Good-bye “good enough”: Why escaping input now matters more than blocking
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Beyond Security Tools: Where Does 90% of the Total Cost of Web Application Security Come From?
Uncovering the Hidden 90% of Your Application Security Cost Security leaders are often confronted by...
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Generative AI is Exposing the Limits of WAFs. RedShield Approach Addresses the Gaps.
Generative artificial intelligence has dramatically lowered the cost and effort required to mount so...
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From 50 Gbps to 5.6 Tbps: The Reality of Hyper‑Volumetric DDoS
What’s changed isn’t just the volume, but the strategy. Attackers now favour short, high-impact “bli...
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The Hidden Economics of DDoS and Bot Attacks: How to Tip the Balance
At RedShield, our three-horizon model flips that equation. Our three-horizon defence model is design...
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Why “blocking everything” is not the same as being secure (and how RedShield proves it)
A common expectation of non-security teams is that a WAF should automatically block all traffic that...
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Comparing the RedShield-AWS DDoS Solution to Market Alternatives
With the prolific growth in cybercrime, the number of infected devices under the control of criminal...
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RedShield's Response to the WAF Bypass techniques disclosed by Claroty
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Best practices for web authentication
The Verizon Data Breach Report of 2020 provides a comprehensive analysis of the source of many high-...
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What are Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF, XSRF) Attacks? And how can you effectively mitigate them?
A CSRF attack forces a logged-on victim's browser to send a request to a vulnerable web application,...
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What are Dictionary Attacks? And how can you effectively mitigate them?
Cybercriminals generate permutations of words or character sets, repeated passwords, or variations -...
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RedShield has developed shields to mitigate “Log4j” (CVE-2021-44228)
A zero-day exploit of Apache Log4j 2 (“Log4Shell”, CVE-2021-44228) was disclosed on 9 December 2021....
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TLSv1.0 and v1.1 are being deprecated: Here’s how to upgrade, while keeping your customers connected
And if you’re not ready for it (and more than 40% of the top million sites still support 1.0 and 1.1...
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How can you protect your web applications (and business) from carding attacks?
Australia Post’s Inside Australian Online Shopping 2021 report highlights a 26.9% YOY growth in onli...
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Introducing Second-Factor Authentication (2FA) Shields
Today, we are excited to announce a brand new function that RedShield has developed to address a spe...
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Risk, resourcing, and legacy applications: Application security challenges for state and local government
Faced with thousands of applications in complex environments to manage, a global skill-shortage of a...
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A Guide to a Best Practice Web Application Operational Security Program
With new application vulnerabilities being published at over 50 a day, the race starts again tomorro...
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Six Misconceptions About Shielding
Misconception #1: Fixing code is always better, more robust, or more secure When vulnerabilities are...
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2021 TAG Cyber Annual: An interview with Andy Prow, CEO & Co-Founder, RedShield
Today, applications are arguably the most important entity to keep up and running on an organization...
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Enabling Secure Digital Transformation: Strategies to Secure Your Project, Customers, and Organization
However, the vast number of ‘moving parts’ in a DX initiative presents new levels of complexity. And...
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Web Application Firewall (WAF)
As one might expect, shielding is a good metaphor for much of what we do in cyber security. Any time...
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Urgent Action Needed to Protect E-Commerce Sites From E-Skimming Attacks Targeting Magento Vulnerabilities
With the sustained Magecart attacks targeting Magento CMS, and the outdated version no longer provid...
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