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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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,...

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,...