Cloudflare Partners With Mastercard to Bring Threat Intelligence to Small Businesses
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We Let an AI Agent Run Autonomous Experiments on ModSecurity CRS. Here's What It Found.
Starting from stock OWASP CRS defaults, an AI agent improved balanced accuracy from 86.7% to 96.7% on CRS v3.3.8, and from 80.8% to 98.4% on CRS v4.24.0, running 30 experiments over 7 hours. Full methodology, results, and downloadable configs.
F5 CEO Says AI Is Accelerating the Need for Platform Consolidation
F5 CEO Francois Locoh-Donou argues that AI workloads are making hybrid multi-cloud even more complex, pushing enterprises toward consolidated delivery and security platforms.
IO River Uses Wasm to Run Check Point WAF Across Any CDN
IO River leverages WebAssembly to decouple WAF engines from CDN providers, starting with Check Point on Akamai. The goal: run your preferred WAF everywhere without vendor lock-in.
Red Access Adds SSE Capabilities to Existing Firewalls Without Rip-and-Replace
Red Access launches agentless SSE that layers on top of existing firewalls from Palo Alto, Fortinet, Cisco, and Check Point. Deployment in hours, not months.
F5 Upgrades WAF With AI Risk Scoring and Post-Quantum Readiness
F5 rolls out AI-powered WAF risk scoring, automated AI vulnerability remediation, bot defense for agentic AI, and post-quantum cryptography readiness across its ADSP platform.
Red Access Turns Any Firewall Into an AI-Ready Security Platform
Red Access, the agentless platform built to simplify security across all browsers, GenAI, SaaS and corporate apps, today announced Firewall-Native SSE, an agentless cloud layer that instantly upgrades any existing firewall with modern Security Service Edge (SSE),
HAProxy Ranked #3 Best Web Hosting Software Product in G2’s 2026 Best Software Awards
User-driven recognition highlights HAProxy’s leadership in Load Balancing, WAF, and DDoS Protection for scaling modern ...
Radware Launches Alteon Protect: Cloud-Augmented WAF Without SSL Key Sharing
Radware's new Alteon Protect separates cloud-based threat detection from on-device enforcement, letting organizations add WAF, bot, API, and DDoS protection to existing ADC infrastructure without rerouting traffic or sharing SSL certificates.
Sansec Open-Sources Yargo, a YARA Engine That Scans Malware 6.8x Faster
Sansec open-sources Yargo, a pure Go YARA engine optimized for web source code. 6.8x faster than go-yara, processing 57K scans/day in production. MIT licensed.
Akamai Bets Big on AI Inference Cloud as Security Takes a Back Seat
Akamai is projecting 45-50% cloud growth in 2026 and pushing hard into AI inference with NVIDIA GPUs. The security business that built this company is now "Act 2" in a three-act strategy. What does that mean for WAF customers?
WordPress Plugin Flaw Exploited to Create Admin Accounts, Wordfence Blocks 200+ Attacks
Critical CVE-2026-1492 in WPEverest's User Registration plugin (60K+ sites) lets attackers create admin accounts without authentication. Wordfence blocked 200+ attacks in 24 hours. Patch to 5.1.4 now.