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Wallarm NG WAF is ranked as a “High Performer” by G2, Spring 2021!
We are proud to announce that Wallarm NG WAF was ranked as a “High performer” by G2 in the Web Application Firewall category. This award from the G2 platform confirms that our solution is highly rated by current verified Wallarm WAF users, who left unbiased reviews and answers to WAF-related...
How To Protect Your Kubernetes Cluster with Wallarm – part 1 of 3
Kubernetes clusters enable an organization to easily take advantage of containerization. While this is a huge asset, it also creates security issues. Many organizations lack visibility into the applications within their Kubernetes cluster and their attack surface. Within a Kubernetes cluster, an...
Wallarm Podcast: Security Challenges of 2017 and Predictions for 2018
Right before Christmas, we have invited several security professionals to a roundtable event where we discussed how AI is affecting cybersecurity landscape. While we had them on as panelists, we have asked Richard Seiersen, Bill Chen and Sean Todd to share their views on the biggest security...
Security Operations (SecOps)
Understanding the Basics of Security Operations SecOps SecOps represents the blending of cybersecurity proficiency with operational domains, forming a powerful bulwark. Its primary mission lies in safeguarding the fundamental data assets and technological infrastructures of an organization. More...
What Is Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) ?
Unraveling the Mysteries Behind the Zero Trust Network Access ZTNA Paradigm Digital protection strategies have traditionally relied heavily on the concept of trust. However, these conventional notions, which assume a considerable measure of security within an organization's connectivity sphere,...
Azure CLI Code Injection CVE-2022-39327 hits 9.8/10 CVSS score
The most recent Azure CLI Code Injection vulnerability is a rare and dangerous case. It’s not often that the most popular cloud platform client is vulnerable to such critical issues as code injection. Regardless overall high risk of injections by OWASP Top 10 and OWASP API Security Top 10, code...
An Introduction to the Specifics of Start-Ups Security
Security probably would not be too interesting to you at all if you were a liquor store, restaurant, or work in similar sectors of the economy. However, security should definitely be a front-row concept if you are a start-up in the technology space or a business that depends on technology for...
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...
What You Should Know About Side-Channel Attacks, Like Meltdown
“The light is on in their window. They must be home.” This is a classic example of a side information channel. They didn’t TELL you they were home. But the side effect of them being home in the evening is the light in the window — which is how you’re pretty sure they are home even though this...
Fundamentals of GraphQL-specific attacks
GraphQL vs REST APIs Developers are constantly exploring new technologies that can improve the performance, flexibility, and usability of applications. GraphQL is one such technology that has gained significant attention for its ability to fetch data efficiently. Unlike the traditional REST API,...
CVE-2024-41110: Once Again, Docker Addresses API Vulnerability That Can Bypass Auth Plugins
Summary A significant vulnerability CVE-2024-41110 was recently discovered in Docker Engine version 18.09.1.Although the issue was identified and fixed in 2019, the patch did not apply to other major versions, resulting in regression. The vulnerability was assigned a CVSS score of 10 critical...
Dark Web Monitoring
Unveiling Dark Web Surveillance: Bolstering Internet Safety Journey with us into the unchartered territories of the internet, where a masked sector called the Dark Net thrives. This secret hub is notorious for harboring unlawful actions ranging from infringed identity to stolen data, bringing for...
Application Layer Gateway (ALG) Explained: What it is & Why You Need it ?
Snippet When you hear "Application Layer Gateway," or ALG for short, think of it as a network traffic conductor. It's the unsung hero that examines data packets, making sure they follow specific rules and get to where they're supposed to go—securely and efficiently. Quick Facts Definition In the...
2023 OWASP Top-10 Series: Wrap Up
Over the past several months, we've taken a journey through the new 2023 OWASP API Security Top-10 list. In the previous 12 weekly posts, we've delved into each category, discussed what it is, how it's exploited, why it matters, and suggested effective protections for each. Now, as we conclude th...
RSA 2020 – Must Visit
Visit Wallarm at RSA 2020 booth 4118 + see a list of other events going on during the conference for a richer experience The post RSA 2020 - Must Visit appeared first on Wallarm Blog...
Legacy WAF Issues
Traditional WAFs speak to bigger adoption problems for technologists, innovators, and businesses. Making a decision in today’s marketplace is like being a kid in a toy store. There are so many options that excitement quickly turns to settling on a familiar choice, so it’s no surprise that...
