Inside the AI Threat Landscape: From Jailbreaks to Prompt Injections and Agentic AI Risks

AI has officially moved out of the novelty phase. What began with people messing around with LLM-powered GenAI tools for content creation has rapidly evolved into a complex web of agentic AI systems that form a critical part of the modern corporate landscape. However, this transformation has give...

Addressing API Security with NIST SP 800-228

According to the Wallarm Q1 2025 ThreatStats report, 70% of all application attacks target APIs. The industry can no longer treat API security as a sidenote; it’s time to treat it as the main event. NIST seems to be on board with this view, releasing the initial public draft of NIST SP 800-228, a...

Threat Replay Testing: Turning Attackers into Pen Testers

API security is no longer just a concern; it’s a critical priority for businesses. With APIs serving as the backbone of modern applications, they’ve become a primary target for attackers. While automated security testing tools help detect vulnerabilities, their limitations leave organizations...

Effective API Throttling for Enhanced API Security

APIs are the backbone of modern digital ecosystems, but their misuse can expose systems to cyber threats. Effective API throttling not only optimizes performance but also acts as a critical defense mechanism against abuse, such as denial-of-service attacks. Discover how this powerful strategy...

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...

What Is Network Availability?

Within the sphere of IT, 'network accessibility' is a term frequently used. Yet, does everyone understand its connotation? Simplistically put, network accessibility alludes to how readily a network or system can be accessed by its users. It quantifies to what extent a system is functioning and...

Fetching Full-Text Alert Data with the Wallarm API

A lot of information about detected malicious requests is already available in the Wallarm console UI. However, the search functionality of the Wallarm UI does not provide full visibility into every type of potential attack or full details of a particular alert. If this level of visibility is...

Exporting Nginx Access Logs to an ELK Cluster

The Wallarm WAF provides an organization with the ability to protect their applications and APIs against a wide range of attacks. However, an organization may wish to achieve a greater degree of visibility into attack traffic and alerts than is possible via the Wallarm user interface. The Wallarm...

Using Threat Modeling in Cybersecurity to Hunt and Remediate

Modern-day cyberattacks keep growing in sophistication and sheer volume. This dynamic makes it virtually impossible to detect and block all attacks using the traditional methods of comparing incoming requests to known attack signatures. To effectively operate in this new aggressive cyberthreat...

Why API Discovery Is the First Step to Securing AI

TL;DR AI risk doesn’t live in the model. It lives in the APIs behind it. Every AI interaction triggers a chain of API calls across your environment. Many of those APIs aren’t documented or tracked. That’s your real exposure. Shadow API discovery gives you visibility into those hidden endpoints, s...

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...

APIs Are the Retail Engine: How to Secure Them This Black Friday

Can you ever imagine the impact on your business if it went offline on Black Friday or Cyber Monday due to a cyberattack? Black Friday is the biggest day in the retail calendar. It’s also the riskiest. As you gear up for huge surges in online traffic, ask yourself: have you protected the APIs on...

Debunking API Security Myths

I recently sat down with Tejpal Garwhal, Application Security and DevSecOps Leader, for a conversation debunking some of the most common API security myths. From zombie endpoints to the limits of WAFS and gateways, we covered what’s really happening on the ground; and what security teams need to ...

Fail-Open Architecture for Secure Inline Protection on Azure

Every inline deployment introduces a tradeoff: enhanced inspection versus increased risk of downtime. Inline protection is important, especially for APIs, which are now the most targeted attack surface, but so is consistent uptime and performance. This is where a fail-open architecture comes in...

Unsolved Challenge: Why API Access Control Vulnerabilities Remain a Major Security Risk

Despite advancements in API security, access control vulnerabilities, such as broken object-level authentication BOLA and broken function-level authentication BFLA, remain almost impossible to detect. This blog will explore why these vulnerabilities are so difficult to detect, the limitations of...

AI Agents and API Security: The Hidden Risks Lurking in Your Business Logic

Modern organizations are becoming increasingly reliant on agentic AI, and for good reason: AI agents can dramatically improve efficiency and automate mission-critical functions like customer support, sales, operations, and even security. However, this deep integration into business processes...

API Security Is At the Center of OpenAI vs. DeepSeek Allegations

With a high-stakes battle between OpenAI and its alleged Chinese rival, DeepSeek, API security was catapulted to priority number one in the AI community today. According to multiple reports, OpenAI and Microsoft have been investigating whether DeepSeek improperly used OpenAI’s API to train its ow...

