The Cyber Security Balancing Act
Improving WAF Accuracy
Download the new Akamai white paper, The Cyber Security Balancing Act: Improving WAF Accuracy without Impacting Legitimate Users and gain insight into WAF accuracy, testing and devaluation.
What you need to know
- Most WAF solutions come with pre-configured rule sets, but it’s usually a challenge to adjust rules to the realities of a changing business environment
- Managing and fine tuning WAF rules are very time consuming tasks beyond the skills and resources of most internal IT organizations
- If a WAF is not deployed correctly or fine-tuned regularly, legitimate user traffic can be blocked, resulting in a poor user experience and potentially lost revenues
What you'll learn
- How to improve WAF accuracy as part of a comprehensive cyber security defense
- How a single measure for evaluating WAF performance can reduce the percentage of false positives that adversely affect legitimate users and negatively impact the business
- Why determining WAF accuracy only by percentage of blocked attacks alone is no longer relevant
- Why an automated WAF testing framework is the missing piece of the accuracy equation and how it can prove that a rule change is improving WAF accuracy
- How Akamai harnesses big data to create the most effective WAF testing framework