

Wallarm Halts Remote Code Execution Exploits: Defense for Vulnerable React Server Component Workflows

On December 3, 2025, React maintainers disclosed a critical unauthenticated remote code execution RCE vulnerability in React Server Components RSC, tracked as CVE-2025-55182. A working PoC was released publicly, and Wallarm immediately began observing widespread exploitation attempts across...

CISO Spotlight: Rick Bohm on Building Bridges, Taming AI, and the Future of API Security

Nestled in a log cabin high in the Rocky Mountains, Rick Bohm starts his day the same way he’s approached his career: intentionally, with a quiet commitment to learning and action. Boasting more than three decades of cybersecurity experience, Rick has watched tech evolve from dial-up ISPs to...

CISO: funciones y responsabilidades laborales 🛡️

Significado de CISO En el ámbito corporativo, CISO es un acrónimo ampliamente reconocido que denota a "Chief Information Security Officer", que se puede interpretar en español como el Encargado Principal de Salvaguardar la Información. Este encargo representa una posición esencial en el organigra...

What is Blackcat Ransomware

Begin This Exploration: Unraveling the Mysteries of PantheraNegra Malware As new forks in the road of online threats emerge, an innovative peril has cast its shadow in the digital landscape – a danger we have identified as PantheraNegra Malware. What sets PantheraNegra Malware apart? Let's unrave...

Malware Analyst – Job Description and How to Become

Introduction Malware investigation is the review or cycle of deciding the usefulness and possible effect of a given malware like an infection, worm, trojan, rootkit, or secondary passage. Malware or malignant programming is any PC programming planned to hurt the host working framework or to take...

How To Protect Your Kubernetes Cluster with Wallarm – Running in Production Mode – part 3 of 3

The previous two blog articles in this series describe how to set up Wallarm Ingress controller and configure it so that it can properly allow or block traffic from trusted or suspicious/malicious IP addresses. This is essential to the functionality of Wallarm’s Ingress controller but it isn’t...

Wallarm Finalist at 2017 Red Herring Top 100 North America

LOS ANGELES — 6.06.2017 — Wallarm has been selected as a finalist for Red Herring’s Top 100 North America award, one of the technology industry’s most prestigious prizes. Finalists for the awards are among the continent’s brightest and most innovative private ventures. Their place among North...

CISO Spotlight: Craig Riddell on Curiosity, Translation, and Why API Security is the New Business Imperative

It’s an unusually cold winter morning in Houston, and Craig Riddell is settling into his new role as Wallarm’s Global Field CISO. It’s a position that suits him down to the ground, blending technical depth, empathy, business acumen, and, what Craig believes, the most underrated skill in...

From Agent2Agent Prompt Injection to Runtime Self-Defense: How Wallarm Redefines Agentic AI Security

Is an AI-to-AI attack scenario a science fiction possibility only for blockbusters like the Terminator series of movies? Well, maybe not! Researchers recently discovered that one AI agent can “inject malicious instructions into a conversation, hiding them among otherwise benign client requests an...

CISO Spotlight: AJ Debole on the Business-Tech Divide, Breach Readiness, and AI Risks

AJ Debole is Field CISO at Oracle, but her journey began far from the corporate boardroom. After starting out in law and government, she moved into healthcare and cyber defense, where she led teams through ransomware crises. In this spotlight, she explores the next wave of challenges – aligning...

What CISA’s BOD 25-01 Means for API Security and How Wallarm Can Help

The US government has taken another significant step towards strengthening cloud security with the release of CISA’s Binding Operational Directive BOD 25-01. Aimed at improving the security posture of federal cloud environments, BOD 25-01 mandates robust configuration, visibility, and control...

API Armor: How Bybit’s Real-Time Blacklisting Is Thwarting a $1.5B Crypto Heist

APIs present a security risk—that much is a given. Attacks on APIs have caused some of the most significant security incidents of the past decades. But the question now is: How can we flip the script and leverage their power to enhance security? Bybit might just have the answer. Bybit—one of the...

