WAF proactively protects websites and applications against fraud or data theft; blocking any suspicious activity. Inspecting every web request for cross-site scripting, SQL injection, path traversal and 400+ other types of attack, this protection ensures that your data, and your customer’s data, remains secure.

Web application firewalls can provide this confidence, especially when the application has been developed specifically for you, or is a customised version of off the shelf software. These types of applications are much more likely to have critical vulnerabilities such as SQL injection and cross site scripting, which may allow criminals to copy your entire database.

While penetration testing is a good control method to detect known vulnerabilities, your website could be frequently changing, and attacker’s methodologies are definitely frequently changing. This means what is considered safe today may end up being vulnerable tomorrow.