NGINX is the heart of the modern web. NGINX team used their unique position in the marketplace to survey modern technology professionals about their thoughts and perceptions of both the current state and the future of application development and deployment. According to the survey, the most popular technique for improving security and protecting against data breaches is to install a web application firewall (WAF). Overall, 57% of organizations use a WAF. Among smaller companies WAF…
We are thrilled to announce a new release of Wallarm Node™. It’s a brand-new version of the Wallarm filter instance (NGINX-based), with new features and a host of optimizations. Significant refactoring has resulted in improved performance. Optimizations were made to provide sophisticated security checks with near-zero latency. This has been a critical request for our customers with massive-load applications. The Wallarm Node 2.0™ release, introduces support for Websocket protocol. We believe Wallarm™ to be the…
Great news! We released a new version of the Wallarm platform focused on extended support for NGINX Plus (a supercharged version of standard NGINX you definitely need to try out!). From now on, you can get an enterprise-grade load balancer and a next generation WAF in a one scalable software package. Wallarm’s SaaS-based NGINX Plus solution is available as a virtual appliance (VMware image) or as a package for Debian, Ubuntu or CentOS starting at…
Customers enjoy the confidence of knowing Wallarm is an NGINX partner. All Wallarm filtering nodes are built on open-source NGINX web server/load balancer. NGINX is used by 44% of the top 1,000 websites, making Wallarm an ideal fit for DevOps teams. The very same approaches for deploying, configuring, and monitoring standard NGINX also make it possible to use Wallarm for the protection of applications with continuous integration (CI). That makes DevOps a nearly instant DevSecOps…
Last week we’ve visited the first NGINX User Summit and were lucky to give a lightning talk about Wallarm there. The event took place at Dogpatch Studios in San Francisco and gathered about a hundred people. It started with a crash course on NGINX fundamentals and continued with an overview of NGINX history and future roadmap by Igor Sysoev, six lightning talks from other participants and Yichun Zhang talking about his experience developing and profiling…
