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Will Open Source Save WAFs?

Submitted by Ofer Shezaf on 17 February 2011 - 9:30pm
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It is no secret that the WAF market has not sky rocketed in recent years. With most open source security closing up, open source security has also seen better days. Do the two stand better chances together? Two open source WAFs announcements from WAF veterans during RSA will put this to a test....

Art of Defence offers cloud based WAF on Amazon

Submitted by Ofer Shezaf on 11 November 2009 - 11:33pm
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It was only a matter of time before someone creates an in the cloud WAF based on Amazon cloud computing services. Art of defence, one of the early WAF in the cloud solution provider. has won the innovation race this time.

RSA WAF Trend: WAF in the cloud

Submitted by Ofer Shezaf on 22 April 2009 - 1:22pm
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As usual, RSA is the time of year companies choose for major announcements. The WAF announcements this year focus, following the general computing trend, around cloud computing:

  • Art of Defense, a WAF vendor from Germany, has launched its SaaS WAF solution which target mostly service providers and SaaS vendors.
  • Savvis, a web hosting turning into cloud services company, has added WAF in the cloud offering based on Imperva SecureSphere WAF.
  • SecureWorks, a managed security services provides, announced full management for Imperva SecureSphere and monitoring for other WAFs.

Two challenges facing WAFs in the cloud are bandwidth and complexity.