A good WAF secures not just your websites and cloud applications but will protect against bots and protect containers, databases, VMs and APIs too. It will have a low rate of false positives, which is becoming critical as the volume of attacks increase. If you are a small business then a cloud-based one has a lower management overhead.
Part of the value of a WAF is the ability to quickly react to new threats by adding rules, instead of having to wait for full vendor patches to address vulnerabilities and then going through a full patch test & deploy cycle.
You still need to keep up to date on your patches, but for some zero-day vulnerabilities if you have a WAF in place you can react much faster.
WAFs safeguard web applications by filtering and monitoring HTTP traffic between a web application and the internet. A primary defense mechanism, they protect against attacks such as cross-site forgery, cross-site-scripting (XSS), and SQL injection.Designed to protect web applications from a wide range of threats, a WAF acts as a barrier, preventing unauthorized access and malicious traffic. Users find that effective WAF solutions offer a balance between security and performance without...
-Application security
-OWASP top 10
-Protection on two aspects: detection/prevention of malicious IPs or threats
-Certain WAFs protect against DoS, ...
A good WAF secures not just your websites and cloud applications but will protect against bots and protect containers, databases, VMs and APIs too. It will have a low rate of false positives, which is becoming critical as the volume of attacks increase. If you are a small business then a cloud-based one has a lower management overhead.
Part of the value of a WAF is the ability to quickly react to new threats by adding rules, instead of having to wait for full vendor patches to address vulnerabilities and then going through a full patch test & deploy cycle.
You still need to keep up to date on your patches, but for some zero-day vulnerabilities if you have a WAF in place you can react much faster.