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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

API Attack Awareness: Injection Attacks in APIs – Old Threat, New Surface

Injection attacks are among the oldest tricks in the attacker playbook. And yet they persist. The problem is that the core weakness, trusting user inputs too much, keeps resurfacing in new forms. As organizations have shifted to API-driven architectures and integrated AI systems that consume...

Reflecting on Wallarm’s Journey: Growth, Resilience, and What Comes Next

By Ivan Novikov and Stepan Ilyin When we started Wallarm, we focused on the APIs that power modern apps. We built an API-first platform, used AI from day one, and secured early patents in behavior-based detection and automated policy creation. The result: real-time, inline blocking with automatic...

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

AI Agent Security Readiness: The Federal Standard You Should Get Ahead Of

Here's the uncomfortable part first: in August 2026, researchers found AI agents connected to Hugging Face running loose inside enterprise networks. No owner, no audit trail, nobody who could tell you they existed until something broke. If that sentence made your stomach drop a little, good,...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

Why ArtsSEC decided to partner with Wallarm

by Maximiliano Soler, @maxisoler by Maximiliano Soller, CTO of ArtsSEC The greatest thing with partnerships is how well the organisations’ expertise complement each other. Our partnership with Wallarm has incredibly exceeded our expectations in their innovation and expertise in web application...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

What is WAN Acceleration?

Hook: Network Sluggish? Learn What WAN Acceleration Is Ever been in a virtual meeting that froze at the worst possible moment? Or had your staff grumble about slow data transfers that are as slow as molasses? If your answer is a weary "yes," it's high time to turn your eyes toward WAN Acceleratio...

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...

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...

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...

Protecting Against Bot-Enabled API Abuse

APIs have become the backbone of modern digital ecosystems, powering everything from mobile apps to e-commerce platforms. However, as APIs grow in importance, they also become prime targets for malicious actors. Increasingly, bots are being weaponized to exploit vulnerabilities, overwhelm systems...

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...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

Stop Reviewing Your AI Agents. Start Governing Them.

Brookings and the World Economic Forum say agent governance must be continuous, scoped in advance, evidenced, and monitored at runtime. We think that bar is correct, and that most organizations are nowhere near it. Most of what companies call AI agent governance today is paperwork. A review board...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...