CISO Spotlight: Dimitris Georgiou on Building Security that Serves People First

Dimitris Georgiou has been a self-professed computer geek since the early 80s. At university, he studied the convergence of educational technology with computer science as part of his psychology MA – finding, to his disbelief, that systems were perilously insecure. Since then, he’s always worked ...

Addressing API Security with NIST SP 800-228

According to the Wallarm Q1 2025 ThreatStats report, 70% of all application attacks target APIs. The industry can no longer treat API security as a sidenote; it’s time to treat it as the main event. NIST seems to be on board with this view, releasing the initial public draft of NIST SP 800-228, a...

API Threat Trends: How Attackers Are Exploiting Business Logic

As businesses rely more on APIs, attackers are quick to turn that trust into opportunity. Among the most dangerous and difficult-to-detect threats are business logic exploits, which let cybercriminals manipulate legitimate functionality to gain unauthorized access, exfiltrate data, or disrupt...

Spoutible Enhances Platform Security through Partnership with Wallarm

Spoutible, the rapidly growing social media platform known for its commitment to fostering a safe, inclusive, and respectful online community, has taken a significant step forward in its mission to ensure user safety, security and data integrity. Recognizing the critical importance of robust API...

VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT

In any strategy aimed at combating cyber threats, the essential peace is the adequate regulation of possible frailties or susceptibility points. This concept embodies a broad spectrum of actions covering the spotting, categorizing, ranking, and rectification of possible risk areas within a digita...

FREE Cybersecurity Education Courses

Navigating the nuanced realm of digital defense doesn't need to feel like a herculean task. This section aims to shed light on the intricacies of digital defense and aid you in leveraging freely available Cybersecurity Learning Programs. Deciphering Digital Defense Digital defense, also referred ...

EDR vs MDR vs XDR

In the realm of security measures within the digital expanse, we recurrently stumble upon designations, namely, EDR Endpoint Detection and Response, MDR Managed Detection and Response, and XDR Extended Detection and Response. These abbreviations express singular methodologies fashioned to augment...

Elevating Enterprise API Security with Wallarm for MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

In an age characterized by digital transformation, APIs serve as the backbone of modern applications, enabling diverse systems to communicate and share data seamlessly. This widespread API adoption, however, exposes organizations to a considerable attack surface, inviting the attention of cyber...

2023 OWASP Top-10 Series: Introduction

In early June 2023, OWASP released the final version of the OWASP API Security Top-10 list update. At that time we published a “hot take” on this final version and followed that up with an in-depth look at the new risk ratings for 2023. Today we’re kicking off a multi-post series in which we take...

What’s most important for a CISO in API security?

As threats to networks and systems have changed, so have CISOs’ priorities. API security has grown more important with everything as a service and in the cloud. Todays CISOs must ensure they have a plan for protecting APIs. To learn what’s most crucial when protecting APIs, we surveyed CISOs and...

Open-Source API Firewall Unveils New Feature: Default Deny Lists for Compromised API Tokens and Cookies

Discovering and securing any API is one of the most difficult challenges for developers. The API security landscape is constantly evolving, with new threats and vulnerabilities emerging at a rapid pace. Since commercial API security solutions can be expensive for some organizations especially...

Information Security Consultant – Job Description and How to Become

Introduction As per Centrify, a forerunner in the Privileged Access Management PAM market that forms programming to forestall cyberattacks, the huge ascent of people working from a distance during the COVID-19 pandemic has raised the probability of a digital break. Therefore, network protection h...

What is Code Obfuscation?

Introduction The hazards of hacking and its corresponding disasters have become so precarious that the developers and organizations take utmost care to lessen their occurrence and the impact. Code obfuscation is one such strategic move that, when performed, keeps administered codes away from the...

AWS re:Invent 2017: Wallarm Delivers its AI-enabled NG-WAF and scanner to AWS Customers

We are thrilled to be sponsoring this year’s AWS re:INVENT in Las Vegas. With many of our customers using AWS infrastructure it is critical for us to provide a frictionless way to protect APIs, applications and micro-services in AWS environments. Filtering nodes for Wallarm’s NG-WAF with Active...

Inside Modern API Attacks: What We Learn from the 2026 API ThreatStats Report

API security has been a growing concern for years. However, while it was always seen as important, it often came second to application security or hardening infrastructure. In 2025, the picture changed. Wallarm’s 2026 API ThreatStats Report revealed that APIs are now the primary attack surface fo...

7 Reasons to Get Certified in API Security

API security is becoming more important by the day and skilled practitioners are in high demand. Now’s the time to level up your API security skillset. Wallarm University, our free training course, provides security analysts, engineers, and practitioners with hands-on skills you can’t get from...

Wallarm: API Security Platform of the Year 2025

2025 has been one of Wallarm’s biggest years yet. In the last few months alone, we unveiled our industry-first API Revenue Protection capability, launched our next-gen Security Edge offering, were included in the 2025 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in America, and announced o...

