Frenemy at the Gates: The Breaching

Online businesses have to be careful. It’s a dangerous world, full of anonymous people and services wearing digital skins. It sounds horrific because it is. On the other side of a transaction, could be anyone. Extra measures have to be made to secure web interfaces and API endpoints that online...

What The Actual WAF!?

InfoSec Family, we need to talk!! Every so often, there is a technological shift in the information security industry. Sometimes it is due to new cyberattack discovery, aka a Zero-day. Many times, the catalyst is legacy technology. When a legacy technology no longer adequately responds to the...

Wallarm connector to Apigee

If you are a business undergoing a digital transformation, like Walgreens, Nike or Bechtel, heavy reliance on APIs is a key part of that digital transformation strategy. “The growing demand for information, delivered securely at any time, in any place and on any device has changed the way we thin...

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 ...

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 ...

Defining Wallarm API-specific Rules

Case Study Using SugarCRM API As an Example 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 on where...

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 ...

Using Threat Modeling in Cybersecurity to Hunt and Remediate

Modern-day cyberattacks keep growing in sophistication and sheer volume. This dynamic makes it virtually impossible to detect and block all attacks using the traditional methods of comparing incoming requests to known attack signatures. To effectively operate in this new aggressive cyberthreat...

Using Threat Modeling in Cybersecurity to Hunt and Remediate

Modern-day cyberattacks keep growing in sophistication and sheer volume. This dynamic makes it virtually impossible to detect and block all attacks using the traditional methods of comparing incoming requests to known attack signatures. To effectively operate in this new aggressive cyberthreat...

Latest Bypassing Techniques Beats SOAP/XML API Protection

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...

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...

Is your org structure threatening your IT security infrastructure?

5 Tips to Solve API Security Issues in Any IT Security Infrastructure Start listening. Integrating isn’t enough if your teams aren’t talking. In a hyper-competitive environment, keeping up with customer usability demands often means adopting a hyper-agile development process. It’s a dangerous...

Is your org structure threatening your IT security infrastructure?

In a hyper-competitive environment, keeping up with customer usability demands often means adopting a hyper-agile development process. It’s a dangerous devil’s bargain. Security gets left on the cutting room floor in pursuit of highly responsive, first-to-market, code-to-customer feature flow...

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

What stealthy attacks are hiding in API data — and why do most WAF miss them?! API Data: What is it and how is it saying it? APIs are the blood flow of today’s applications — from online browser-based apps to mobile apps to sophisticated distributed enterprise applications connecting dozens of...

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...

MTGOX: Crypto Failure is in the Name.

Mt. Gox Bitcoin Heist: Takeaways from a $3.3B Crypto Exchange Breach It was all fun and games, until someone lost 850,000 BTC from a Tokyo-based exchange, MTGOX, in 2014. Understanding how cryptocurrency exchanges evolved into hacker fantasy islands is all in the name. MTGOX, a company remembered...

MTGOX: Crypto Failure is in the Name.

Understanding how cryptocurrency exchanges evolved into hacker fantasy islands is all in the name. MTGOX, a company remembered for the largest crypto breach in history, is an acronym for Magic The Gathering Online Exchange MTGOX. The absurd rise and fall of MTGOX is critical to understanding the...

8 Tips and Best Practices to Build a Solid Cloud Migration Strategy for 2019

Here are eight fool-proof practices that can help you move your workloads to the cloud. A quick look at cloud migration. Cloud migration involves moving an organization’s data storage and IT operations to a cloud network. Cloud computing services are hosted in a multi-tenant environment and can b...

Visit Wallarm at Google Cloud Next

April 9–11, San Francisco, CA We are excited to join the community of the GCP professionals and demonstrate Wallarm web and API protection solutions custom-built for Google Cloud-powered applications. A certified GCP-partner, Wallarm delivers AI-powered security solution built to help your busine...

Can your Printer Hack your Secrets: Appweb Authorization Bypass

How IoT can pave the way for data breaches: Understanding the Appweb Authorization Bypass An engineering POV into everyday vulnerability. The everyday things you rely on may leave you vulnerable to attack. And it may not be the things themselves, but what is hiding inside. Are your IoT devices,...

