XDR vs. SIEM

Enhanced Discovery and Resolution, or more commonly known as XDR, serves as a revolutionary model in cybersecurity. It works by combining multiple security apparatuses into a solitary system, thus uplifting the ability for threat detections and subsequent responses. Unlike the standard...

Wallarm Presenting at BSides Albuquerque

If you’re in the Albuquerque area this Friday and/or Saturday, we hope you’re planning on going to BSides ABQ – it promises to be a fun-filled weekend of learning. The team there has pulled together an interesting set of talks covering a wide variety of topics such as Infosec Ontology, Social...

Everyone Knows About Broken Authorization – So Why Does It Still Work for Attackers?

Broken authorization is one of the most widely known API vulnerabilities. It features in the OWASP Top 10, AppSec conversations, and secure coding guidelines. Broken Object Level Authorization BOLA and Broken Function Level Authorization BFLA account for hundreds of API vulnerabilities every...

Top Open Source API Security Tools

The modern world relies on Application Programming Interfaces APIs. They allow applications to communicate with each other, servers, and consumers to facilitate data sharing and simplify application development. Without them, the internet would be unrecognizable. However, APIs also present a...

How Can Deliberately Flawed APIs Help In Mastering API Security?

In our recent webinar recent webinar title 'A CISO’s Checklist for Securing APIs and Applications', we delved into the concept of creating an API security playground tailored for both developer and security teams. The core idea revolves around utilizing intentionally vulnerable APIs as training...

Top 4 Essential Strategies for Securing APIs To Block Compromised Tokens

Government bodies are clamping down heavily on institutions and organizations that handle sensitive customer data. For APIs, tokens are used to authenticate users. We live in an era dominated by cloud-native and cloud-first solutions that rely on these services to provide dynamic data storage...

Blocking Compromised Tokens with Wallarm

In our Annual API ThreatStats report, we highlighted the increasing threat of API Leaks. An API Leak is the disclosure of sensitive API information, such as a token, credential, or private schema. These leaks can occur directly via the API itself, but also via third party tools used to manage...

The Future of Cybersecurity

Pioneering the Forward-Thinking Epoch of Internet Safety As we brace for an era anticipated to offer a deeper entwined digital landscape, a profound transformation stirs within the realms of online safety. As we are safeguarding not just personal computers or mobile devices, but also other...

Webinar: Join us for the latest in API Threats on January 24, 2024

In today's complex digital landscape, the security of APIs has become paramount. As we move into 2024, it's essential to stay ahead of the evolving API security threats and vulnerabilities. The upcoming webinar on "API ThreatStats™ Report: 2023 Year-In-Review" is your quickest way to learn about...

What Is Dynamic DNS

Delving into the Multiple Aspects of the Dynamic Domain Name Protocol DDNS: A Detailed Scrutiny DDNS, standing for Dynamic Domain Name System, is an automatic procedure crafted to maintain the synchronization of the data associated with a DNS server. This system functions uninterruptedly to make...

Unlocking API Security Excellence: Wallarm at OWASP Global AppSec DC 2023

If you're involved in securing APIs, applications and web applications, or looking to learn about these, then the OWASP Global AppSec DC Conference next week is a must-attend event. Wallarm, the experts in API and application security, will be there, and we're excited to connect with you on Octob...

What is Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) ?

Trust No One, Secure Everything: Unpacking Zero Trust Architecture In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, the traditional approach of building a robust wall around your network and trusting everything inside it is no longer sufficient. The rise of cloud computing, remote work, and mobil...

Impact of the New SEC Cyber Incident Reporting Rules on the C-Suite and Beyond

We recently hosted a compact and very engaging panel discussion about the new SEC Cyber Incident Reporting Rules due to come into effect later this year. We were fortunate to be joined by two well-known experts: Sue Bergamo, a CISO, CIO, Board Member, Executive Advisor, and Investor with a track...

Holistic API Security Strategy for 2023

In the digital landscape of 2023, Application Programming Interfaces APIs have taken center stage in business operations. APIs act as the backbone of many digital services, enabling software applications to communicate and exchange data with each other. As businesses increasingly rely on APIs for...

Learn from the T-Mobile API Breach to Improve Your API Security Program in 2023

A CISO’s job has never been more challenging. Engineering teams move fast, especially as organizations are accelerating their digital transformation efforts. The tech stack is exploding and varies greatly across the organization. And there is a surge of internal, external, and partner APIs. It’s...

Wallarm Releases New End-to-End Solution to Reduce Risk and Time-to-Remediate Leaked API Keys and Secrets

Advancement to API Security Technology Will Combat Recent Surge in Hacks Leveraging Leaked API; Early Release Now Available San Francisco, CA –BUSINESS WIRE– January 19, 2023 – Wallarm, the end-to-end API security company, today announced the early release of the Wallarm API Leak Management...

