The Web App Firewall Is Dead and We Know Who Killed It

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Check Point sponsored this post. Best practice for securing web applications has evolved to simply deploying a WAF in front of your app.

Every app is unique and each piece of code is different and nuanced with its own set of vulnerabilities.

It is inevitable that humans need to step in and help to calibrate the WAF and that’s when the maintenance becomes heavy duty.

If you are using a WAF that relies on the assumption that anything in your environment is generic, your WAF is defunct and it is time to call in the undertakers.

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