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Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a product called CloudFront, which, when combined with AWS WAF, helps businesses protect their web applications from intrusion. However, during an engagement, it was discovered that the “SQL Database” payload could be bypassed. Why Modshield SB is a great AWS WAF alternate? When Modshield SB(Our very own Web Application Firewall) […]

Information security, abbreviated as InfoSec, is the process of safeguarding information by mitigating information risks. It’s a component of information risk management. It typically entails preventing or reducing the likelihood of unauthorized/inappropriate data access or the illegal use, disclosure, disruption, deletion, corruption, modification of information. Information security is achieved through a structured risk management process […]

Over many years, the vehicle and system development process have been refined to standardize specification and verification tasks. Road vehicles — Cybersecurity engineering focuses on cybersecurity risks in the design and development of car electronics.  Major components: The goal of ISO SAE 21434 is to build on the ISO 26262 functional safety standard and provide […]

Web Application Firewall filters web traffic between the internet and web application. WAF is based on a predefined set of instructions and customized according to the risk and specific needs of the web application. It analyzes the incoming packets and filters out possible threats at the application level. WHY DO YOU NEED ONE? With the […]

The Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act was established as federal law by the government of the United States to set the standard for sensitive data protection. Companies dealing with Protected Health Information(PHI) must adopt physical network and process security measures to ensure HIPAA compliance. Hospitals, doctors, clinics, psychologists, dentists, chiropractors, nursing homes, and pharmacies that […]

ModSecurity is an open-source, cross-platform WAF(Web Application Firewall) designed primarily for Apache HTTP servers. It provides an event-based programming language that offers an array of HTTP requests, along with response filtering capabilities and various other security features across multiple platforms. It is a freeware released under apache license 2.0. ModSecurity offers protection from a wide […]

What is WAF? Web Application Firewall is for filtering web traffic between the internet and web application. WAF is based on a predefined set of instructions and customized according to the risk and specific needs of the web application. It analyses the incoming packets and filters out possible threats at the application level. Why do […]

Every business has a set of assets or sensitive data that malefactors may seem to exploit regardless of its size. These threat factors generally have different motives, some of them are good, some are not. Based on the motives hackers are categorized into six. White hat hackers Black hat hackers Grey hat hackers Red hat […]

National Cyber Security Alliance and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) marked October is cyber security month, as a step to make people stay more safe and secure online. As a part of this program, some of the tips to enhance cyber awareness among the personnel are discussed below. 1. Make your passwords long: […]

Web Application Firewall (WAF) helps guard web applications by monitoring and filtering HTTP traffic between web applications and the Internet. Web Application Firewalls exist in physical or virtual appliances form. What is a Network firewall? A network firewall is a security device that monitors the incoming and outgoing traffic and allows them based on the […]

Both WAF and a firewall play a critical role in network security. Despite the size of the network, these two things must be in place to provide total security, not only to the end-user but also to the entire network. Firewall and WAF are often confused as one, actually, they are entirely different. What is […]

Virtual patching or vulnerability shielding is a security policy of the enforcement layer. It analyses transactions, intercepts attacks in transit, and prevents malicious traffic from reaching the web application. The virtual patch does not repair the actual faulty application but intends to establish a partly upstream, additional – security mechanism to prevent the exploitation of […]