OWASP Top-10 2022: Forecast Based on Statistics

For tech innovators and security experts, what OWASP Top-10 says or predicts is much attention-worthy as this globally recognized document guide about the hidden and damage-causing security threats. As the year 2022 has begun, the people willing to learn about the latest security trends and...

What Is Local File Inclusion Vulnerability?

Introduction This article clarifies what nearby record consideration LFI weaknesses are, including the way assailants can take advantage of them on weak web applications and what safe coding practices can assist you with forestalling local document incorporation assaults. Record incorporations ar...

Attackers Abuse DocuSign API to Send Authentic-Looking Invoices At Scale

In a concerning trend, cybercriminals are leveraging DocuSign's APIs to send fake invoices that appear strikingly authentic. Unlike traditional phishing scams that rely on deceptively crafted emails and malicious links, these incidents use genuine DocuSign accounts and templates to impersonate...

Digital Experience Monitoring | What Is DEM?

Introduction to Digital Experience Monitoring: Illuminating the Basics In an era governed by technology, the satisfaction of an end-user is of utmost importance. It has the power to stimulate or to halt business growth, and frequently determines if a client continues or discontinues their...

MQTT vs AMQP

The Initial Overview: Learning about MQTT & AMQP In the dynamic arenas of Internet of Things IoT" and cloud computing, communication protocols that are robust, reliable and capable of handling high traffic volumes have become essential. The two protocols that have recently gained significant grou...

Insights into the New OWASP API Security Top-10 for CISOs

ICYMI, we recently presented A CISOs Guide to the New 2023 OWASP API Security Update. In this first of two planned webinars, Stepan Ilyin and Tim Ebbers provided an overview of what’s in and what’s out in the planned update and had a lively discussion about how this impacts your API security plan...

What is a Logic Bomb?

Cyber-attacks have become a norm these days as many as 4,000 attacks are happening every day, alone in the US. Bad actors have ample ways to target it’s the victim and the logic bomb is one of them. Logic bomb virus may seem subtle on the surface but can be profoundly damaging, if not taken care ...

Scholarship Results

Its time to sum up the results of the 2021 scholarship! As you know, we extended the scholarship for 1 month until October 30th because there were many applications and few finished papers. By October 30 the situation had not changed, only 1 essay had been added and became 4, the number of...

Security Challenges in FinTech – Discussion with Vandana Verma, OWASP

In the digital era, financial institutions serve an increasing number of customers through web and mobile applications. Fintech maintains online security, and OWASP offers pieces of the puzzle to address the challenges. We CAN solve these challenges by leveraging the OWASP community knowledge bas...

Why You Need to Use Rules in Your Yii2 Framework Models

In the previous article, we described the vulnerability discovered in the Yii2 Framework 2.0.35. In this piece, you'll find out how to prevent it. It's a highly recommended read, especially for web developers who want to quickly check the rule settings and fix a detected vulnerability. Yii is an...

The Governance Gap: How the EU AI Act Makes API Security a Compliance Imperative

Your legal team just handed you a 400-page document and said "figure out compliance." The EU AI Act is live, your organization falls under its scope, which is broader than many expect. Even non‑EU companies must comply if their AI systems are used, deployed, or produce effects within the European...

Attacking the MCP Trust Boundary

Every secure API draws a line between code and data. HTTP separates headers from bodies. SQL has prepared statements. Even email distinguishes the envelope from the message. The Model Context Protocol MCP, the fast-growing standard for connecting AI agents to external services, inherits that gap...

What Is Network Segmentation

Unearthing the Basics: Your Guide to Understanding Network Partitioning A fundamental tenet of network partitioning is its critical role in digital defense. But, what does this truly embody? If you were to break it down, network partitioning refers to an approach that segregates a digital system...

What is Progressive Delivery ?

Delving Into the Essential Elements of Incremental Deployment Incremental deployment is an approach in the realm of software engineering, characterized by a phased release cycle. It allows the introduction of new features or updates to a select user community initially, before rolling them out to...

2023 OWASP Top-10 Series: API8:2023 Security Misconfiguration

Welcome to the 9th 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 API8:2023 Security Misconfiguration. In this series we are taking an in-depth look at each category – the details, the impact and...

A Match Made in the Clouds

With recent explosion of Kubernetes adoption and Wallarm’s consistent effort to deliver Kubernetes native security offerings, I feel tremendous confidence in our collective ability to stay ahead of the emerging threats in the cloud native ecosystem. The post A Match Made in the Clouds appeared...

Securing GraphQL. Part 1

GraphQL is an alternative to the REST concept that allows working with the data in a more structured and object-oriented way. This technology is very famous and used by many enterprise companies such as Facebook, Walmart, Intuit among other. Whether you know it or not, GraphQL has a significant...