Context is King: Using API Sessions for Security Context

There’s no doubt that API security is a hot topic these days. The continued growth in API-related breaches and increase in publicized API vulnerabilities has pushed API security to the top of CISO’s lists. The tools in the market for API security still have room for improvement, of course. One of...

What Is Policy-as-Code

Decoding the Enigma: Policy-as-Code Explained The Information Technology IT sector can often feel like a maze of intricate jargon and theories. A phrase gaining traction in this field is Policy-as-Code PaC. However, what does Policy-as-Code entail? Let's demystify this enigma. Policy-as-Code...

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...

Is your org structure threatening your IT security infrastructure?

In a hyper-competitive environment, keeping up with customer usability demands often means adopting a hyper-agile development process. It’s a dangerous devil’s bargain. Security gets left on the cutting room floor in pursuit of highly responsive, first-to-market, code-to-customer feature flow...

Five Reasons Why I Joined Wallarm

By Johan Nordstrom The question of “what made you change jobs?” may be old, but the answer with my move to Wallarm is new and clear. I have a vision how to address the dynamic threat landscape of today and Wallarm’s innovative approach to security is in line with these ideas. In my 30 years caree...

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...

Attackers Don’t Need to Breach Your API -They’ll Breach the Tools That Touch It

The API supply chain is the new security blind spot. Attackers no longer need to breach your APIs directly; they can target the third-party services that connect to them. These unmanaged dependencies are now the shortest path to your sensitive data. The recent Mixpanel incident is a stark reminde...

OWASP Top 10 Business Logic Abuse: What You Need to Know

Over the past few years, API security has gone from a relatively niche concern to a headline issue. A slew of high-profile breaches and compliance mandates like PCI DSS 4.0 have woken security teams up to the reality that APIs are the front door to their data, infrastructure, and revenue streams...

API Attack Awareness: Business Logic Abuse — Exploiting the Rules of the Game

As Cybersecurity Awareness Month continues, we wanted to dive even deeper into the attack methods affecting APIs. We’ve already reviewed Broken Object Level Authentication BOLA, injection attacks, and authentication flaws; this week, we’re exploring business logic abuse BLA. Unlike technical flaw...

Most Common Types of Cyber Attacks

Pioneering Perspectives on Prevalent Cyber Threats for Beginners Delving into the technology-powered period, it's indispensable to perceive technology as more than just a tool. Indeed, it has become an essential aspect of our day-to-day activities. As we navigate this interconnected realm, it's...

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...

MTGOX: Crypto Failure is in the Name.

Understanding how cryptocurrency exchanges evolved into hacker fantasy islands is all in the name. MTGOX, a company remembered for the largest crypto breach in history, is an acronym for Magic The Gathering Online Exchange MTGOX. The absurd rise and fall of MTGOX is critical to understanding the...

Why API Security Is No Longer an AppSec Problem – And What Security Leaders Must Do Instead

APIs are one of the most important technologies in digital business ecosystems. And yet, the responsibility for their security often falls to AppSec teams – and that’s a problem. This organizational mismatch creates systemic risk: business teams assume APIs are “secured,” while attackers exploit...

2025 in Review: A Year of Smarter, Context-Aware API Security

As the year draws to a close, it’s worth pausing to look back on what has been an extraordinary year for Wallarm and, more importantly, for the businesses we protect. If 2024 was about laying the groundwork tracking API sessions to understand behavioral attacks, then 2025 was the year we built up...

API Attack Awareness: When Authentication Fails — Exposing APIs to Risk

Authentication issues seem like low-level attacks. But authentication today – especially API authentication – can be more difficult than people expect. Companies rely on APIs to carry sensitive information every day. If access to those APIs is not properly secured, all the sophisticated security...

API Attack Awareness: Broken Object Level Authorization (BOLA) – Why It Tops the OWASP API Top 10

For this Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we thought it important to draw attention to some of the most common and dangerous API vulnerabilities. This week, we’re starting with Broken Object Level Authorization BOLA. BOLA vulnerabilities top the OWASP API Top Ten. And for good reason: they’re...

Beyond Traditional Threats: The Rise of AI-Driven API Vulnerabilities

AI has had dramatic impacts on almost every facet of every industry. API security is no exception. Up until recently, defending APIs meant guarding against well-understood threats. But as AI proliferates, automated adversaries, AI-crafted exploits, and business logic abuse have complicated matter...

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Elasticidad de la nube

Descripción general de la elasticidad de la nube La flexibilidad es uno de los atributos cardinales de la informática en la nube, conocido formalmente como elasticidad de la nube. Este atributo es esencial en el campo de las tecnologías de la información, facilitando el ajuste fluido de los...

