Progress Enhances Web Application Firewall (WAF) Capabilities in LoadMaster 360 to Help Organizations Intuitively Secure Their Web Applications
Progress (Nasdaq: PRGS) has announced enhancements to its Progress LoadMaster 360, a cloud-based unified application delivery platform. The update features advanced Web Application Firewall (WAF) capabilities to improve security insights, reduce false positives, and enhance application performance. This enhancement is aimed at helping organizations protect their web applications from sophisticated cyberattacks. Users can now benefit from intelligent false positive identification and smart rule tuning, ensuring better application security without compromising performance. The new functionalities include precise WAF configuration based on smart traffic analysis, which balances security measures with application performance. The latest release of LoadMaster 360 is available as of July 11, 2024.
- Enhanced WAF capabilities in LoadMaster 360 now provide improved security insights and reduce false positives.
- The new release helps balance security measures and application performance with precise WAF configuration and tuning.
- Intelligent false positive identification and smart rule tuning make it easier to secure web applications effectively.
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The enhancements in the latest release of Progress LoadMaster 360 are significant for organizations concerned about web application security. Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) play a important role in defending against cyberattacks, but they can be notoriously difficult to configure correctly. The ability to reduce false positives and tune the firewall more intuitively is a game-changer. False positives, where legitimate traffic is incorrectly flagged as malicious, can disrupt business operations and frustrate users. By improving the precision of WAF configurations, LoadMaster 360 helps ensure that genuine users are not unduly blocked, which is vital for maintaining smooth operations and user satisfaction.
Moreover, the integration of OWASP-based filters, while initially helpful, can be overwhelming without proper tuning. This new capability helps organizations strike the balance between stringent security and operational efficiency, which is essential in today’s threat landscape where cyberattacks are growing in sophistication.
In the short term, organizations can expect improved security posture with fewer disruptions due to false positives. Over the long term, this could translate to cost savings in terms of reduced downtime and less time spent on managing security incidents.
From a market perspective, the enhancement of LoadMaster 360's WAF capabilities can be seen as a strategic move by Progress to enhance its competitive edge in the cloud-based application delivery market. The growing importance of cybersecurity, driven by the increasing frequency and complexity of cyberattacks, makes this enhancement timely and relevant. The ability to fine-tune WAF settings to reduce false positives is a compelling value proposition for organizations that rely heavily on web applications and need to balance security with usability.
This improvement not only broadens the product's appeal to a wider range of customers but also reinforces Progress's position as a leader in AI-powered infrastructure software. It is likely to attract attention from potential new customers who are looking for robust, yet user-friendly security solutions. This could lead to increased market share and potentially higher revenues in the future.
Additionally, as cybersecurity continues to be a top priority for businesses, products that simplify security management and enhance performance can command a premium. This development positions Progress well to capitalize on the growing demand for integrated security and performance management solutions.
Latest release of cloud-based application delivery platform empowers customers to tune their WAF to reduce false positives alerts, enhance web application security and provide an optimal application experience
BURLINGTON, Mass., July 11, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Progress (Nasdaq: PRGS), the trusted provider of AI-powered infrastructure software, today announced new and powerful enhancements in the latest release of Progress® LoadMaster® 360, its cloud-based unified application delivery platform. These enhancements help organizations protect their web applications against increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks and provide customers with an optimal application experience.
With today’s release, Progress provides customers with an enhanced Web Application Firewall (WAF) offering that delivers improved security insights, minimizes the time required for WAF configuration and tuning and easily identifies false positives for legitimate application traffic. With its intelligent false positive identification and smart rule tuning, LoadMaster 360 empowers customers to more easily secure their applications.
Web applications present attractive targets for malicious actors seeking to exploit vulnerabilities and gain unauthorized access to sensitive information. Enabling all Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP)-based WAF filters can inadvertently block legitimate users and impact application performance, but disabling the same filters without careful consideration can make applications vulnerable to attacks. LoadMaster 360 helps customers find the right balance between the two extremes by providing precise WAF configuration and tuning based on smart traffic analysis.
“To address the complexity of today’s evolving web-based threats, infrastructure teams need intelligent and advanced technology that can precisely filter, monitor and block malicious traffic without impacting operations,” said Sundar Subramanian, EVP & General Manager, Infrastructure Management, Progress. “With today’s release of LoadMaster 360, we are giving our customers powerful technology, which, when combined with other application security capabilities such as single sign-on and pre-authentication, can help them combat cyberthreats and maintain their application performance.”
Identifying attacks from false positives is a challenging and time-consuming effort, especially for non-security experts. With access to detailed data in LoadMaster 360, they can more easily configure and customize the LoadMaster WAF technology and quickly identify a potential security issue only when it occurs. Through a powerful combination of load balancing, WAF protection, monitoring and tuning, LoadMaster 360 users can take control of their application delivery and help deliver an optimal application performance experience for end users.
LoadMaster 360 provides organizations of all sizes with the controls and insights necessary to maintain optimized application performance and deliver the best possible application experience for users. As a cloud service, LoadMaster 360 provides a single interface to manage application delivery performance, security and configuration in relation to LoadMaster workloads.
The latest release of LoadMaster 360 is available today. For more information and a demo, click here.
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