New from Wallarm Research: First AI-based Tool to Predict Vulnerability Risk

Wallarm Inc., a leading developer of AI-based Web Application security solutions, and Vulners.com, the security database of software vulnerabilities in machine-readable format, today announced the release of a free vulnerability assessment tool that utilizes a unique neutral neural network...

ToolShell: Remote Code Execution in Microsoft SharePoint (CVE-2025-53770)

On July 19, 2025, a critical remote code execution RCE vulnerability CVE-2025-53770, also referred to as ToolShell was publicly disclosed, impacting on-premises Microsoft SharePoint Server installations. This vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code remotely by...

API Specifications: Why, When, and How to Enforce Them

APIs facilitate communication between different software applications and power a wide range of everyday digital experiences, from weather apps to streaming services and everything in between. They are also a critical ingredient of AI. However, if not structured and standardized properly, APIs ca...

Sistema Automático de Identificación de Huellas Dactilares – AFIS

Historia del sistema automatizado de identificación de huellas dactilares No cabe duda, el Mecanismo Computarizado de Detección de Marcas Dactilares, usualmente abreviado como AFIS, ha tenido un rol crucial en la intensificación de la seguridad y en la eficacia de los procedimientos judiciales...

Mobile Application Security

Our progression into the digital age has notably changed the way we function. Everything from financial management, online purchases, virtual education, to entertainment—has been compacted into the easily-navigatable universe of apps on our handheld devices. This amplified reliance on mobile...

Cryptographer – Job Description and How to Become

Introduction Cryptography is perhaps the main instrument for building a secure computerized framework. These professionals assume a major part in building these frameworks. This makes them probably the most generously compensated and profoundly esteemed laborers inside the growing universe of...

10 minutes to secure your Kubernetes application without giving up on customization: Wallarm WAF as a sidecar container with plain Kubernetes manifests

In this series’ previous article, we added the AI-powered Wallarm WAF to our Helm chart bundled application as a sidecar container. As you can see, 10 minutes is the time we need to stop worrying about rules, lists, and attacks, and start focusing on performance, optimization, and deployment. As...

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...

SOC 2 Compliance During Covid-19 Times

A lot of IT Security Officers responsible for driving the SOC 2 certification in their companies are probably wondering how the switch to mostly remote workspaces will affect their SOC 2 landscape. I would say that there are two types of companies affected or not affected by the coronavirus:...

CIOReview names Wallarm in    “20 Most Promising Enterprise WebApp Solution Providers”

CIOReview names Wallarm in “20 Most Promising Enterprise WebApp Solution Providers” We are glad to be short-listed amongst Top-20 most promising solution providers for the web apps by CIOReview. This is a good illustration of how we are helping enterprises to secure their web apps. The award main...

Data Leaks and AI Agents: Why Your APIs Could Be Exposing Sensitive Information

Most organizations are using AI in some way today, whether they know it or not. Some are merely beginning to experiment with it, using tools like chatbots. Others, however, have integrated agentic AI directly into their business procedures and APIs. While both types of organizations are undoubted...

How Is API Abuse Different from Web Application Attacks by Bots?

API abuse and web application bot attacks are often confused. This is understandable, as both involve automated interactions and are usually executed by bots. Both attack vectors are prevalent; criminals are always eager to disrupt the foundations on which businesses base their operations to...

TCP Resets from Client and Server aka TCP-RST-FROM-Client

Diving into the Enigma of TCP Resets Executed by Client and Server The Base Communication Protocol BCP, understoond as the Transmission Control Protocol TCP" equivalent, plays a key role in the protocol unit of the internet. Its primary task entails laying a groundwork for communication between t...

What is a Polymorphic Virus detection and best practices ?

In the ever-evolving sphere of digital tech, the persistent threat of cyber intrusions remains a formidable concern. A notable example is the polymorphic virus, an insidiously clever adversary in the landscape of cyber threats. Let's probe the intrinsic nature, attributes, and behaviors of this...

Connect with Wallarm at RSA 2023

We’re looking forward to seeing you at this year’s RSA Conference! Don’t forget to set up a meeting with our executives, as they would love to hear more about your team’s application security needs and chat with you about how Wallarm can help. Visit Us at Booth 6585 in the North Expo Hall Wallarm...

Security Manager Guide – Job Description and How to Become

Introduction This guide discloses how to turn into a security supervisor, as well as the means to take to begin in this productive and intriguing industry. Keep perusing to find about the instructive, and certificate prerequisites for cybersecurity managers in the work environment. Bosses look fo...

Introducing Wallarm Middle East Cloud: Built for Data Residency Compliance

As API and AI adoption grows across the Middle East, so do the expectations around how data is handled. For many organizations operating in this region, it’s not just about securing applications. It’s about doing it in a way that keeps data in-country and aligned with local requirements. Today,...