What to Expect at RSA 2019

Attending RSAC 2019? The week promises to be full of exciting content, useful connections, networking and insights into new security trends. BSides San Francisco The week will start on March 3rd with the amazing BSides event. The BSides community has continuously raised the bar and put the INFO...

Wallarm Named to the Big50 2018–19 Report on the Top Startups in Tech

Wallarm has been named a “Hot Startup to Watch” in Startup50’s Big50 2018–19 Startup Report. The Big50 2018–19 Startup Report spotlights 50 high-upside startups that have gained a foothold in fast-growth tech sectors. Each year, Startup50 features startups that are poised to upend the status quo ...

Make Sure Your Security Is Ready for the President’s Day Shopping Spree

By Tony Bradley The following article was originally written to provide e-retailers with tip and tricks for the Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping. However, with the biggest President’s day spring sales approaching, the best practices and how-to remain the same. More about e-commerce security...

XXE that can Bypass WAF Protection

by Alex Drozdov, Wallarm Research XXE or XML External Entities is a new issue in the 2017 OWASP Top 10 vulnerability list. This is the only new issue of the set that was introduced based on direct data evidence from the security issues database. XML is commonly used for metadata of everything fro...

Wallarm to Sponsor AppSec Cali

If you are a SecOps or DevOps professional on the west coast you can not miss the premier California application security event: AppSec California, January 22–25th in Santa Monica. Here are testimonials from the previous AppSec Cali events: “I'm looking forward to AppSecCali next week. Last year...

Comparing Wallarm WAF Module to a Generic WAF

Comparing Wallarm Cloud Based WAF to a Legacy WAF What do you do if you need to protect your website from XSS attacks? You patch it and get a WAF. This is common knowledge and there are plenty of places where you could go to get basic protection for your websites. From a free solution to solution...

Hackathon is over: Here are our winners!

A few weeks ago Wallarm has launched a hackathon to create a machine learning / AI model to detect attacks among normal web requests. The competition was run on Kaggle as InClass. In this competition, Kagglers were asked to develop models that identify injections among neutral input vectors using...

Welcome, Brooke Motta!

By Ivan Novikov I am excited to announce a great addition to our Go-To-Market team. Brooke Motta has joined Wallarm as Vice President of Sales. Brooke brings 15 years of Cyber Security Sales Experience to the team. She has experience selling up and down the organization from an individual securit...

My Takeaways from the Gartner I&O Conference

By Renata Budko, Wallarm Last week I spent a few days in Las Vegas with the great folks at the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference. Gathered for the conference there were experts around the world from analysts to VPs to infrastructure and operations leaders to...

App Security and PCI; Are you ready for the audit?

As most people know, merchants, financial institutions and anybody else who is involved in processing credit cards are subject to the PCI DSS compliance to reduce fraud and cybersecurity risks. This affects both brick-n-mortar stores and banks as well as card-not-present CNP transactions that...

Six Xmas Gifts for the Pentester in your Life

Some of my best friends are ethical hackers. With the holidays approaching, these special people in my life will need special presents. Whether they are bounty hunting, pentesting as a part of a consulting project, doing security research to advance the field or working on a Red Team, they will...

RCE in PHP or how to bypass disable_functions in PHP installations

Today we will explore an exciting method to remotely execute code even if an administrator set disablefunctions in the PHP configuration file. It works at most popular UNIX-like systems. CVE-2018–19518 was assigned to the vulnerability was found by a man with the @crlf nickname. Let’s see details...

Wallarm to Sponsor KubeCon + CloudNative Con

If you have not registered yet for the main Kubernetes event in North America which will start on December 10th in Seattle, you may be out of luck. The event is sold out and is only taking the waitlist applications. But if you are going, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon promises to be a treat with the...

“Fire Danger Rating” on “High” in Security Climate

November was a scary month in California. After four years of drought, the forests and towns in the northern part of the state exploded into wildfires, displacing thousands of residents and destroying millions of dollars of property. The foul air in San Francisco and the surrounding areas was a...

Happy graduation, Envoy!

