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...

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...

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...

API Security’s Role in Responsible AI Deployment

By now, you will almost certainly be aware of the transformative impact artificial intelligence AI technologies are having on the world. What you may not be aware of, however, is the role Application Programming Interfaces APIs are playing in the AI revolution. The bottom line is that APIs are...

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...

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...

Q3-2022 API ThreatStats™ Report

The latest quarterly review and analysis of API vulnerabilities and exploits is in. Our initial take had us thinking it was smooth sailing for the state of API vulnerabilities in Q3—or was it just a lull in the storm? As it turns out, it’s neither. Read on to learn more about Wallarm’s analysis o...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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?...

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...

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...

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...

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 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 ...

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...

What are JWT Injections, and Why do You Need to Know About Them

JSON Web Tokens JWTs for short are the new standard for transmitting identity information in the digital age. JWTs are JSON objects that act as an identifier for your user or application. They’re used to authenticate users and securely transmit secrets as part of an API, application, or service...

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...

Meet JWT heartbreaker, a Burp extension that finds thousands weak secrets automatically

In the recent post https://lab.wallarm.com/340-weak-jwt-secrets-you-should-check-in-your-code/, we presented a wallarm/jwt-secrets GitHub repository with a 340 JSON Web Token secrets available publicly. Using this data, its possible to check if you or your developers forgot to change default...

The Evolution of Cyber Defense

To my knowledge, the first reference to the idea and principles of signatures for detecting network attacks dates back to 1987. This was a scientific paper by Dorothy E. Denning from Stanford Research Institute SRI Heres the link to the paper. According to the publication’s records, it was sent t...

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...

New Wallarm Dashboard

There is an update in the Wallarm Console, which presents a brand new dashboard that can’t be missed. There are three significant changes that are worth mentioning: New structure. The dashboard has a new, clear structure emphasizing multiple modules of the Wallarm Platform — WAF, Scanner, FAST. T...

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...

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...

What is Recovery Time Objective (RTO)?

Grasping the Technique: The Often Misconstrued 'RTO' Unravelled in the Sphere of Business Resiliency At the heart of organisational durability and a tactical roadmap directing towards reestablishing regular operations post-disruptions, lies the often misrepresented 'Recovery Time Objective' RTO...

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...

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...

E-commerce under Brute-Force attacks: how Wallarm stops it

Most of the Wallarm e-commerce customers are running WAF protection with Brute-Force attacks protection functionality The post E-commerce under Brute-Force attacks: how Wallarm stops it appeared first on Wallarm...

Wallarm Recognized on CRN 2018 Emerging Vendor List

We are delighted to share that CRN® has named Wallarm to its 2018 Emerging Vendors List in the Security Category category. The complete Emerging Vendors list will be featured online at www.crn.com/emergingvendor. This list recognizes up-and-coming technology suppliers who are shaping the future o...

Horror Stories and Scarecrows of 2017

It is that time of year again when we collectively conjure up ghosts, witches, monsters and other frightening characters for Halloween chills. As children, these scary fiends may have terrified us, but not so much anymore. Yet as adults, we certainly have genuine horror stories that keep us awake...

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...

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...

Top 6 Data Breaches That Cost Millions

“If you put a key under the mat for the cops, a burglar can find it, too. Criminals are using every technology tool at their disposal to hack into people’s accounts. If they know there’s a key hidden somewhere, they won’t stop until they find it.” - Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Inc. The entire digital...

Addressing the Rising Threat of API Leaks

In the realm of cybersecurity, the metaphor of "Leaky Buckets" has become an increasingly prevalent concern, particularly in the context of API security. This term encapsulates the hidden vulnerabilities and exposures in API infrastructures that many organizations struggle to identify and address...

What is a Network Management Station (NMS) ?

The Bedrock of the Network Coordination Hub NCH Delving into the substantial domain of digital networks, the Network Coordination Hub NCH is unveiled as a critical component ensuring fluid network operations. Let us unravel this concept - an NCH signifies a control console employed for supervisin...

What Is mTLS? The Essential Guide You Can’t Afford to Miss

Intro: mTLS — The Unsung Hero of Cybersecurity Picture this: You're a secret agent on a high-stakes mission. You have a briefcase full of confidential information that you need to hand over securely. Sure, you could pass it to another agent, but how do you know you can trust them? Here's where mT...

OWASP API Security Top-10 for 2023 Risk Ratings

As you know by now, the final version of the OWASP API Security Top-10 2023 has been released. At first blush, the final 2023 release seems to retain most of the changes in category naming, language and intent from the 2019 edition which we saw in the RC version. In this post, we are going to...

Exploiting Oracle WebLogic by Remote Code Execution with a /console endpoint restricted

This article explains how to exploit Oracle WebLogic for remote code execution by using valid credentials. Its useful during black-box security audits, pentests, and infrastructure audits, including automated vulnerability scanning. To set up an example playground, we will use the following docke...

Native integrations in Wallarm WAF

How to configure sending reports to email? How to get a notification to the messenger about an event requiring a response? How to connect Wallam and other solutions that use DevOps and the security team? Integrations will help to solve all these issues in Wallam WAF. And today we'll talk about th...

It’s Not Magic — It’s AI

New Whitepaper On How Wallarm AI Works “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” Arthur C. Clarke Ever wanted to look under the covers of deep learning/artificial intelligence engine? While deep learning algorithms are generally based on neurons combined into a neura...

The power of Wallarm search engine

In this article I would like to show and explain my personal use cases of the Wallarm search engine. The cool thing about it is human readable search with intuitive commands. Just look at this search command before we start: attacks incidents vulns today RCE 502 For a security engineer looking at...

AI Security is API Security: What CISOs and CIOs Need to Know

Just when CIOs and CISOs thought they were getting a grip on API security, AI came along and shook things up. In the past few years, a huge number of organizations have adopted AI, realizing innumerable productivity, operational, and efficiency benefits. However, they’re also having to deal with...

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...

Unveiling Top API Vulnerabilities and Emerging Trends: Introducing the Wallarm Q2 2024 API ThreatStats™ Report

As we move through 2024, the Wallarm Research Team continues to monitor the evolving API vulnerability and threat landscape. Our latest Q2 ThreatStats™ Report reveals critical trends and developments that are reshaping the security environment. Continuing from our Q1 findings, the surge in AI API...

Security Testing: Types, Tools, and Best Practices

Opening Note: Understanding the Core Concepts of Security Analysis Continual developments in technology have elevated the significance of security analysis, a critical phase in software design. You can think of it as a vital diagram within the process of coding, engineered to identify and resolve...

API Leaks

Grasping the Fundamentals of API Breaches API, short for Application Programming Interface, consists of a stipulated set of guidelines and procedures enabling heterogeneous software applications to establish communication amongst them. Conceptualize it as an interconnecting channel that unites...

Navigating Threats – Insights from the Wallarm API ThreatStats™ Report Q3’2023

The world of digital technology is perpetually evolving, positioning cybersecurity as a frontline defense in safeguarding essential digital assets. A primary challenge in this sector, accentuated by the Wallarm API ThreatStats™ report Q3’2023, is ensuring robust API security. This in-depth report...