Securing Cloud-Native Applications

A conversation with Randy Bias Last week we were able to sit down with Randy Bias — a cloud pioneer and a technology visionary who currently oversees Juniper Networks cloud strategy. We have asked Randy to share his thoughts on the security of private and public clouds and specifically cloud-nati...

Improper Authorization in Confluence Data Center and Server (CVE-2023-22518)

In early November, the cybersecurity community witnessed the exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability in Confluence Data Center and Server. This critical vulnerability was related to Improper Authorization and assigned CVE-2023-22518 identifier. In this blog, we delve into the details of these...

Integrating API Security and WAF into K8s Kong API Gateway

Article by Jiju Jacob, Director of Engineering at Revenera This is an update of Mr. Jacobs’ 05/23 post in his Medium blog. He is a Director of Engineering at Revenera. Revenera, born as InstallShield and now a Flexera company, helps software and technology companies use open source solutions more...

Numbers game: Exploring IntegerOverflow vulnerability in a popular nginx web server.

By @aLLy , Wallarm Research There was a very interesting vulnerability discovered in nginx, one of the most popular web/proxy/load balancing servers. This vulnerability leaks information about the application behind the nginx proxy. For example, a specially formed request can retrieve information...

Defining Wallarm API-specific Rules

Case Study Using SugarCRM API As an Example 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 on where...

Wallarm team is growing!

Wallarm’s unique approach provides actionable insight that identifies and protects against real attacks and vulnerabilities. I’m excited to be part of the team that automates this for modern services and cloud-based applications. The post Wallarm team is growing! appeared first on Wallarm Blog...

Is your org structure threatening your IT security infrastructure?

5 Tips to Solve API Security Issues in Any IT Security Infrastructure Start listening. Integrating isn’t enough if your teams aren’t talking. In a hyper-competitive environment, keeping up with customer usability demands often means adopting a hyper-agile development process. It’s a dangerous...

How Security Edge Revolutionizes API Security

Wallarm’s Security Edge is setting a new standard in API security—far beyond the reach of traditional Content Delivery Networks CDNs. Let’s get it straight: Security Edge is not just a new addition to the API security market; it’s a disruption. Designed to deliver fast, effective, and advanced AP...

Act Now to Prepare for New NCUA Cyber Incident Reporting Requirements

We recently discussed the new SEC rule requiring all registered companies to report material cyber incidents within four 4 days. Now the National Credit Union Administration NCUA1 has updated their Cyber Incident Notification Rule, requiring all federally insured Credit Unions to notify the NCUA ...

What You Need To Know About MOVEit

The MOVEit Vulnerabilities and Latest Exploits. Impact On Governmental Agencies And Large Organizations Governmental agencies and large organizations around the world are being hit by ransomware attacks exploiting several vulnerabilities in MOVEit, a widely used file transfer solution. The...

8 Tips and Best Practices to Build a Solid Cloud Migration Strategy for 2019

Here are eight fool-proof practices that can help you move your workloads to the cloud. A quick look at cloud migration. Cloud migration involves moving an organization’s data storage and IT operations to a cloud network. Cloud computing services are hosted in a multi-tenant environment and can b...

Unpacking the Zimbra Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (CVE-2023-37580)

Insights and Protections On November 16, 2023, a significant security concern was published by Google's Threat Analysis Group TAG. They revealed an alarming vulnerability in Zimbra Collaboration, a widely-used email hosting tool for organizations. This vulnerability, designated with an identifier...

Wallarm at Black Hat USA 2022

Black Hat USA is celebrating its 25th anniversary, and Wallarm will be on hand for the festivities. If you’re headed to Vegas this year, we invite you to meet our crew and talk about API security. Tuesday 08/09 – Pre-Event Evening Party Join us on Tuesday 08/09 evening at the Emerging Technology...

Grammarly fixed XSS vulnerability that bypasses AWS WAF

Grammarly is the unicorn company that announced its open bug bounty program last September. Since that time, many security researchers posted their submissions and got paid well. Some of Grammarlys issues are also useful for others. Like the recent XSS, that also bypasses an AWS WAF. The recent X...

Wallarm goes to Singapore

By Leonid iaitskyi. — Own work., CC BY-SA 3.0, What: Hack In The Box GSEC SINGAPORE 2017 When: August 21st — 25th 2017 Where: InterContinental Singapore Why go: REASON 1: Meet Wallam and find out how to extend your security team with AI REASON 2: Go to the talk by Ivan Novikov and find what the...

Tools to address OWASP Top 10 Risks

In a recent article published by Security Boulevard. we talked about OWASP Top 10 Risk classification and overlap. In this post, we will look into the tools that may help address these risks. To understand what’s possible to cover with which protection mechanisms we can now color-code our OWASP...

Welcome, Brooke Motta!