AI-Powered APIs: Expanding Capabilities and Attack Surfaces

AI and APIs have a symbiotic relationship. APIs power AI by providing the necessary data and functionality, while AI enhances API security through advanced threat detection and automated responses. In 2023, 83% of Internet traffic traveled through APIs, but there was a 21% increase in API-related...

Reducing False Positives in API Security: Advanced Techniques Using Machine Learning

False positives in API security are a serious problem, often resulting in wasted results and time, missing real threats, alert fatigue, and operational disruption. Fortunately, however, emerging technologies like machine learning ML can help organizations minimize false positives and streamline t...

How to Implement a Secure Incident Response Plan

Understanding the Basics of Secure Incident Response Plan A proactive strategy for coping with digital dangers calls for a well-planned process that can neutralize and diminish the harmful aftermath of unauthorized intrusion attempts and neglect of security principles. The primary aim of this...

DEEP WEB VS DARK WEB

Let's Plunge Further: Steering through the Twists and Turns of the Invisible Web and Shadow Web Think of the internet as an unbounded digital cosmos; our daily interaction only grazes the surface. Dwelling beneath tiers of commonly visited websites is a complex maze of data, christened the...

Maximizing Performance with Wallarm Filtering Nodes in Amazon’s Global Infrastructure

Introduction In todays digital landscape, ensuring the security and performance of web applications is paramount. To achieve optimal protection against cyber threats, organizations deploy web application and API protection WAAPs like Wallarm. However, to truly leverage the benefits of Wallarm,...

An Analog Approach to Secure Operations in Kubernetes

Security is not something you achieve. It's something you continually take care of and understand as constantly transforming. Here are our tips about your K8s cybersecurity The post An Analog Approach to Secure Operations in Kubernetes appeared first on Wallarm Blog...

Autoscaling Wallarm Nodes in AWS, GCP, and Azure

Newly updated Wallarm Node images now natively support autoscaling capabilities in AWS, GCP, and Azure. Updated images are already available in cloud provider marketplaces and can rely on the native auto-scaling to adjust the number of nodes based on traffic, CPU load, and other parameters. What ...

Defining Wallarm API-specific Rules

Automatically Detect + Parse and Set Your Own Rules A unique Wallarm AI feature is its ability to automatically detect and parse complicated API protocols and then set up security rules based on specific data or parameters deep inside the API. Once parsed, the system creates the rules-based both ...

The Hidden Costs of API Breaches: Quantifying the Long-Term Business Impact

API attacks can be costly. Really costly. Obvious financial impacts like legal fines, stolen finances, and incident response budgets can run into the hundreds of millions. However, other hidden costs often compound the issue, especially if you’re not expecting them. This article will explore the...

Beyond Passwords: Advanced API Authentication Strategies for Enhanced Security

Passwordless authentication for end users is taking the world by storm, offering organizations and individuals alike unprecedented security, user experience, and efficiency benefits. By all indications, the next generation of authentication for end users has finally arrived, sending the password...

Chicago API Security Summit 2024

Thank You Chicago! Earlier this week we had the pleasure of hosting a regional API Security Summit in Chicago well, actually in Lombard. These summits bring together the local cybersecurity community for half-day of API Security-focused content, including expert speakers and panelists. While this...

SOA VS MICROSERVICES – What’s the difference?

Unraveling the Code Landscape: Exploring SOA and Microservices Seamlessly The shifting sands of software development have elevated two pivotal architecture designs to influential pedestals: The Service-Oriented Architecture SOA and Microservices. Understanding their distinct characteristics,...

What is SSL/TLS ?

In the intricate tapestry of the digital world, threads of information interweave, forming connections, enabling interactions, and crafting narratives. Amidst this, a silent protector—SSL/TLS—ensures that the stories told are safeguarded, secure, and sincere. This comprehensive guide unravels the...

2023 OWASP Top-10 Series: API3:2023 Broken Object Property Level Authorization

Welcome to the 4th post in our weekly series on the new 2023 OWASP API Security Top-10 list, with a particular focus on security practitioners. This post will focus on API3:2023 Broken Object Property Level Authorization. In this series we are taking an in-depth look at each category – the detail...