HealthTech Security and Compliance, the Practitioner View
A conversation with George Michelson, a long term executive of LiveWatch Services George, can you tell us a bit about yourself? I am an IT professional with over 25 years of experience spanning different industries. From 2008 to 2013 I was serving as a vice president of IT for LIfeWatch Services,...
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...
2023 OWASP Top-10 Series: API10:2023 Unsafe Consumption of APIs
Welcome to the 11th 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 API10:2023 Unsafe Consumption of APIs. In this series we are taking an in-depth look at each category – the details, the impact...
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...
How To Protect Your Kubernetes Cluster with Wallarm – Configuration and Finetuning – part 2 of 3
Wallarm’s Kubernetes Ingress controller is designed to help protect your Kubernetes cluster against cyberattacks. Its built-in web application firewall WAF is capable of detecting and blocking a wide range of common attacks against Kubernetes deployments. The previous article in this series...
Apache Solr 1,2,3,4 Kill-Chain.
One of the services Wallarm offers today are Pentest Audits. Our team has met a new challenging task at a recent project: penetration test & usage for Apache Solr V4.10.4. We want to use this blog to describe the way we have identified vulnerability & managed to execute commands with root...
How to protect web applications on Google Cloud Platform with WAF?
Many of the developers we speak to are interested in taking advantage of Google Compute Cloud for developing and hosting their web applications. The advantages are many from reasonable costs to built in scalability to high level of availability built right into the platform. However, the develope...
How to Prepare for a Cyberattack
Deciphering the Cyber Invasion Terrain We exist in an era deeply entrenched in digital dependence, where cyber invasions present significant risks for companies, government establishments, and solitary users. As we hurdle deeper into the digital era, the art of cyber misdemeanors continues to...
2023 OWASP Top-10 Series: API5:2023 Broken Function Level Authorization
Welcome to the 6th 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 API5:2023 Broken Function Level Authorization. In this series we are taking an in-depth look at each category – the details, the...
The Biggest Hacker Attacks on Gambling
Introduction With online gambling clubs turning into a staple alternative across nations like the United Kingdom, numerous sites are showing up out of nowhere and not all are protected or secure. Numerous club regulars pick to utilize correlation locales, as the UK gambling clubs recorded at...
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...
Key API Security Takeaways from the Postman 2025 State of API Report
API security has never been more important because modern APIs are operational necessities. Unfortunately, many organizations are failing to adapt their security models to a rapidly changing API threat landscape. Like it or not, we live in an AI-first world, and API security must reflect that...
Five Uncomfortable Truths About LLMs in Production
Many tech professionals see integrating large language models LLMs as a simple process -just connect an API and let it run. At Wallarm, our experience has proved otherwise. Through rigorous testing and iteration, our engineering team uncovered several critical insights about deploying LLMs secure...
Wallarm’s Crusade Against Rising Credential Stuffing Threats
Credential Stuffing, a vital yet often overlooked aspect of cybersecurity, needs to be addressed with urgency. An alarmingly large segment of the population engages in the risky habit of using the same password for various accounts. This behavior parallels the risk of using a universal key for...
What is User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) ?
As the digital world continually transforms at a rapid pace, the necessity for high-grade, reliable safety controls becomes even more crucial. Among a pool of security tactics and tools, User and Entity Behavior Analytics UEBA rises as a formidable measure to shield digital commodities. This...
2023 OWASP Top-10 Series: API9:2023 Improper Inventory Management
Welcome to the 10th 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 API9:2023 Improper Inventory Management. In this series we are taking an in-depth look at each category – the details, the impac...
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...
When your WAF needs its own WAF
Security products have their own security issues, which can affect products that they were designed to secure. It's not a recursive loop, but the reality. WAFs there are not an exclusion. You can remember CloudFlare self-DoS that happened last year...
Wallarm Teams up with NGINX Plus to Provide Advanced Security
Wallarm is excited to be a pioneer security vendor in NGINX Certified Module program and provide trusted and verified security functionality to NGINX Plus customers. “We are pleased to announce that Wallarm is now part of the NGINX Plus Certified Module program with the Wallarm Next Generation WA...