Envoy, the new darling of the DevOps community, performs the role of a service and edge proxy. With advanced features such as timeouts, rate limiting, circuit breaking, load balancing, retries, stats, logging, and distributed tracing are required to handle network failures in a fault tolerant and...

FAST or Burp or both?

By @aLLy , Wallarm Research Hello guys, time to talk details about Wallarm FAST Framework for Application Security Testing. It’s a new automatic web vulnerability scanning and fuzzing detection tool by Wallarm Inc. It is well suited for security researchers in enterprise Red Teams as well as for...

Wallarm New Open Source Module and Kaggle Hackathon

A key element of any security solution, whether its a WAF, NGWAF, RASP or even a SIEM or a classic IDS, is the ability to correctly detect whether an incoming API request is malicious. The traditional way to do it is using signatures and regular expressions regex. Some sets of signatures are...

Extending fuzzing with Burp by FAST

I love Burp Suite, like really. It’s the most convenient tool to visualize what’s happening with apps, what requests look like and to test simple things like XSS injection. At the same time, it’s really hard for me to do something more complicated, like implementing custom fuzzing with having to...

Wallarm now available on Azure

Wallarm is excited to announce the native availability of Wallarm node on Azure. While in the past Wallarm customers in Azure environment had to install Wallarm nodes as dynamic modules manually into their Azure instances with NGINX, the new release allows deployment from a pre-configured image...

New GigaOm Report: Path to DevOps Success

This month Wallarm has partnered with GigaOm to help our DevOps customers better understand the industry landscape and strategies to address the challenges of doing things the agile way. GigaOm’s perspective is that of the unbiased enterprise practitioner. GigaOm works directly with enterprises...

Wallarm joins CNCF to promote Kubernetes security

Wallarm has recently joined the Linux Foundation and its sister organization, Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Wallarm will be contributing its AI/ML security expertise within the LF and CNCF communities to support the sustainability and adoption of open source technologies. Wallarm and its...

Here Comes Wallarm

Today we are happy to announce the closing of $8 Million Series A financing. After talking with many venture firms in California, we decided to partner up with Toba Capital, a firm with an excellent understanding of the enterprise market and previous successful investments in security, such as...

Tools to address OWASP Top 10 Risks

In a recent article published by Security Boulevard. we talked about OWASP Top 10 Risk classification and overlap. In this post, we will look into the tools that may help address these risks. To understand what’s possible to cover with which protection mechanisms we can now color-code our OWASP...

Wallarm NG-WAF is Now a Part of Kong Hub to Provide Better Protection for Microservices, APIs and…

Wallarm NG-WAF is Now a Part of Kong Hub to Provide Better Protection for Microservices, APIs and Serverless Thousands of companies from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises use Kong as their API gateway. With a blazingly fast performance, it comes with a perfect feature set for everyone who manag...

Wallarm joins AI Leaders @ AI Summit

Wallarm joins a select group of AI startups and prominent technologists from Nvidia, Netflix, Microsoft and Amazon to participate in AI Summit on September 19–20 at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts. AI Summit puts AI to work by delivering real value in the business. In just 3 years this...

Wallarm Kubernetes Ingress Controller

Kubernetes is a popular technology which aims to improve how containers, microservices and other distributed components are managed across varied infrastructure. Since it was first announced by Google in 2014, it has grown in adoption and is now one of the leading system for automated deployment...

What’s New in Wallarm Node 2.10

We have recently released a new version of Wallarm Node. After your next update window, you will see some new features your DevOps team is certain to like. Firstly, your monitoring and reporting got a lot livelier. Starting with this version in addition to JSON format metrics can be exported in...

BlackHat Week is Coming Up

It’s that time of the year again and our team is packing up to go to Las Vegas. Our theme this year is DevSecOps. As companies are embracing DevOps processes, adopt continuous development and continuous integration and follow the agile methodology, it becomes obvious that the old security model o...

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...

ON PREM vs. CLOUD.

Security and Other considerations. Part 2 By Johan Nordstrom To be able to keep up with the development of new security threats, companies need to rethink their security strategies. The basics must be to decrease complexity and use automated solutions when possible. There has been a change in the...