Application & API Security

Applications and APIs introduce ways for hackers to penetrate the core systems. Organizations need to ensure application security while minimizing disruption to internal processes and stakeholders. 

Application security is about the use of tools and processes to secure applications across their life cycle. Organizations shouldn’t wait for an application to go live in order to secure it. Security should be built in from the initial conception stages and then continue throughout the development lifecycle.

Web Application Firewall

Web applications allow employees secure access to critical business resources of the front end (website), intermediate layer (application) and the backend (database). Web Application Firewalls (WAF) provide focused, layered web application threat protection for enterprises, custom application service providers, and SaaS providers. Using advanced techniques, WAF provides advanced bi-directional defense against buffer overflows, malicious sources, cross-site scripting threats, DoS attacks and refined threats like SQL injection, cookie poisoning, and several other web application attack types.

WAF is a type of reverse-proxy, protecting the server from exposure by having clients pass through the WAF before reaching the server.

API Gateway & API Security

An API gateway is an essential component of an API management solution that also aids in complementing API Security. These gateways enforce policies that control security aspects such as authentication, authorization, or traffic management. However, API gateways and API security solutions both play different roles.

An API security solution is needed to provide protection against sophisticated attacks against your APIs while API security provides protection for both public-facing and backend APIs without slowing down the development teams. It works across legacy, hybrid, and cloud-native environments, web reverse proxy, or API gateways.

Multi-Scan Engines

Productivity files such as documents and images can contain hidden malware. Enterprises need a robust layer of protection between uploaded files and their network.


The Content Disarm and Reconstructions (CDR) process focuses on verifying the validity of the file structure on the binary level and then disarms both known and unknown threats. CDR is an advanced threat prevention technology that does not rely on detection. Instead, it assumes all files are malicious and sanitizes and rebuilds each file ensuring full usability with safe content. The technology prevents known and unknown threats, including zero-day targeted attacks and threats that are equipped with malware evasion technology.

Sandboxing

Sandboxing is a very crucial component of the Advanced Threat Protection strategy. The sandbox engine is a secure environment of virtual systems where suspicious emails can be opened and executed, including attachments or links and, static, behavioral and network based analysis can be performed.

It provides a complete analysis of the potential threat of a file or link. Sandboxing  tests unknown items in a secure, instrumented environment to see how they behave, in order to turn the unknown into the known, thus preventing a potential attack.

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