What stealthy attacks are hiding in API data — and why do most WAF miss them?!

Is JSON really more secure than other data encoding formats? JSON is a serialization format that allows users to 1 send objects as strings and then 2 it sends applications to recover objects from those strings. So, the short answer is that the JSON format as dangerous as other serialization...

AI Control Platform vs. AI Firewall vs. AI Gateway: Clearing Up The Terminology

Editor's note: This article was originally published by Tim Erlin on LinkedIn. It has been republished here with the author's permission. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-control-platform-vs-firewall-gateway-clearing-up-tim-erlin-ypodc It seems like every security vendor now sells "AI security."...

AWS Outage: Lessons Learned

What can we learn from the recent AWS outage, and how can we apply those lessons to our own infrastructure? What Happened? On October 20, 2025 , AWS experienced a major disruption that rippled across the internet and social media, affecting widely used services such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Slac...

The API Security Reality Check: Key Takeaways from Q2 2025 API ThreatStats Report

API security has never been more crucial. Vulnerabilities are growing in volume and severity. AI integrations are a burgeoning attack vector. Increasing GraphQL adoption presents hidden dangers. To protect your organization, you must secure your APIs. Keep reading for our key takeaways from the...

Unit Testing Frameworks: A Quick Comparison

Stepping Forward in Understanding Software Unit Evaluation Venturing into the realm of software creation, emphasizing quality takes center stage. This gold standard governs aspects such as operational capabilities, dependability, and the overall performance of your software. Regular assessments, ...

Security Software Developer – Job Description and How to Become One

Introduction The cybersecurity industry is daily growing bigger daily and creating numerous roles for anyone to specialize in. One of the eye-catching perks of the industry is the annual pay which varies according to the role. This guide focuses on teaching a security software developer job...

340 weak JWT secrets you should check in your code

JSON Web Token JWT is the data format with bill-in signature and encryption mechanisms that are often used by modern web applications to store user sessions and application context, including authentication by SSO and meta-data. Usually, you can find JWT tokens in an Authentication Bearer HTTP...

Protect your Helm chart bundled application with Wallarm WAF. 10-minutes configuration for continuous and enhanced security

Every application has its own specific goals, critical aspects, and needs. So, the logical conclusion would be that every app needs an in-depth manual configuration, right? Well, here at Wallarm, we’re security experts and developers from the real world, and we know that in many cases time,...

How to easily protect any Kubernetes application?

The king of container orchestration needs the best security companion: Wallarm WAF. When it comes to speed, portability, and the advantages of microservices architecture, no other product can compete with Kubernetes as a container orchestrator. Nevertheless, even the best solutions have challenge...

WAF-Based Attacks & The Future of Security

Understand WAFs and cybersecurity. Recent WAF-based breaches with CapitalOne, Imperva, and Cloudflare offer essential lessons we can learn from where WAF technology is failing us and what can we do to improve our security. The post WAF-Based Attacks & The Future of Security appeared first on...

Choose the right ingress controller for your Kubernetes environment

Choosing the right ingress controller can help you ensure the right infrastructure, direction, and level of customization. Get the information about ingress controllers you need. The post Choose the right ingress controller for your Kubernetes environment appeared first on Wallarm Blog...

From Shadow APIs to Shadow AI: How the API Threat Model Is Expanding Faster Than Most Defenses

The shadow technology problem is getting worse. Over the past few years, organizations have scaled microservices, cloud-native apps, and partner integrations faster than corporate governance models could keep up, resulting in undocumented or shadow APIs. We’re now seeing this pattern all over aga...

2026 API and AI Security Predictions: What Experts Expect in the Year Ahead

This is a predictions blog. We know, we know; everyone does them, and they can get a bit same-y. Chances are, you’re already bored with reading them. So, we’ve decided to do things a little bit differently this year. Instead of bombarding you with just our own predictions, we’ve decided to cast t...