Insights, tutorials, and news about Web Application Firewalls and application security.
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),
User-driven recognition highlights HAProxy’s leadership in Load Balancing, WAF, and DDoS Protection for scaling modern ...
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 pure Go YARA engine optimized for web source code. 6.8x faster than go-yara, processing 57K scans/day in production. MIT licensed.
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?
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.
SafeLine, a self-hosted open-source WAF, targets SaaS bot abuse with semantic traffic analysis and 99.45% claimed detection accuracy. A viable option for teams that need full control over traffic inspection.
Ukrainian telecom Datagroup partners with Akamai to offer pay-as-you-go cloud WAF to small and medium businesses, lowering the barrier to enterprise-grade web application protection in a high-threat market.
Team Cymru links CyberStrikeAI, an open-source AI attack platform, to the threat actor who breached 500+ FortiGate firewalls. The tool automates scanning, exploitation, and post-exploitation using AI orchestration.
Cisco patches two CVSS 10.0 flaws in Secure Firewall Management Center. Both allow unauthenticated remote attackers to gain root access. Fourth max-severity firewall flaw in 8 months.
We scanned every Fortune 500 company's website to detect which Web Application Firewalls they use. Here's the full breakdown by provider, sector, and company size.
Cloudflare's free WAF is popular but not always the best fit. We compare 6 alternatives (AWS WAF, Sucuri, Imperva, Fastly, Wordfence, Akamai) on price, features, and protection quality to help you pick the right one.