Top 10 Web Application Security Best Practices

As applications become more decentralized and attackers more sophisticated, it's increasing critical to implement a complete web application and API protection (WAAP) solution for robust web app protection and to simplify security operations across complex application environments.

A WAAP solution integrates several core security capabilities for end-to-end application protection, including a WAF to safeguard against common web app exploits. It also includes comprehensive API security, including API discovery and monitoring, threat detection, and runtime protection. A WAAP also delivers DDoS mitigation across network and application layers (Layers 3, 4, and 7), and provides bot protection and management that detects, classifies, and blocks malicious automated traffic while allowing legitimate bots to operate without disruption.

Key benefits of a WAAP include centralized security policy management to enable consistent protection across all environments, regardless of deployment architecture or location, along with a unified set of security controls for both applications and APIs. A WAAP also delivers improved visibility and anomaly detection across the entire threat landscape, with detailed audit trails and event correlation to support regulatory compliance and incident response.

A complete WAAP solution simplifies security operations while enhancing protection across increasingly complex application ecosystems.