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On September 29, 2021, Apache’s security team learned of a zero-day vulnerability (CVE 2021-41773) that attackers were exploiting to compromise Apache HTTP web servers and access sensitive files. They recommend that anyone using Apache servers 2.4.49 or 2.4.50 Linux and Windows-based servers to update to the latest version, 2.4.51, using the instructions found on the official Apache HTTP Server project site.

DDoS attacks are one of the most common threats across today’s landscape. But to stop them from crashing or degrading your web application, you must understand what they are and how they work.

Your company’s ecomm experience relies on its security infrastructure to safeguard against attacks seeking to crash servers or expose sensitive client information, and on Black Friday those attacks are only going to multiply. Taking advantage of the intense traffic strain so many enterprises will face, sophisticated bots and bad actors use common attacks like DDoS to flood your system with junk connection requests until your overloaded servers are no longer able to keep up. In order to prevent that, you need to invest in a state of the art web application firewall to block attacks.

Massive cyberattacks are no longer a surprise. Hundreds of businesses have recently been affected by ransomware and ransom-based DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks – with a huge impact on industries around the world and, consequently, our daily lives.

You may have heard a lot about Ransomware lately. Ransomware is a type of malware used by hackers to compromise a system, encrypt business critical data, and force owners to pay ransom in order to unlock it.

Larger and more widespread than ever, DDoS attacks continue to make news headlines and wreak havoc on digital businesses across many different industries and geographical locations. This seemingly permanent change to the threat landscape has sent a clear message to business owners and IT decision makers: no one is safe from DDoS attacks.

Our main goal is to ensure efficient bot management closest to end users, leveraging the security, performance and resiliency of the Azion platform, combined with a state-of-the-art bot mitigation solution in Radware, fully equipped to detect and block the most aggressive and sophisticated automated attacks.

Did you know that only 48% of current internet traffic is human? That's right, more than half of internet traffic is currently generated by robots, divided between good and bad bots.

Customer data moves back and forth all the time, and although the forms of virtual interaction have diversified, security when protecting this data has not always been enough. Since companies are increasingly building cloud-based applications with SaaS, security must also evolve to keep pace with this modernization.

Web Application Firewalls, or WAFs, are a key component of modern web security. According to Verizon’s 2020 Data Breach Incident Report, over 80% of attacks last year targeted web applications--an unsurprising statistic given the ever-increasing size of modern applications’ attack surface. However, not all WAFs are created equal. As both cyber attacks and web applications become more and more complex, WAFs must use increasingly sophisticated techniques to secure applications--and to ensure that protection does not come at the expense of performance.

Even as the pandemic wanes, ongoing changes to Internet use like 5G rollout, accelerated cloud migration, and the increased use of IoT devices are certain to impact cybersecurity and DDoS attack trends this year.

Our commitment to building a safer, more stable internet is a core value here at Azion. As our global dependence on a secure internet continues to increase, it becomes ever more critical that we safeguard against the many vulnerabilities that web infrastructure is riddled with.

The internet is a magical place. Well, okay, maybe not everything on the internet, but the internet itself, the fact that you can type example.com into a search engine and access a webpage with the exact information you were seeking.

The Zero Trust model was introduced in 2010 by Forrester Research. The approach can be summed up in a few words: trust no one, not even employees. Over the next decade, new cloud applications were born and cloud adoption accelerated. Salesforce, ServiceNow, Shopify, Workday, Atlassian, Square, DocuSign, Slack, Box and other must-have apps became a part of the corporate digital toolset.

We are pleased to announce that, as requested by many of our clients, we have improved the process for delivering Azion Origin Shield. The new functionality means that you can now automate the rule settings in your firewall to give access to your origin to specific IP addresses from our network only and block all other access.