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Some crucial capabilities that a WAAP solution requires to accomplish these goals include: Web Application and API Protection Key CapabilitiesĪ WAAP solution needs to be capable of protecting an organization’s web applications against a wide range of attacks without requiring a great deal of oversight and hands-on management. WAAP solutions can terminate TLS connections, enabling them to identify malicious content and sensitive data within web application traffic. Encrypted Traffic Inspection is Needed: Over half of all web traffic uses TLS encryption now, which is good for privacy but bad for detecting malware and other malicious content.The level of security inspection provided by a traditional intrusion detection and prevention system (IDS/IPS) is insufficient for identifying and protecting against threats to web applications. HTTP Traffic Can Be Complex: Web applications can be complicated, and attackers take advantage of this complexity to hide malicious content.A deeper level of inspection is required to differentiate between legitimate traffic and potential attacks. Attacks against web applications and web APIs use legitimate web ports and protocols like HTTP(S), making it impossible to only filter out malicious attack traffic in this way.

Port-Based Blocking Doesn’t Work: Traditional firewalls are designed to filter traffic based upon the ports and protocols in use.

This continuous change means that traditional web application firewalls (WAFs) that require manual tuning and rule development can’t keep up, making a solution with built-in automation and hands-off administration a necessity.

Modern Applications Change Frequently: The rise of Agile development methodologies and DevOps means that modern web applications and APIs are in a state of constant flux.

WAAP solutions, with continuous self-learning, can help an organization to stay abreast of the rapidly evolving application security threat landscape. Attempting to protect against them with traditional, signature-based detection solutions is an unscalable approach.

Signature matching doesn’t work for application security: Web applications are constantly under attack, and these threats change regularly.

Some examples of challenges that traditional solutions struggle to solve:

However, traditional security solutions are not effective at protecting these applications, making WAAP a necessity. Web applications and APIs are exposed to the public Internet and have access to a great deal of sensitive data, making them a prime target for cybercriminals.