Wallarm Finalist at 2017 Red Herring Top 100 North America

LOS ANGELES — 6.06.2017 — Wallarm has been selected as a finalist for Red Herring’s Top 100 North America award, one of the technology industry’s most prestigious prizes. Finalists for the awards are among the continent’s brightest and most innovative private ventures. Their place among North...

What to look for when considering a WAF?

When web based applications become important components of business IP, protecting these applications is a key part of doing business. Most of IT and DevOps professionals are not thinking whether they need a Web Application Firewall WAF. Instead, they are trying to decide which WAF is right for...

Do you think web passwords are the weakest link in security? Indeed they are.

Between 500K and 500M sets of credentials have been compromised over the recent years, according to various sources. Just last week, a compromise of an educational service Edmondo has been reported to expose as many as 78M user accounts. At the same time, individual users are exposed to so many...

Wallarm is Kairos Society fellow!

Do you know what Kairos Society is? Frankly speaking, we had never heard of it until the beginning of the year. Now we’re amazed at how lucky we are. Here is why. What is Kairos society? Kairos team reached out to us by saying that we’re one of the nominees for Top50 Innovative Companies 2017 —...

Is Docker Swarm going to change how we do microservices APIs?

During the DockerCon a couple of weeks ago the new native swarm functionality was one of the highlighted themes. What is a swarm? A swarm is a cluster of Docker engines, or nodes, which acts as an orchestrator, monitor and ingress load balancer for all the services deployed on swarm. The Docker...

Understanding Your Monthly Security Reports

When we first starting a conversation with our prospects, we are frequently asked, “Just how will I know that Wallarm is working?” To help answer that, let’s take a look at the report we sent to one of our customers last week to understand what kind of threats Wallarm defends agains. Wallarm...

Five Reasons Why I Joined Wallarm

By Johan Nordstrom The question of “what made you change jobs?” may be old, but the answer with my move to Wallarm is new and clear. I have a vision how to address the dynamic threat landscape of today and Wallarm’s innovative approach to security is in line with these ideas. In my 30 years caree...

Kong and Wallarm Partner Up to Boost Microservices API Security

Wallarm has partnered with Mashape to provide the microservices community with API security. Mashape enterprise customers who use Kong API gateway can now quickly add API security protection without change in Kong user’s deployment. Read more about Kong and Wallarm partnership in this blog. Today...

The power of Wallarm search engine

In this article I would like to show and explain my personal use cases of the Wallarm search engine. The cool thing about it is human readable search with intuitive commands. Just look at this search command before we start: attacks incidents vulns today RCE 502 For a security engineer looking at...

Wallarm Teams up with NGINX Plus to Provide Advanced Security

Wallarm is excited to be a pioneer security vendor in NGINX Certified Module program and provide trusted and verified security functionality to NGINX Plus customers. “We are pleased to announce that Wallarm is now part of the NGINX Plus Certified Module program with the Wallarm Next Generation WA...

Using WebSocket as your Real Time Protocol? Wallam got you covered.

In the beginning there was http 1 or 2, web pages were static and did not do much beyond displaying static text and images. Life has changed since… Web applications discovered that bi-directional communication between the browser and the web server is essential. Of course, http protocol, with it’...

Google’s lessons in security: bring together security engineering and incident response

Last week during Google Next conference, we have heard an interesting talk where a google security PM, Andy Chang, explained what Google has learned from preventing, detecting and responding to cyber attacks over the years. Not surprisingly, Google is paying a lot of attention to securing the...

How to protect web applications on Google Cloud Platform with WAF?

Many of the developers we speak to are interested in taking advantage of Google Compute Cloud for developing and hosting their web applications. The advantages are many from reasonable costs to built in scalability to high level of availability built right into the platform. However, the develope...

New Struts2 Remote Code Execution exploit caught in the wild

Two days ago Apache has published a fix for the new Remote Code Execution vulnerability in Struts2. Struts2 RCE attacks in the wild This vulnerability allows attacker to execute arbitrary Java code on the application server. We can confirm that caught the first exploit for this vulnerability from...

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...