Exploiting API4 — 8 Real-World Unrestricted Resource Consumption Attack Scenarios (and How to Stop Them)

Unrestricted Resource ConsumptionAPI4:2023 is the only threat category in the OWASP API Security Top 10 explicitly dedicated to Denial of Service DoS and resource abuse. But despite being just one category, attackers can exploit it in many different ways; from large file uploads and expensive...

Developer Leaks API Key for Private Tesla, SpaceX LLMs

In AI, as with so many advancing technologies, security often lags innovation. The xAI incident, during which a sensitive API key remained exposed for nearly two months, is a stark reminder of this disconnect. Such oversights not only jeopardize proprietary technologies but also highlight systemi...

340 secretos JWT débiles que debes revisar en tu código

¿Qué pasa con JWT? El token web JSON, usualmente identificado por sus siglas JWT, brinda un recurso eficaz para autenticar y habilitar el acceso en los programas web. No obstante, un uso inadecuado de esta herramienta puede resultar en serios fallos de seguridad. En este escrito, discutiremos los...

PCI DSS v4.0: What You Need to Know and What the End of v3.2.1 Means for the Future of Digital Payments

On March 31st, 2024, The Payments Card Industry Standards Security Council PCI SSC officially retired version 3.2.1 of the PCI Data Security Standard PCI DSS with the publication of its new sets of protocols and security standards for v4.0. With the continued rise in cyber threats against financi...

Improving Security with Wallarm’s NIST CSF 2.0 Dashboard

Ensuring the security of web applications and APIs is more critical than ever. With threats becoming increasingly prevalent and sophisticated, organizations need to employ comprehensive security measures to protect their digital assets. The NIST Cybersecurity Framework CSF 2.0 stands at the...

How to comply with HIPAA requirements

Understanding the Grounds of HIPAA Let's take a deep dive into understanding the broad structure and intent behind the Act for the Secure Management and Duty of Patient Data ASMDPD, a landmark piece of legislation that has deeply transformed the healthcare sector since its inception at the turn o...

What is RabbitMQ?

Grasping the Basics: What is RabbitMQ? Take a step into the realm of software development, where efficient and smooth interaction between various applications is the linchpin. Here, we bring into the mix RabbitMQ. Going down to brass tacks, RabbitMQ serves as a no-cost message broker tool,...

12 Cloud Security Issues Risks, Threats and Challenges

Unpacking the Cloud: Appreciating its Importance & Uncovering its Weak Points The cloud has utterly transformed our methods of data storage and retrieval. It has flawlessly woven itself into the fabric of our everyday lives, from a repository for precious memories to a platform that supports...

OSS API Firewall Unveils new Feature: Blacklist for Compromised API Tokens and Cookies

Discovering and securing any API is one of the most difficult challenges for developers. The API security landscape is constantly evolving, with new threats and vulnerabilities emerging at a rapid pace. Since commercial API security solutions could be really expensive for organizations, its never...

Penetration tester Guide – Job Description and How to Become

What is a penetration tester? In the realm of data security, pentesters are the specialists. The reason, likewise with other PI works out, is to recognize hazards before any potential meddling bosses get an opportunity to set up their framework. Helpless entertainers will endeavor to take advanta...

Best cyber security jobs in 2022 – Highest paying

Web protection is a worthwhile and quickly extending field that spotlights on shielding organizations from current attacks and guarding their information and frameworks. Specialists in network security distinguish blemishes, give programming and gear answers for diminish hazards, and foster plans...

What is fuzz testing? What is it used to test for?

Fuzz testing, regularly known as fuzzing, is a product testing procedure that incorporates embedding flawed or arbitrary information FUZZ into a product framework to recognize coding issues and security issues. Fuzz testing involves infusing information into a framework utilizing robotized or...

Discovering Shadow APIs with Wallarm API firewall

Shadow APIs can be defined as active endpoints that you are not aware of. Some APIs are deployed but never documented. Others are services that don’t have an owner anymore. Some are even old v2 versions that have been deprecated for years, yet still exposed. Long story short: these APIs are not...

The scholarship deadline extended to October 30

Greetings, dear scholarship recipients! Applications for the scholarship draw should have closed on September 31st, but we are still receiving applications from you. At the moment there were 148 applications and only 3 people managed to submit them in time, now they are sent to our technical...

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...

Welcome Our New CMO, Renata Budko

By Ivan Novikov We have ended 2017 with an oomph — having record revenues, on-boarding new marquee Fortune 500 customers and forging new partnerships. We are also growing our team and I would like to welcome Renata Budko joining us as our new Chief Marketing Officer. We’re really excited to have...

Randy Bias joins Wallarm board of advisers

Menlo Park, California — December 5, 2017 — Wallarm today announced that Randy Bias, Vice President of Technology and Strategy, Cloud Software at Juniper and founder of Cloudscaling acquired by EMC, has joined Wallarm’s board of advisers. “Randy is an agile cloud pioneer and a thought leader in...