What is The Dark Web ?

The Undernet, a term frequently shrouded in enigma and often linked with unlawful activities, is a concealed segment of the digital world that is purposefully veiled and unreachable via regular internet browsers. This chapter aims to unveil the secrets of the Undernet, step by step demythifying i...

Security Architect Guide – Job Description and How to Become

Introduction In the steadily changing field of online protection, companies need thoroughly prepared staff to assist them with staying aware of their developing security needs. Associations that neglect to focus on these web security wind up paying the consequences for it. Things being what they...

Building Security into Cloud Native Apps with NGINX

Industries from hospitality to taxis/transportation and food delivery are being disrupted by new age companies like Airbnb, Uber and DoorDash that have a cloud-based software infrastructure as one of their main enablers. Why do all these new companies use cloud and what advantage does it give the...

Agent-to-Agent Attacks Are Coming: What API Security Teaches Us About Securing AI Systems

AI systems are no longer just isolated models responding to human prompts. In modern production environments, they are increasingly chained together – delegating tasks, calling tools, and coordinating decisions with limited or no human oversight. Almost all that communication happens through APIs...

Scaling API Security Without the Complexity: Lessons from Early Adopters

APIs are a blessing and a curse. They’re the backbone of the modern internet. They also expose complex behaviors that are often poorly documented, stitched together across legacy and cloud systems, and updated faster than security teams can review. Three key groups typically shoulder the burden o...

Security Assessor – Job Description and How to Become

Introduction It requires a ton of work to turn into a QSA and keep your affirmation. In truth, there is an enormous rundown of standards to meet to be thought of. What is a Cyber security control assessor? The Security Control Assessor SCA is a cybersecurity personnel that utilizes security testi...

CISO Spotlight: Lefteris Tzelepis on Leadership, Strategy, and the Modern Security Mandate

Lefteris Tzelepis, CISO at Steelmet /Viohalco Companies, was shaped by cybersecurity. From his early exposure to real-world attacks at the Greek Ministry of Defense to building and leading security programs inside complex enterprises, his career mirrors the evolution of the CISO role itself. Now ...

DORA: Strengthening Digital Resilience Through API Security

The Digital Operational Resilience Act DORA is one of the most significant cybersecurity regulations for financial institutions in the European Union EU. Failure to comply can have massive consequences, including financial penalties and forced operational downtime, meaning achieving DORA complian...

Definición de la tríada de la CIA. Ejemplos de confidencialidad, integridad y disponibilidad

Definición de la tríada de la CIA El Modelo AIC o la Triada AIC es una estrategia clave para abordar y coordinar las metodologías de resistencia cibernética. Este enfoque obedecer a tres conceptos clave: la Blindaje, Fidelidad y Accesibilidad. Cada uno de estos conceptos juega un papel determinan...

Ataque de puerta trasera

¿Qué es una puerta trasera? Un "Acceso Secreto" es una técnica que se utiliza para saltarse la autenticación usual en un sistema, producto o dispositivo. Muchas veces, los creadores de software hacen uso de estos accesos para entrar a programas o sistemas y llevar a cabo ajustes o actualizaciones...

Escalado automático

¿Qué es el escalamiento automático? El Auto-Scaling, o Escalado Dinámico, constituye una estrategia revolucionaria y efectiva para la ajustabilidad de los medios informáticos condicionada a las oscilaciones en las demandas presentes. Al garantizar la disponibilidad de los recursos informáticos...

Taming API Sprawl: Best Practices for API Discovery and Management

APIs are the backbone of interconnected applications, enabling organizations to innovate, integrate, and scale rapidly. However, as enterprises continue to expand their digital ecosystems, they often encounter a common and complex challenge: API sprawl. Unchecked, API sprawl can lead to increased...

CIRCIA – Ley de notificación de incidentes cibernéticos para infraestructuras críticas

¿Qué es CIRCIA? CIRCIA, o Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act, es una propuesta de ley que busca fortalecer la seguridad cibernética en los Estados Unidos. Esta legislación tiene como objetivo principal proteger la infraestructura crítica del país, como las redes eléctricas,...

Falla en la lógica empresarial

¿Qué son las fallas de la lógica empresarial? Las fallas de lógica empresarial, también conocidas como defectos de lógica empresarial, son errores en el diseño de un sistema o proceso que permiten a los usuarios realizar acciones que no deberían ser posibles. Estos errores no son el resultado de ...