Today, dozens of vendors offer physical, virtual and cloud-based solutions with varying capabilities and complementary technologies. In the past, your WAF choices were limited to a few vendors selling a physical appliance with similar capabilities. It’s also that WAFs are changing, giving buyers more options. One of the reasons for WAF growth is simply the increasing number of applications that need protection, as well as relentless attacks on those applications. Do a web search on WAF market growth, and most studies predict 17-20 percent growth, about double that for the overall cybersecurity industry. In fact, according to the 2018 Global Security Report, the Trustwave SpiderLabs team identified at least one vulnerability in 100 percent of the applications they investigated.
While there is a promising industry trend toward more secure development, applications still house major vulnerabilities as you can see. Other than patching the flaws, experts agree that WAFs rank next on the list in terms of solution. Just consider the high-impact “Drupalgeddon 2” and Apache Struts vulnerabilities, which have exposed millions of websites to compromise and backdoor infections. But even as cybercriminals have gotten sharper at sidestepping traditional security, WAFs have maintained their value. Web application firewalls have long served as one of an organization’s bedrock security technologies.
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