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The year is 1997. Age of Empires is fueling an adrenaline rush among gamers across the world. Virtual builders and soldiers are focused on building forts to defend their resources from attackers who are trying to invade their settlements and demolish their defenses. Stronger the walls, better the chances of survival for the defenders.
23 years later, the need to build stronger walls has become critical for the entire world of IT. What has changed? Instead of defending the settlements and kingdoms, today, we need walls to protect our websites and applications from the aggressive environment of the internet. With innumerable cyber-attackers trying to take over our applications, the necessity of an efficient web application firewall (WAF) that can detect and eradicate the malicious attacks increases. However, most of these WAF can prevent familiar attacks and are not able to detect probable vulnerabilities or the means hackers might employ to infiltrate the existing security functions. This calls for tedious manual processes where security specialists need to identify real-time vulnerabilities and potential threats that the regular firewalls fail to detect. In fact, most traditional WAFs lack cloud deployment options and rely on regular expressions that are cumbersome and expensive to maintain.
However, Wallarm’s WAFs are highly distinct from the commonly used firewalls. Wonder how? Wallarm not only blocks attacks but also continuously monitors applications for critical flaws using an integrated vulnerability scanner. Upon detecting any abnormal behavior, it provides instructions to developers on fixing it and ensures a secure development lifecycle within the organization. Also, the powerful WAFs detect zero-day threats and safeguards unpatched applications by identifying exploits against unpatched applications.
Through its plethora of products such as the Cloud- Native WAF, Wallarm FAST, and Wallarm DAST, the company provides comprehensive protection to the modern web applications and APIs. These next-generation solutions employ advanced context-sensitive security rules that adapt to the application logic. It further defends all possible attacks, including XSS, XXE, SQL Injections, RCE, Bots, application abuse, logic bombs, and other potential OWASP threats. Furthermore, the easy-to-configure solutions diminish the need for manual rule configurations and can be easily customized according to the application architecture. With dozens of discovery techniques like sub domain enumeration, BGP and DNA smart lookups, RIPE records analysis, and others, the Wallarm DAST generates real-time alerts the moment new assets get exposed.
Penetrating into network perimeters like domains, IPs, and services, DAST actively pinpoints high-risk incidents by verifying malicious payloads from the attacks and detects app-specific vulnerabilities that hackers might exploit. Additionally, Wallarm FAST conducts dynamic security depending on the speed of the DevOps and transforms existing functional tests into security tests in the CI/CD. Equipped with striking cool features, FAST also enables DevOps teams to maintain the balance between the security of the application and short release cycles.
The Wallarm platform comprises of two important components—Wallarm Nodes and Wallarm Cloud. Deployed locally, the nodes administer the DPI approach to decode and analyze complex nested formats to inspect traffic and block malicious requests. Calculating the traffic metrics that characterize the application using statistical algorithms, the Nodes further send the reports to Wallarm Cloud, which is then fed into the Wallarm AI. Implementing a three-layered machine learning engine to reconstruct applications’ business logic, the Wallarm Cloud then identifies endpoints, data boundaries, and normal user behaviors to deploy customized security rules into the Nodes.
Wallarm not only blocks attacks but also continuously monitors applications for critical flaws using an integrated vulnerability scanner
In essence, managed and scaled by DevOps tool chain, the highly adaptive Wallarm security platform is reliable under any environment and is ideal for GCP, AZURE, and other public clouds. Also, the robust filtering nodes, usually available as pre-packaged images for Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, easily integrate with the public cloud account and restrict sensitive information within the respective VPN boundaries, hence protecting the data from a third party or SSL access.
Taking giant strides already, Wallarm is all set to disrupt the dynamics of web application security across the globe.
Wallarm Announces Seamless Policy Integration with MuleSoft AnyPoint Platform for Comprehensive API Security
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Empowering MuleSoft Users to Tackle Both Advanced and Emerging API Threats
SAN FRANCISCO - Wallarm today announced general availability of the seamless Application and API Security policy integration with MuleSoft AnyPoint Platform. In today's digital landscape, business and technical leaders must ensure that their Apps and APIs remain shielded, regardless of the deployment avenue an organization selects. For organizations committed to safeguarding and managing their APIs comprehensively, this combination of Wallarm and MuleSoft offers a compelling and obvious choice.
The Significance of API Security in Contemporary Enterprise In the modern business landscape, APIs have become integral for linking applications and driving digital transformation. Wallarm introduces an innovative solution that bolsters cloud security and seamlessly integrates with the MuleSoft API management and integration platform, fortifying security and compliance.
The management of APIs holds pivotal importance for organizations, and the market offers a range of commercial solutions. Be it established platforms such as MuleSoft, Apigee, or Kong, or external tools like Azion Edge and Akamai Edge, the choice of deploying and managing business-critical APIs hinges on factors like scalability, performance, and existing infrastructure. Irrespective of the chosen route, the necessity for robust API security that can adapt to various deployment methods is paramount.
For organizations in pursuit of comprehensive API security, Wallarm offers tailor-made MuleSoft integration that aligns with a multitude of deployment strategies. This allows for external deployment of the Wallarm node, application of security policies, and custom code implementation. It also facilitates thorough analysis and ensures protection against potential threats. Customers can opt for a monitor-only mode or activate full detect and respond capabilities, empowering real-time threat prevention and safeguarding legitimate API usage.
“Wallarm is excited to introduce an advanced cloud-based security policy that's agile and fully integrated with MuleSoft, a leading integration and API management platform in the market," said Ivan Novikov, CEO and co-founder of Wallarm. "Our solution offers real-time threat analysis and mitigation, complementing and significantly enhancing MuleSoft’s platform by embedding granular security policies directly into the API flow. Now enterprises can confidently protect their essential API frameworks with a unified, scalable strategy that upholds both performance and compliance standards.”
Seamless Integration of Wallarm Policies with MuleSoft The synergy between Wallarm and MuleSoft creates a powerful "Better Together" solution for customers, offering robust and proven API protection to organizations. MuleSoft's Anypoint Platform streamlines the deployment and management of APIs, while Wallarm's cloud-based API security platform provides comprehensive defense against a range of threats, including OWASP Top-10 vulnerabilities, zero-day exploits, and API Abuse, such as DDoS and Credential Stuffing attacks.
This combination delivers numerous security advantages for organizations, reducing the need for ongoing and costly manual interventions, including:
• Advanced API protection
• Automated API discovery and inventory
• Enhanced threat analysis
• Automated API security
Wallarm offers a unified platform for the management and security of API integrations, resulting in reduced costs, simplified processes, and improved operational efficiency. This holistic approach not only safeguards against data breaches and potential financial losses but also strengthens compliance, enhances governance, and instills greater confidence among end-users.
Wallarm's integration with the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is custom-tailored to address current application and API challenges while also preparing for future expansion. This integration provides MuleSoft users with comprehensive security protection and peace of mind.
Company
Wallarm
Management
Ivan Wallarm, Founder and CEO
Description
Wallarm is helping customers to implement application security functions for CI/CD environments. It is a high-performance WAF with the ability to verify the impact of malicious payloads in real time, allowing SecOps and DevOps teams to focus on real risks without manual attacks analysis. Wallarm is adapting security (blocking) rules automatically for each release which ensures low false positives rate even for agile CI/CD approach. It is a scalable hybrid-architecture solution with nodes deployed as packages, Docker containers and dynamic modules for NGINX/plus, while machine learning is performed by Wallarm cloud service