By Ivan Novikov I am excited to announce a great addition to our Go-To-Market team. Brooke Motta has joined Wallarm as Vice President of Sales. Brooke brings 15 years of Cyber Security Sales Experience to the team. She has experience selling up and down the organization from an individual securit...

“Fire Danger Rating” on “High” in Security Climate

November was a scary month in California. After four years of drought, the forests and towns in the northern part of the state exploded into wildfires, displacing thousands of residents and destroying millions of dollars of property. The foul air in San Francisco and the surrounding areas was a...

Wallarm NG-WAF is Now a Part of Kong Hub to Provide Better Protection for Microservices, APIs and…

Wallarm NG-WAF is Now a Part of Kong Hub to Provide Better Protection for Microservices, APIs and Serverless Thousands of companies from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises use Kong as their API gateway. With a blazingly fast performance, it comes with a perfect feature set for everyone who manag...

6 Lessons Security Leaders Must Learn About AI and APIs

Most organizations treating AI security as a model problem are defending the wrong layer. Security teams filter prompts, patch jailbreaks, and tune model behavior, which is all necessary work, while the actual attack surface sits largely unexamined underneath. That surface is the API layer: the...

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...

What The Actual WAF!?

InfoSec Family, we need to talk!! Every so often, there is a technological shift in the information security industry. Sometimes it is due to new cyberattack discovery, aka a Zero-day. Many times, the catalyst is legacy technology. When a legacy technology no longer adequately responds to the...

Happy graduation, Envoy!

Envoy, the new darling of the DevOps community, performs the role of a service and edge proxy. With advanced features such as timeouts, rate limiting, circuit breaking, load balancing, retries, stats, logging, and distributed tracing are required to handle network failures in a fault tolerant and...

Wallarm at Black Hat USA 2023 Booth #3131

Wallarm is excited to be back at Black Hat USA this year and meet with our friends in the community wanting or perhaps needing to learn more about integrated web app and API protection. We look forward to seeing you there! Expo Hours If you’re attending in person, the Business Hall is open for tw...

What ChatGPT know about API Security?

There is no doubt that you heard about and seen the latest OpenAIs brilliant called ChatGPT. It can write poems, speak many languages, answer questions, play chess, make code and impress everyone. In this post, we show a few more of how this AI model is good in cybersecurity, in particular in API...

5 Themes for Product Security and Fostering Organizational Growth

In this article we would like to review what Raj Umadas, Product Security Manager at Compass, has shared during our recent webinar highlighting recurring themes that have led to impactful collaborations and organizational risk reduction. Product security ProdSec is crucial in the process of growi...

Yii2 Gii Remote Code Execution

This article is written specifically for web developers who use a module. We will tell you how we got access to sensitive data on a staging server through Yii2 Gii Remote Code: First to the testing environment, and then to the production. Spoiler: We have notified the module developer about the...

OWASP API Top 10 Projects: Highlights and Overview

In addition to the same risks that web applications are exposed to, APIs are faced with a number of unique security risks and vulnerabilities. This blogs provides an overview of the new OWASP API Top 10 risk project. The post OWASP API Top 10 Projects: Highlights and Overview appeared first on...

How to use a single download to remotely steal proprietary files from MacOS

by Anton Lopanitsyn Wallarm Research Team Imaging a scary scenario: you open a simple html document, and after a little while, your proprietary files unbeknownst to you find their way to somebody else’s hard drive… Documents, source code, SSH keys, passwords…All the files you, the authorized user...

2023 OWASP Top-10 Series: Spotlight on Injection

Welcome to the 12th post in our weekly series on the new 2023 OWASP API Security Top-10 list, with a particular focus on security practitioners. In this series we are taking an in-depth look at each category – the details, the impact and what you can do about it. To see previous posts you might...

Quick tip: Watch out — restriction by location can be circumvented.

by @Andrey Danau, Wallarm Research If you are like many app developers, you may be using nginx or apache proxy or a web server on the front end of your application. If you are on a tight schedule, it is tempting to tie authorization and data controls simply to the locations defined in the front...

What Is Multi-Homing?

Decoding the Term: Deciphering the Significance of Multi-Homing? The term multi-homing, in the realm of computer networking, finds itself surrounded by considerable confusion owing to its multifaceted technical nuances. Nevertheless, it stands as a pillar of network security and dependability...

What Is Microservices Architecture

Mastering the Essential Elements of Services-Focused Programming The methodology of programming using tiny, interdependent software units, often simplified to 'Microservices', has seen a marked uptick in usage in recent times. This distinct architectural paradigm shapes an application as a group ...

What is a Cloud Native Application Protection Platform CNAPP ?

Revealing the Secrets of the Cloud-specific Application Safety Platform CSASP In the landscape of online safety, the notion of the Cloud-specific Application Safety Platform CSASP is something relatively unheard of, but rapidly gaining popularity. Intuitively from its name, CSASP is a system...

