Advanced protection for web applications in Azure with Radware’s Microsoft Security integration

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association guest blog series. Learn more about MISA here.

The state of application security

Companies face a wide range of security challenges, such as Open Source Foundation for Application Security Project (OWASP) vulnerabilities, advanced BOT threats and the need to manage BOTs, securing APIs, and protecting against volumetric and non-volumetric DDoS attacks. Advanced threats mean that application security solutions must do much more. Organizations require a synchronized attack-mitigation system that provides advanced application protection against all the above threats, across all platforms and environments at all times; providing comprehensive security and a single view of application security events for quick incident response and a minimum impact on business.

Customers are increasingly requesting, if not requiring, a fully managed service option for security elements. Beyond the obvious complexity of managing the positive and negative security model rules, today’s attacks are dynamic and evolving. Teams managing application security are stressed by the rapid pace of new application development and application changes, all of which require vulnerability assessment and remediation in the form of automated continuous and consistent security policies.

Cloud is disrupting technology and security is the biggest challenge for customers around the world. Radware is embracing this shift by focusing on ‘Strength in Security’ with Microsoft Azure and is focused on helping Microsoft Azure customers secure their workloads and applications. Radware works closely with Microsoft’s engineering teams to create new and innovative solutions in Azure that benefit from Microsoft’s unique cloud capabilities and services like Azure DDoS Protection and Microsoft Azure Sentinel to build a more secure digital infrastructure, enabling customers to overcome security challenges. Radware Security for Azure provides local availability and easy deployment capabilities across any Azure region, enabling organizations to move to Azure with the knowledge that their applications, networks, and data will be secure around the world.

The application threat landscape

Application vulnerabilities are now the fastest-growing cybersecurity threat to organizations, according to a year-over-year comparison of Radware’s annual Global Application & Network Security Report. Applications, and the APIs they leverage, must be protected against an expanding variety of attack methods. In addition, DevOps and Agile development practices mean that applications are in a state of constant flux, and security policies must adapt to keep pace. Web application security solutions must be smarter and address a broad spectrum of vulnerability exploitation scenarios and attack types and vectors. On top of protecting the application from these common vulnerabilities, they have to protect APIs and mitigate denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, manage bot traffic, and make a distinction between legitimate bots and malicious bots.

Web applications are a critical part of most modern businesses, but many organizations continue to overlook web application security, despite escalating threats. According to a recent Gartner report, by 2023, more than 30 percent of public-facing web applications will be protected by cloud web application and API protection services that combine DDoS protection, bot mitigation, API protection, and web application firewalls (WAFs).

Cloud web application and API security and integrated BOT and DDoS protection is the evolution of cloud-delivered WAF services. Comprehensive cloud-delivered managed security services is a more comprehensive runtime protection successor to WAF appliances. It is faster to deploy and easier for organizations to maintain. Customers want to consume security products without managing the underlying infrastructure which is a big benefit that a product like Radware Security for Azure brings to customers in Azure.

Radware Security for Azure is a managed service that provides network and application security protection against small-scale to even the most sophisticated large-scale attacks ensuring applications are protected from malicious DDoS attacks and zero-day web attacks and common vulnerabilities.

By leveraging the global scale of the Microsoft network and integrating with Azure DDoS Protection, Radware Security for Azure provides enhanced Layer 3 – Layer 7 DDoS mitigation capabilities tuned for applications and resources deployed in virtual networks backed by an industry-leading service level agreement (SLA) and 24/7 incident response team.

Radware provides advanced protection for web applications in Azure with an integrated application and API security service. Radware Security for Azure provides:

To learn more about Radware Security for Azure, visit our listing in the Azure Marketplace or visit Radware.

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