Update on React Server Components RCE Vulnerability (CVE-2025-55182 / CVE-2025-66478)

The attack landscape has been dynamic following the disclosure of the React Server Components RCE vulnerability. New information has emerged regarding the initial Proof-of-Concept exploit, as well as improved detection methods, exploitation mechanics observed in the wild, and rapidly growing atta...

When your AI Assistant Becomes the Attacker’s Command-and-Control

Earlier this month, Microsoft uncovered SesameOp, a new backdoor malware that abuses the OpenAI Assistants API as a covert command-and-control C2 channel. The discovery has drawn significant attention within the cybersecurity community. Security teams can no longer focus solely on endpoint malwar...

When APIs Become Attack Paths: What the Q3 2025 ThreatStats Report Tells Us

Wallarm’s latest Q3 2025 API ThreatStats report link placeholder reveals that API vulnerabilities, exploits, and breaches are not just increasing; they’re evolving. Malicious actors are shifting from code-level weaknesses to business logic flaws, from web apps to partner integrations, and from RE...

Wallarm Research Releases Nuclei Template to Counter Threats Targeting LLM Apps

Wallarm Research has just released a powerful new Nuclei template targeting a new kind of exposure: the Model Context Protocol MCP. This isn’t about legacy devtools or generic JSON-RPC pinging. It’s about the protocol fueling next-gen LLM applications — and it’s already showing up exposed in the...

Meeting NIST API Security Guidelines with Wallarm

On March 25, 2025, NIST released the initial public draft of NIST SP 800-228, "Guidelines for API Protection for Cloud-Native Systems." The document provides a comprehensive framework for securing APIs in cloud-enabled environments. However, for organizations looking to align with these objective...

What Is Cloud Data Protection?

A Deep Dive into the Cosmic Universe of Information Safeguarding: An Exhaustive Examination of Distributed Data Security As the virtual dominions continue to propagate at a phenomenal pace, the totality of data we generate daily scales new zeniths. We see ourselves increasingly relying on 'online...

What Is The Cyber Kill Chain? Process & Model

Grasping the Fundamentals: A Study of the Cyber Harm Ladder Navigating the multifaceted universe of cybersecurity is similar to solving an evolving labyrinth. This world is awash with intricate principles and techniques; with the Cyber Harm Ladder gaining increasing focus in recent times. But, wh...

Wallarm to Unveil New API Security Solution and Strategic Shift at Black Hat Europe 2023

If you're involved with cybersecurity and are based in Europe, then Black Hat Europe 2023 in London, December 6 and 7 is a must-attend event. Wallarm, the experts in API and Application Security, will be attending the event, and we're excited to connect with you. If you are planning to attend, co...

What is Cloud Migration ?

Dispelling the Fog: Unraveling Cloud Migration In the technological realm, cloud migration is a burgeoning trend that's swiftly taking center stage. However, its definite meaning may not be crystal clear to all. Simply put, cloud migration is the process where essential business constituents such...

Drinking Our Own Champagne: Enhancing API Security with FAST

Welcome to another inside story straight from the Wallarm labs. Today we’re taking you behind the scenes of our self-testing journey, showcasing how we "drink our own champagne" by implementing our Framework for Application Security Testing FAST to strengthen the security of our APIs. The intent ...

Latest Bypassing Techniques Beat SOAP/XML API Protection

It is impossible to protect APIs unless you take a deep dive into the protocols implemented over the standard HTTP. Most security tools are not protecting data where it’s most vulnerable, inside the XML schema itself. These encoding attacks are going unflagged by many application platforms, despi...

Join Wallarm at ISSA’s Cornerstones of Trust event on June 20th

Next week, local chapter of Information Systems Security Association check them out at http://www.sv-issa.org is organizing a focused security conference looking into the issues of securing end users, enterprise technologies and security processes. Come meet Wallarm to learn about trends and best...

Mapping the Future of AI Security

AI security is one of the most pressing challenges facing the world today. Artificial intelligence is extraordinarily powerful, and, especially considering the advent of Agentic AI, growing more so by the day. But it is for this reason that securing it is so important. AI handles massive amounts ...

The API Security Challenge in AI: Preventing Resource Exhaustion and Unauthorized Access

Agentic AI is transforming business. Organizations are increasingly integrating AI agents into core business systems and processes, using them as intermediaries between users and these internal systems. As a result, these organizations are improving efficiency, automating routine tasks, and drivi...

Overcoming Security Challenges in Real-Time APIs

Speed is everything in the modern business world. Our attention spans are shorter than ever, consumers demand short and seamless interactions, and the slightest delay in service delivery can see organizations fall far behind their competitors. This is why real-time APIs are so important; they...

Top Tool Capabilities to Prevent AI-Powered Attacks

Recent advances in AI technologies have granted organizations and individuals alike unprecedented productivity, efficiency, and operational benefits. AI is, without question, the single most exciting emerging technology in the world. However, it also brings enormous risks. While the dystopian,...