Increasing the security of web applications

With the expansion of social media, the usages of web applications have been increasing around the world. As a result, online attackers have transformed their mode of action on the internet to maximize on this phenomenon.
The hackers have over the years assailed networks and exploited system level vulnerabilities which has in turn been fueling demand for products like firewall and intrusion detection systems.
As these products mature and security teams for information technology  learn to better handle network security, the information security industry is seeing a visible increase in attacks moving up the stack to target application-level vulnerabilities.
Web Application Firewall (WAF) protects applications from attackers. Internet facing web applications make up a large part of the attack surface, and are where attackers have their attention focused, which is indicated by a prevalence of attacks on the platform being 35%.
In return, WAFs are designed to protect web applications. WAFs are a shielding safeguard intended to defend applications accessed via the Hypertext Transfer Protocol address.
They are capable of preventing attacks that network firewalls or intrusion prevention systems cannot.
WAFs sit in front of a web application or web site,monitor application activity and alert on or block traffic that is malicious or that does not comply with specific rules.
The intention is to catch application level attacks, such as SQL or Standardized Query Language which requesting information from a database injection and cross-site scripting along with attempts to manipulate web application behavior.
Unprotected web applications are the easiest point of entry for hackers and vulnerable to a number of attack types.
Sophisticated threats such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting, buffer overflows, and cookie poisoning malicious sources. DOS attack also includes layer 7 load balancing and accelerated SSL offloading for more efficient application delivery.
It has features like Vulnerability scanning and patching, IP reputation, web application attack signatures, credential stuffing defense, anti-virus, Sandbox, Real-time attack insights and reporting with advanced visual analytics tools, Behavioral attack detection, Advanced false positive and negative detection avoidance.
Amber IT Web Application Firewall (WAF) is a cloud-based service that reduces the complexity of application security with a unified platform to rapidly detect and virtually patch web application vulnerabilities. It's simple, scalable and adaptive approach, backed by Amber IT's security expertise, lets you quickly block web application attacks, prevent disclosure of sensitive information, and control when and where your applications are accessed.