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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

From Shadow APIs to Shadow AI: How the API Threat Model Is Expanding Faster Than Most Defenses

The shadow technology problem is getting worse. Over the past few years, organizations have scaled microservices, cloud-native apps, and partner integrations faster than corporate governance models could keep up, resulting in undocumented or shadow APIs. We’re now seeing this pattern all over aga...

CISO Spotlight: Craig Riddell on Curiosity, Translation, and Why API Security is the New Business Imperative

It’s an unusually cold winter morning in Houston, and Craig Riddell is settling into his new role as Wallarm’s Global Field CISO. It’s a position that suits him down to the ground, blending technical depth, empathy, business acumen, and, what Craig believes, the most underrated skill in...

From Agent2Agent Prompt Injection to Runtime Self-Defense: How Wallarm Redefines Agentic AI Security

Is an AI-to-AI attack scenario a science fiction possibility only for blockbusters like the Terminator series of movies? Well, maybe not! Researchers recently discovered that one AI agent can “inject malicious instructions into a conversation, hiding them among otherwise benign client requests an...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Shift to Microservices: Evolve Your Security Practices & Container Security

Understand the best practices of shifting left to change your DevOps into DevSecOps. Your security health will get a serious boost. The post Shift to Microservices: Evolve Your Security Practices & Container Security appeared first on Wallarm Blog...

What CISA’s BOD 25-01 Means for API Security and How Wallarm Can Help

The US government has taken another significant step towards strengthening cloud security with the release of CISA’s Binding Operational Directive BOD 25-01. Aimed at improving the security posture of federal cloud environments, BOD 25-01 mandates robust configuration, visibility, and control...

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...

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,...

API Gateways and API Protection: What’s the Difference?

Modern businesses are increasingly reliant on APIs. They are the building blocks facilitating data exchange and communication between disparate systems. Because of their prevalence and importance, they are also under attack by actors exploiting vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. Unauthorized...

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 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,...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

API Attack Awareness: Business Logic Abuse — Exploiting the Rules of the Game

As Cybersecurity Awareness Month continues, we wanted to dive even deeper into the attack methods affecting APIs. We’ve already reviewed Broken Object Level Authentication BOLA, injection attacks, and authentication flaws; this week, we’re exploring business logic abuse BLA. Unlike technical flaw...

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...

CISO: funciones y responsabilidades laborales 🛡️

Significado de CISO En el ámbito corporativo, CISO es un acrónimo ampliamente reconocido que denota a "Chief Information Security Officer", que se puede interpretar en español como el Encargado Principal de Salvaguardar la Información. Este encargo representa una posición esencial en el organigra...

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...

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...

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...

CISO Spotlight: AJ Debole on the Business-Tech Divide, Breach Readiness, and AI Risks

AJ Debole is Field CISO at Oracle, but her journey began far from the corporate boardroom. After starting out in law and government, she moved into healthcare and cyber defense, where she led teams through ransomware crises. In this spotlight, she explores the next wave of challenges – aligning...

The API Security Reality Check: Key Takeaways from Q2 2025 API ThreatStats Report

API security has never been more crucial. Vulnerabilities are growing in volume and severity. AI integrations are a burgeoning attack vector. Increasing GraphQL adoption presents hidden dangers. To protect your organization, you must secure your APIs. Keep reading for our key takeaways from the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Maximizing Performance with Wallarm Filtering Nodes in Amazon’s Global Infrastructure

Introduction In todays digital landscape, ensuring the security and performance of web applications is paramount. To achieve optimal protection against cyber threats, organizations deploy web application and API protection WAAPs like Wallarm. However, to truly leverage the benefits of Wallarm,...

Information Security Analyst – Job Description and How to Become

Introduction A security expert is a wide work term that alludes to persons who keep up with the security of PC frameworks and organizations. Let us go through an information security analyst jobs description What is an information security analyst? Huge data breaks at colossal associations have a...

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 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...