security side of things, so it’s a good way of enforcing standards. Additionally, the Cloud WAF can also block users based on location.
Bot Management and Deception Bots are essentially automated analysis of websites. Malicious bots are the things that pose problems in our industry, such as odds scraping. Bots can generate quite a lot of traffic and serving that traffic unnecessarily costs money as well as the issue of having your IP being used elsewhere.
However, there is a lot of legitimate bots, such as search engine bots and chat bots that are welcomed by site owners as they increase search engine optimisation and index the web. Terefore, we need to be sure to identify good bots from bad ones. Bot deception builds a honeypot trap, which essentially helps identify these bots as they come in. Te Cloud WAF provides the tools to differentiate bots using biometrics alongside keyboard and mouse movement to identify a human interaction from automation.
API Protection In an increasingly connected world, protection is about more than just client server interaction. APIs provide a standard in which applications talk to one another. As soon as you start to open
up information, open up APIs on an application on a network and integrate with other partners (which is seen a lot in our industry), it opens up what we call the ‘attack surface area’. Te more this is open, the more vulnerable one is. However, we recognise companies need to open up in order to benefit from the flexibility of integration.
APIs can work from anything – even between apps on a mobile phone which connect back to a server. With the Cloud WAF, we have hardened this API communication and can protect through a variety of different security code controls. We can even put in request limits to limit the interaction with the API and ensure it adheres to either custom or open API specific schema files. Tis works for both B2B and B2C companies and ensures security of integration.
How important is protecting against the vulnerabilities you refer to?
In our business ensuring one is protected against these types of vulnerabilities is critical. Any business with an online presence can be exploited and the more businesses align, the greater the aforementioned attack surface area. If you generate revenue from a website or mobile phone app, it is even more imperative you are protecting the infrastructure as best as
possible. However, it is not all about protecting money.
If you are under attack, it can slow down your website and send you offline similar to a DDoS attack. You might not even notice you're under attack and an attacker can gain access to the site, deface it by putting up their own content or simply replicating their website. Worse still, attackers can syphon off customer details, encrypt whole file servers and online estate then ask for a ransom to unencrypt and give the data back.
Tese types of events occur often. As well as the obvious questions of ‘can companies actually recover from this sort of breach? Can companies keep their reputation and customer loyalty after an event like this?’, you also have to take into consideration further remedial costs as attacked companies then need to ensure they’re hardened against a repeat attack. Not protecting oneself sufficiently has the potential to wipe businesses off the map and there's been many high-profile cases we've all seen through the media testament to this.
What role did Fortinet play in the development process?
We wanted to expand our security portfolio and NEWSWIRE / INTERACTIVE / MARKET DATA P65
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