Find APIs Hiding in the Shadows

What’s hiding in the shadows? It’s a well understood reality that unmanaged IT assets tend to be unmonitored IT assets, and that both introduce risk. Whether it’s a forgotten about application, or an unmanaged cloud storage volume, you can’t protect what you don’t know about. Attackers thrive on...

4 DevOps Strategies to Boost Your Security

DevSecOps is more than a corporate buzzword. As a combined term, DevSecOps bears out the interdependence of responsibilities that lead to security transformation from a fixed set of inflexible tools into security as a process. The post 4 DevOps Strategies to Boost Your Security appeared first on...

Wallarm joins CNCF to promote Kubernetes security

Wallarm has recently joined the Linux Foundation and its sister organization, Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Wallarm will be contributing its AI/ML security expertise within the LF and CNCF communities to support the sustainability and adoption of open source technologies. Wallarm and its...

The First Step-by-Step Guide for Implementing Neural Architecture Search with Reinforcement…

The First Step-by-Step Guide for Implementing Neural Architecture Search with Reinforcement Learning Using TensorFlow Our team is no stranger to various flavors of AI including deep learning DL. That’s why we’ve immediately noticed when Google came out with AutoML project, designed to make AI bui...

Two of Wallarm’s Open-source Tools Have Been Accepted into Black Hat Arsenal 2024

We're gearing up with some seriously cool stuff for Black Hat! But first, a little sneak peek - not just one, but TWO of Wallarm's open-source tools will be featured in the Arsenal showcase at Black Hat USA this year. Black Hat Arsenal unites researchers and the open-source community to display...

Richard Seiersen, CISO of Twilio, Joins Wallarm Board of Advisers

We are excited to welcome Richard Seiersen to Wallarm advisory team. Richard brings tons of security experience from both start-ups and global companies and unique views on making the impact of security measurable. We have asked Richard to share some of his thoughts on what’s important in cyber...

Wallarm’s Open Source API Firewall debuts at Blackhat Asia 2024 – Introduces Key New Features & Functionalities

Wallarm introduced its ongoing Open Source API Firewall project to the world at the recently concluded Blackhat Asia 2024 conference in Singapore. The open-source API Firewall by Wallarm is a free, lightweight API Firewall designed to protect REST and GraphQL API endpoints across cloud-native...

The Other Crowdstrike Outage

On July 19, 2024, a flawed update in CrowdStrike Falcon's channel file 291 led to a logic error that caused Windows systems to crash, resulting in widespread BSOD Blue Screen of Death incidents. The impact was severe, disrupting critical infrastructure globally, from grounded flights to halted...

API Abuse – Lessons from the Duolingo Data Scraping Attack

It’s been reported that 2.6 million user records sourced from the Duolingo app are for sale. The attacker apparently obtained them from an open API provided by the company. There’s a more technical explanation available here. While we talk a lot about the vulnerabilities in the OWASP API Top-10 a...

Dell Data Breach: Personal Information of 49 Million Customers Compromised due to latest API Abuse

Dell recently issued a notice regarding a data breach that occurred on May 9, which has reportedly affected over 49 million customers across the globe. According to a report by BleepingComputer, Dell initiated the distribution of notifications cautioning its customers that their personally...

TensorFlow Dataset API for increasing training speed of neural networks

by M.Salnikov, Wallarm Research Wallarm AI engine is the heart of our security solution. Two key parameters of our AI engine efficiency are how fast neural networks can be train to reflect the updated training sets and how much compute power need to be dedicated to the training on the on-going...

Wallarm Joins NVIDIA AI Virtual Accelerator

We are thrilled to announce that Wallarm has joined the NVIDIA Inception program, which is designed to nurture startups revolutionizing industries with advancements in AI and data sciences. NVIDIA’s Inception program is a virtual accelerator that helps startups during critical stages of product...

How to Build a Cybersecurity Culture in Your Company

Decoding the Essential Components of Cyber Safeguard Culture In today's era, marked by copious dependencies on digital technologies, strengthening defenses against digital security vulnerabilities has become more than just a choice, it's a critical necessity. Establishing a culture of cyber...

Neatly bypassing CSP

How to trick CSP in letting you run whatever you want By bo0om, Wallarm research Content Security Policy or CSP is a built-in browser technology which helps protect from attacks such as cross-site scripting XSS. It lists and describes paths and sources, from which the browser can safely load...

Unlocking Seamless API Security: Revenera’s Journey with Wallarm

In today's digital landscape, ensuring the security of web applications and APIs is paramount. The journey to find the right security solution can be filled with challenges and choices. In this blog post, we'll dive into the experience of Rob Davies, VP of Engineering and Lead Architect at...

What does Zero Trust mean for API security?

The old mentality of building a moat around important assets and trusting anyone or anything that is already inside the castle perimeter has failed us. Attackers have developed many techniques to jump the moat and scale the castle walls to get at what they want. Thus, the new rallying cry is to...