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- Safety in the Cloud(s): 'Vaporizing' the Web Application Firewall to Secure Cloud Computing
- Cloud computing was not designed for security, although organizations such as Cloud Security Alliance CSA and Open Web Application Security Project OWASP are making great strides in helping the industry solve the myriad security problems confronting cloud computing. The benchmark guidelines established by the CSA in the document, Guidance for...
- White papers 2009-07-22
- Patterns for Application Firewalls
- Enterprise applications are typically implemented as web applications and may use web services. This provides a flexible architecture suitable for B2B communication but it may introduce new security threats. This paper discusses here an analysis pattern for an Application Firewall, intended to protect the applications from some of these threats....
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Web Application Firewall: A Cost Effective Way to Improve Web Application Security
- With all the options out there today, it's hard to know who to trust. This webcast will help to find cost effective ways to improve the web application security. The presenter of this webcast will throw light on the latest developments in the industry and advice on choosing the right...
- Webcasts 2009-01-01
- Unchain Your Network With an Application Firewall
- This paper discusses the new risks facing organizations in light of the prevalence of Web-based applications and offers best practices for gaining control of applications, data and bandwidth. It also introduces the SonicWALL E-Class Network Security Appliance NSA and NSA Series solutions, designed to help organizations of all sizes address...
- White papers 2008-12-09
- Information Supplement: Application Reviews and Web Application Firewalls Clarified
- Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard PCI DSSRequirement 6.6 provides two options that are intended to address common threats to cardholder data and ensure that input to running web applications from untrusted environments is inspected "Top to Bottom." The intent of Requirement 6.6 is to ensure web applications exposed to...
- White papers 2008-10-01
- The Business Case for Web Application Firewalls
- Web application firewalls offer a variety of business benefits such as rapid application deployment, significant cost savings and increased communication between development and security teams. In addition, they also provide security advantages that complement secure coding initiatives, vulnerability scanning efforts and network IDS/IPS. As a result, a web application firewall...
- White papers 2008-09-01
- Vulnerability Assessment Plus Web Application Firewall (VA+WAF)
- New technology developed by WhiteHat Security and F5 Networks enables organizations to immediately mitigate discovered vulnerabilities using a web application firewall. WhiteHat's Sentinel service provides continuous assessments of web applications for vulnerabilities. Once detected and validated by WhiteHat, detailed information about these vulnerabilities are passed to the F5 BIG-IP Application...
- White papers 2008-06-01
- Best Practices: Use of Web Application Firewalls
- Web applications of all kinds, whether online shops or partner portals, have in recent years increasingly become the target of hacker attacks. The attackers are using methods which are specifically aimed at exploiting potential weak spots in the web application software itself - and this is why they are not...
- White papers 2008-05-01
- Information Supplement: Requirement 6.6 Code Reviews and Application Firewalls Clarified
- The intent of Requirement 6.6 is to ensure web applications exposed to the public Internet are protected against the most common types of malicious input. There is a great deal of public information available regarding web application vulnerabilities. The minimum vulnerabilities to consider are described in Requirement 6.5. Proper implementation...
- White papers 2008-04-15
- Security expert discusses a possible future for PCI-DSS... it's grim
- Jeremiah Grossman discussed some recent comments about section 6.6 of the PCI standard made by Standards Council General Manager Bob Russo in a recent Information Security magazine article. I found a lot of thoughts I share with Grossman. Grossman says: I have a love-hate relationship with PCI-DSS. Love it...
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Importance of Web Application Firewall Technology for Protecting Web-Based Resources
- Web-based applications and services have changed the landscape of information delivery and exchange in today's corporate, government, and educational arenas. Ease of access, increased availability of information, and the richness of web services have universally increased productivity and operational efficiencies. These increases have led to heavier reliance on web-based services...
- White papers 2008-01-10
- Apple admits to 'misleading' Leopard firewall settings
- Apple has fessed up to at least three serious design weaknesses in the new application-based firewall that ships with Mac OS X Leopard. The acknowledgment from Cupertino comes less than a month after independent researchers threw cold water on Apple's claim that Leopard's firewall can block...
- Blog posts 2007-11-15
- Application Firewalls
- As businesses place more applications on the web, they expose more of their sensitive customer data to hackers. Browser-based applications tunnel through the entire security perimeter of an organization, giving users unprecedented access to internal systems. It's little wonder that the majority of attacks today target the application directly. For...
- White papers 2007-10-01
- Why Organizations Need Web Application Firewalls
- Web application firewalls offer immediate and effective protection for web applications and help organizations pass security audits that demonstrate regulatory compliance. In addition, web application firewalls facilitate secure coding initiatives by giving security teams visibility into their applications' defects, transactions, architectures, and communications. This paper will discuss why web application...
- White papers 2007-09-01
- Gmail vulnerability disclosed at Defcon
- Gmail vulnerability disclosed at DefconGoogle Security2 weeks ago, Google had a series of security issues reported in Singapore, it was well documented here:http://jvyloh.blogspot.com/2007/07/google-serious-security-breach-final.htmlHow can I set SSL "always on" in Gmail?Can you tell me how I can use the SSL version of Gmail?And does this apply to both the browser...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-05
- You Say I Need An Application Firewall?
- In this paper, we will describe the evolution of firewalls from the standpoint of the controls that they apply on data, and we will explain why the currently accepted "state-of-the-art" firewall really represents a step backwards in most cases for securing perimeters.
- White papers 2007-06-15
- Application Firewall Overview
- The Intelligent Application Gateway IAG 2007 application firewall component is a next-generation positive logic firewall designed to secure applications from network and application-layer attacks through an easy-to-manage and integrated approach. Recognized by industry analysts as a leading secure application firewall in its own right, the application firewall is a critical...
- White papers 2007-02-01
- The New PCI Requirement: Application Firewall Vs. Code Review
- Those enterprises which handles credit card information, must meet the requirements under the new Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard version 1.1 PCI DSS. With PCI requirement 6.6, the brand new Web application security requirement, and its company's choice - they can have their code reviewed by an external company...
- White papers 2006-12-12
- If Google and eBay can't do it...
- How can you expect to secure your web applications if even Google and eBay with their thousands of developers fall prey to hackers? According to Websense this week one of Google’s services is harboring a keystroke logger that is at the main IP address for Googlepages.com. It targets particular...
- Blog posts 2006-06-20
- Web Application Firewalls.
- Anyone who has worked as a security auditor, sometimes called a “white hat hacker� , knows that most organizations have gotten pretty good at configuring their firewalls and patching their externally facing servers. Doing a scan with tools such as nessus reveals very few exploitable vulnerabilities. But,...
- Blog posts 2005-03-21
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