The Wallarm WAF provides an organization with the ability to protect their applications and APIs against a wide range of attacks. However, an organization may wish to achieve a greater degree of visibility into attack traffic and alerts than is possible via the Wallarm user interface. The Wallarm Nginx-based WAF nodes provide protection against a wide variety of threats to an organization’s systems. However, it is not possible to perform a full-text search of alert…
In this series’ previous article, we added the AI-powered Wallarm WAF to our Helm chart bundled application as a sidecar container. As you can see, 10 minutes is the time we need to stop worrying about rules, lists, and attacks, and start focusing on performance, optimization, and deployment. As you probably know, if you’re developing applications in a container environment orchestrated by Kubernetes, Helm is a robust solution to bundle your application, mainly because it…
Every application has its own specific goals, critical aspects, and needs. So, the logical conclusion would be that every app needs an in-depth manual configuration, right? Well, here at Wallarm, we’re security experts and developers from the real world, and we know that in many cases time, learning curve, and maintainability are crucial factors. That’s why we continuously try to make things as easy and straightforward they can be, and that’s why you can include…
The king of container orchestration needs the best security companion: Wallarm WAF. When it comes to speed, portability, and the advantages of microservices architecture, no other product can compete with Kubernetes as a container orchestrator. Nevertheless, even the best solutions have challenges, and security is always one of these. According to the CNCF’s Cloud Native Landscape, today the market offers more than 100 tools to manage containers, but 89% of the software architects, DevOps managers,…
The previous two blog articles in this series describe how to set up Wallarm Ingress controller and configure it so that it can properly allow or block traffic from trusted or suspicious/malicious IP addresses. This is essential to the functionality of Wallarm’s Ingress controller but it isn’t enough for production environments. In a production environment, it is essential that security products provide high availability, and that the operator has a high degree of visibility into…
Wallarm’s Kubernetes Ingress controller is designed to help protect your Kubernetes cluster against cyberattacks. Its built-in web application firewall (WAF) is capable of detecting and blocking a wide range of common attacks against Kubernetes deployments. The previous article in this series discussed how to set up Wallarm’s Ingress controller to protect your Kubernetes cluster. However, there are a few configuration settings that you may need to modify in order to ensure optimal protection and performance…