Protect your Helm chart bundled application with Wallarm WAF. 10-minutes configuration for continuous and enhanced security

Every application has its own specific goals, critical aspects, and needs. So, the logical conclusion would be that every app needs an in-depth manual configuration, right? Well, here at Wallarm, we’re security experts and developers from the real world, and we know that in many cases time,...

Defining Wallarm API-specific Rules

Automatically Detect + Parse and Set Your Own Rules A unique Wallarm AI feature is its ability to automatically detect and parse complicated API protocols and then set up security rules based on specific data or parameters deep inside the API. Once parsed, the system creates the rules-based both ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Choosing the Right Deployment Option for Your API Security Solution

You need an API security solution. That much is a given although some may argue it isn’t!. While essential for business growth and innovation, APIs, or Application Programming Interfaces, expose the organizations that use them to cyber threats. Attackers are both aware of and actively exploiting...

Two of Wallarm’s Open-source Tools Have Been Accepted into Black Hat Arsenal 2024

We're gearing up with some seriously cool stuff for Black Hat! But first, a little sneak peek - not just one, but TWO of Wallarm's open-source tools will be featured in the Arsenal showcase at Black Hat USA this year. Black Hat Arsenal unites researchers and the open-source community to display...

Polyfill.io Supply Chain Attack: Malicious JavaScript Injection Puts Over 100k Websites At Risk

Polyfill.io helps web developers achieve cross-browser compatibility by automatically managing necessary polyfills. By adding a script tag to their HTML, developers can ensure that features like JavaScript functions, HTML5 elements, and various APIs work across different browsers. Originally...

Top 3 API Leaks Identified by Cybersecurity & InfoSec Experts

APIs Application Programming Interfaces have proliferated widely, which increases their susceptibility to various vulnerabilities. In the realm of web applications, prime examples that stand out are SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol and Representational State Transfer REST APIs. Due to their...

How to Implement a Secure Incident Response Plan

Understanding the Basics of Secure Incident Response Plan A proactive strategy for coping with digital dangers calls for a well-planned process that can neutralize and diminish the harmful aftermath of unauthorized intrusion attempts and neglect of security principles. The primary aim of this...

Unit Testing Frameworks: A Quick Comparison

Stepping Forward in Understanding Software Unit Evaluation Venturing into the realm of software creation, emphasizing quality takes center stage. This gold standard governs aspects such as operational capabilities, dependability, and the overall performance of your software. Regular assessments, ...

DEEP WEB VS DARK WEB

Let's Plunge Further: Steering through the Twists and Turns of the Invisible Web and Shadow Web Think of the internet as an unbounded digital cosmos; our daily interaction only grazes the surface. Dwelling beneath tiers of commonly visited websites is a complex maze of data, christened the...

2023 OWASP Top-10 Series: API3:2023 Broken Object Property Level Authorization

Welcome to the 4th 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 API3:2023 Broken Object Property Level Authorization. In this series we are taking an in-depth look at each category – the detail...

Introducing Integrated API Abuse Prevention to Combat Bad Bots

In recent years theres been a rise in "API Abuse" attacks, which includes detrimental automated behaviors such as malicious bots, account takeover ATO, credential stuffing, application layer L7 DDoS, data scraping, and more. For instance, in April-2021 malicious actors scraped the personal data o...

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...

Malware Analyst – Job Description and How to Become

Introduction Malware investigation is the review or cycle of deciding the usefulness and possible effect of a given malware like an infection, worm, trojan, rootkit, or secondary passage. Malware or malignant programming is any PC programming planned to hurt the host working framework or to take...

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...

Security Software Developer – Job Description and How to Become One

Introduction The cybersecurity industry is daily growing bigger daily and creating numerous roles for anyone to specialize in. One of the eye-catching perks of the industry is the annual pay which varies according to the role. This guide focuses on teaching a security software developer job...

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...

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...

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...

WAF-Based Attacks & The Future of Security

Understand WAFs and cybersecurity. Recent WAF-based breaches with CapitalOne, Imperva, and Cloudflare offer essential lessons we can learn from where WAF technology is failing us and what can we do to improve our security. The post WAF-Based Attacks & The Future of Security appeared first on...

