Have you ever thought of which web application firewall (WAF) is the best-suited for your company’s needs and wants? With the different types of WAF available in the market, why do we highly recommend you to choose a cloud-based WAF?
We have shortlisted the 4 main reasons on why cloud-based WAFs are a great option to adopt:
1. Scalable with your business growth
2. Ease of deployment
3. Protection against a variety of attacks
4. Low cost and maintenance
Scalable with Your Business Growth
Cloud-based WAFs scale along with your business growth. Such high flexibility allows you to easily upgrade your WAF without any fuss. This ensures that you only pay for what your business requires.
For network-based WAFs, they are limited by their hardware capacity. Scaling up your cybersecurity tools will require the purchase of additional hardware.
Ease of Deployment
Cloud-based WAFs can be easily deployed, simply by editing the domain name system (DNS) settings. You can easily manage the WAF’s configuration regardless of where you are located.
On the other hand, physical equipment has to be set up on-site adjacent to your web application server for network-based WAFs. For host-based WAFs, your web application server could potentially slow down due to the WAF running on your server’s resources, thus creating an additional surface for Denial of Service (DoS) attacks.
Protection Against a Variety of Attacks
Cloud-based WAFs provide full-coverage protection from application layer attacks and mitigation against DoS attacks. This is done by monitoring your web traffic and blocking all suspicious traffic from accessing your web application. The WAFs also automatically scan your server for vulnerabilities and apply virtual patches before the server is compromised.
Low Cost and Maintenance
Cloud-based WAFs are available at a more affordable cost as compared to their counterparts. Additionally, only minimal maintenance is required for the WAFs. These eliminate the need for making capital investments into software updates, hardware replacement and having a professional on-site IT team. These are otherwise required for network- and host-based WAFs.
You have the option of engaging 24x7x365 managed services. This is a great option for companies that do not have the time and resources to manage the security system. This also enables you to better focus on growing your business.
How Polaris Safeguards Your Web Application
Polaris is a next-generation WAF that is primarily offered as a hosted cloud solution. Its Web Presence Protection (WPP) platform monitors seemingly innocuous web traffic patterns across multiple web applications to predict coordinated stealth attacks. Polaris’ solution is highly customisable and provides effective round-the-clock managed detection and response capabilities for internet-facing organisations seeking to improve their cybersecurity posture.
