Enterprise customers are growing their footprint Globallyand would like to extend their solutions to suppliers, partners and customers through web application soffering numerous benefits including brand enhancement, access to real-time information, and quick online transactions, all while reducing cost and increasingrevenue.
However, extending the business to the web comes with significant risk toapplications, databases and critical data that are continuously exposed to moresophisticated and targeted threats.
Protecting the processing and transmission ofcritical information through web applications while complying with government andindustry regulations can be a complex, labour intensive undertaking that must be approached as part of a comprehensive application security strategy.
Web application firewalls have emerged as an important part of an overall applicationsecurity strategy (see Error! Reference source not found.), protecting theorganisation’s most critical assets, maintaining business continuity andcomplementing other application security practices.
As IT teams explore the role web application firewalls must play within their security practice, they are finding they require significant resources and expertise to implement, maintain and Monitor.