Rethinking Web Application Firewalls

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Web Application Firewalls (WAF) first emerged in the late 1990s as Web server attacks became more common. Today, in the context of cloud native technologies, there’s an ongoing rethinking of how a WAF should be applied. No longer is it solely static applications sitting behind a WAF, said Tigera CEO https://www.linkedin.com/in/ratantipirneni/, president and CEO of https://tigera.io/?utm_content=inline-mention in this episode of The New Stack Makers. “With cloud native applications and a microservices distributed architecture, you have to assume that something inside your cluster has been compromised,” Tipirneni said.

The vulnerabilities are so numerous now and cloud native applications have larger attack surfaces with no way to mitigate vulnerabilities using traditional means, Tiperneni explained.

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