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Secure Your Web Applications Against Online Threats with eNlight WAF

Started by manoharparakh, January 13, 2021, 10:42:13 AM

manoharparakh

Cyber-attackers are constantly targeting user web applications and websites with the ill intent to gain access to sensitive business information. These increasing numbers of data breaches have kept the top-management, and other business decision-makers worried. To avoid all such losses, ESDS has developed eNlight WAF, a specially-engineered & first of a kind Cloud-hosted WAF. This Cloud-hosted WAF filters out all the incoming and outgoing web traffic by restricting malicious threats like SQL Injections, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Attacks.

eNlight WAF allows the users to create their own rules for blocking all web attacks with minimal latency towards page response. eNlight WAF ensures source IP reputation and blocks all blacklisted, spammer and TOR networks. It is a highly cost-effective secure solution that allows users to pay only for utilized resources like CPU, Bandwidth and RAM.

Salient Features of eNlight WAF

•   Virtual Patching

ESDS eNlight WAF generates a set of rules for rectifying the identified vulnerabilities from an uploaded vulnerability scanner report

•   Backed by Machine Learning

Using mathematical algorithms, eNlight WAF uses an approach for learning and modeling typical traffic along with detection of any abnormal requests

•   Anomaly Detection

Anomaly detection is integrated with eNlight WAF that allows the system administrators to identify any form of risky behavior and accordingly develop effective filtering policies

•   Load Distribution

Using the HA-Proxy, eNlight WAF distributes all of the incoming traffic across several nodes present in the cluster, which is then dispatched to a farm of web servers

•   Secure Applications and Websites

Users can add multiple applications and websites using customized configurations. A simple and easy-to-understand dashboard helps in easy setup and management of web assets with ease

Value-Added Benefits of eNlight WAF

•   Auto-Scalable WAF Solution- eNlight Cloud, the world's first dual-patented Cloud hosting platform, supports eNlight WAF, which allows scalability of applications as per demand

•   Auto Protection- Auto protection protects user's websites against OWASP Top-10 Vulnerabilities and other online threats. The user needs to add his IP or subnet for granting/denying access to any website

•   Cost-Effective Solution- With eNlight WAF, there is no need for any additional hardware or applications as it works on a pay-per-use model

•   Enhanced Protection Against Browser Hacking- With eNlight WAF, users can terminate their SSL connection without incurring much overheads or latency

Leverage eNlight WAF today and secure your critical data hosted on websites and web applications against all online threats and vulnerabilities.

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https://www.esds.co.in/waf


Akshay_M

Of course, here are some guidelines for secure web applications.

Avoid Using Simple Passwords
Most individuals are accustomed to using their name, birthdate, or favourite sports team in some variant to construct a password they won't forget, but hackers are also likely to steal those passwords.

The most popular tactic employed by hackers is to gain access to user databases that contain clear-text passwords (i.e., ones that have not been encrypted), which can subsequently be used for bad things like identity theft or distributed denial-of-service attacks.

Since many users employ combinations like admin, password, or 12345, which are simple to guess, they can quickly decrypt these passwords from usernames. The best method to avoid becoming one of those statistics is to choose powerful passphrases instead: words or poetry that stick in your memory but are difficult to decipher for others.

Instead of using host names, use subdomains.
Use subdomains rather than hostnames to divide your business and personal lives on a single device or server. While you can't completely eliminate security issues, you can make yourself a more difficult target to attack.

Set up a CAPTCHA
Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart is known as CAPTCHA (sometimes called a human verification system). On websites, CAPTCHA is typically used to confirm that you are a human. However, it also serves a variety of other purposes in computers, including password recovery, user authentication, logins, and making forms accessible to programmes that use adaptive technology, such as screen readers (software that reads text on screen).

Or keyboard-only user interfaces, which stop webmail services from automatically sending spam. The list is endless! It's a useful tool for handling possibly troublesome automatic user input.

Regularly check your website for vulnerabilities.
Cookies are frequently used to save shopping cart or session data. However, it is exceedingly dangerous to save important data in cookies, including passwords, credit card numbers, and social security numbers.

It can be easily obtained by a number of methods (including browser malware) or even unintentionally revealed in log files, which are frequently kept on a server along with cookies that are not automatically deleted between sessions.

Instead, you should think about employing a database storage system to retain session data, which would lessen the risk of unauthorised access and help protect you. For instance, some browsers enable SQLite databases, which, with the appropriate configuration, can be used in instead of cookies.

Put secure web server configuration settings into practise.
One of the most well-known pieces of software in history, the Apache HTTP Server is in charge of hosting roughly two-thirds of websites on the Internet at this time.

Additionally, it means that more individuals than ever before test new, weak code, which blackhats might utilise to their advantage. These dishonest hackers construct viruses to steal financial information from unwitting victims, or they attack servers with malware that infects thousands more people through email or downloads.

If you intend to run a website with sensitive information on it, Apache security must be maintained. Here are some configuration adjustments you can do to make your system more secure.

Continue testing as you release updates.
You can find code weaknesses that hackers could attack by regularly developing and running penetration tests. Penetration testing imitates actual assaults to see how deep a system can be penetrated by an intruder.

Additionally, manual pen tests could miss particular architecture or design faults that automated techniques can find. If you don't repair these vulnerabilities, they might make it possible for hackers to break into a network or target web application users with malware assaults. Testing following deployment ensures that new code doesn't produce more vulnerabilities than it fixes.

Thorough testing is essential to ensuring integrity while updating apps since every time you add functionality to a software, it exposes security flaws.