Lessons from the OpenAI and Hugging Face Incident: When Safety Filters Disarm the Defender
In July 2026, an OpenAI model escaped its evaluation sandbox and broke into Hugging Face's production infrastructure. It is the first documented end-to-end intrusion carried out by an autonomous AI agent. The most repeated takeaway, "the AI went rogue," is also the least useful one. The real...
IBM 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report: Lessons for API and AI Security
IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report offers one of the clearest and most comprehensive views yet of how AI adoption is shaping the security landscape. While breach numbers are relatively low – only 13% of organizations reported breaches involving AI models or applications – the report reveals ...
How to Protect Your Privacy Online
Decoding the Complexities of Digital Personhood and Its Private Aspects: Elemental Groundwork As we stride through this tech-propelled age, concerns related to internet-bound privacy have risen as pressing hurdles for all cyber inhabitants around the planet. Considering the ever-broadening spectr...
What is MDR ?
Gaining Insight: Decoding MDR's Functions As we navigate the continually evolving cybersecurity landscape, Managed Detection and Response MDR surfaces as a game-changing strategy. But, what does MDR truly signify? In its purest form, MDR marries technical expertise with sector-specific knowledge ...
Beware of BOLA (IDOR) Vulnerabilities in Web Apps and APIs
Introduction In a recent advisory, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA warned vendors, designers, developers, and end-user organizations of web applications about the dangers posed by Insecure Direct Object Reference IDOR vulnerabilities, now commonly referred to as BOLA...
Cybersecurity Engineer Guide – Job Description and How to Become
Introduction The interest for network security occupations is soaring, but the arrangement is at an incredible insufficient. Experts anticipate a 2021 increment of 3,500,000 empty web-based security occupations all over the planet, as shown by the New York Times. Essentially, there arent sufficie...
Wallarm launches Cloud WAF with the best-in-class API protection
An easy to use Cloud WAF and API protection package We are thrilled to announce the launch of the new Wallarm Cloud WAF deployment for Wallarm Cloud-Native Security Platform. Get your application protection up and running in 15 minutes, without any installation at all. You can now gain protection...
Protecting gRPC applications and APIs
Wallarm has always stood out from its competitors when it comes to supporting modern stacks. For a long time Wallarm has been the only product to provide comprehensive protection for WebSockets-based web applications. Once again, Wallarm is glad to be the pioneer and add support for the gRPC...
Key Considerations in API security
Every day, there are billions of API calls being executed. These include public APIs, private APIs, SaaS APIs, APIs performing mobile back-end functions and many more. Given the gravity of the threat and the sheer volume of what’s exposed, how do we develop systems that are both safe and robust?...
The API Imperative: Securing Agentic AI and Beyond
We recently released The Rise of Agentic AI, our API ThreatStats report for Q1 2025, finding that evolving API threats are fueled by the rise of agentic AI systems, growing complexity in cloud-native infrastructure, and a surge in software supply chain risks, and uncovered patterns and actionable...
Considerations for Selecting the Best API Authentication Option
Implementing API authentication is one of the most critical stages of API design and development. Properly implemented authentication protects data, user privacy, and other resources while streamlining compliance, preventing fraud, and establishing accountability. In fact, broken authentication i...
Evolution of Attack Surface Management
The Early Days: Basic Asset Management While it was not called ASM, the concept of managing attack surface management began with basic asset management practices in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Organizations focused on keeping an inventory of their digital assets, such as servers, desktops, an...
Top 4 Industries at Risk of Credential Stuffing and Account Takeover (ATO) attacks
All industries are at risk of credential stuffing and account takeover ATO attacks. However, some industries are at a greater risk because of the sensitive information or volume of customer data they possess. While cyber-attacks come in all forms and techniques, credential stuffing involves an...
ChatGPT Injection: a new type of API Abuse attack may steal your OpenAI API credits
ChatGPT is spreading like wildfire all over the internet, being used in everything from casual tools to cybersecurity and even industrial applications. Its so popular, I wouldnt be shocked if it starts running a nuclear power plant soon if it isnt already! Using OpenAIs ChatGPT-3.5, ChatGPT-4, an...
PCI Penetration Test – Everything You Need to Know
Introduction For any association that cycles, stores or sends charge card information, entrance testing has been a commitment since 2013. That is the point at which the consistence necessities set up by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council PCI SSC were refreshed to mirror the...