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...

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...

CISO Spotlight: Rick Bohm on Building Bridges, Taming AI, and the Future of API Security

Nestled in a log cabin high in the Rocky Mountains, Rick Bohm starts his day the same way he’s approached his career: intentionally, with a quiet commitment to learning and action. Boasting more than three decades of cybersecurity experience, Rick has watched tech evolve from dial-up ISPs to...

The Hidden Costs of API Breaches: Quantifying the Long-Term Business Impact

API attacks can be costly. Really costly. Obvious financial impacts like legal fines, stolen finances, and incident response budgets can run into the hundreds of millions. However, other hidden costs often compound the issue, especially if you’re not expecting them. This article will explore the...

Reducing False Positives in API Security: Advanced Techniques Using Machine Learning

False positives in API security are a serious problem, often resulting in wasted results and time, missing real threats, alert fatigue, and operational disruption. Fortunately, however, emerging technologies like machine learning ML can help organizations minimize false positives and streamline t...

What is WAN Acceleration?

Hook: Network Sluggish? Learn What WAN Acceleration Is Ever been in a virtual meeting that froze at the worst possible moment? Or had your staff grumble about slow data transfers that are as slow as molasses? If your answer is a weary "yes," it's high time to turn your eyes toward WAN Acceleratio...

API Security in 2023: Major Insights from Postman’s State of the API Report

📣 Good news for all tech enthusiasts! The highly anticipated 2023 State of the API Report, conducted by Postman - one of the leading dev tools for building APIs, is now available. This comprehensive report, produced annually, is backed by an extensive survey and offers a deep dive into the...

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,...

340 weak JWT secrets you should check in your code

JSON Web Token JWT is the data format with bill-in signature and encryption mechanisms that are often used by modern web applications to store user sessions and application context, including authentication by SSO and meta-data. Usually, you can find JWT tokens in an Authentication Bearer HTTP...

What stealthy attacks are hiding in API data — and why do most WAF miss them?!

Is JSON really more secure than other data encoding formats? JSON is a serialization format that allows users to 1 send objects as strings and then 2 it sends applications to recover objects from those strings. So, the short answer is that the JSON format as dangerous as other serialization...

Wallarm Halts Remote Code Execution Exploits: Defense for Vulnerable React Server Component Workflows

On December 3, 2025, React maintainers disclosed a critical unauthenticated remote code execution RCE vulnerability in React Server Components RSC, tracked as CVE-2025-55182. A working PoC was released publicly, and Wallarm immediately began observing widespread exploitation attempts across...

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 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...

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...

Your AppSec Journey Demystified: Driving Effective API Security with Wallarm and StackHawk

There is no doubt that attackers have shifted their attention to APIs. Wallarm’s API ThreatStats research identifies that 70% of attacks now target APIs instead of Web Applications. While APIs have become the backbone of innovation and connectivity for businesses, they have also introduced a vast...

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 XDR ?

Unpacking XDR: Broadened Acknowledgment and Response In the perpetually advancing domain of digital protection, new lingo and philosophies constantly emerge. Among the more recent additions is XDR, an acronym for Extended Detection and Response. This passage will provide a detailed insight into...

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...

Choose the right ingress controller for your Kubernetes environment

Choosing the right ingress controller can help you ensure the right infrastructure, direction, and level of customization. Get the information about ingress controllers you need. The post Choose the right ingress controller for your Kubernetes environment appeared first on Wallarm Blog...

Autoscaling Wallarm Nodes in AWS, GCP, and Azure

Newly updated Wallarm Node images now natively support autoscaling capabilities in AWS, GCP, and Azure. Updated images are already available in cloud provider marketplaces and can rely on the native auto-scaling to adjust the number of nodes based on traffic, CPU load, and other parameters. What ...

Why ArtsSEC decided to partner with Wallarm

by Maximiliano Soler, @maxisoler by Maximiliano Soller, CTO of ArtsSEC The greatest thing with partnerships is how well the organisations’ expertise complement each other. Our partnership with Wallarm has incredibly exceeded our expectations in their innovation and expertise in web application...