The Cross-Site Scripting also known as XSS is a prevalent web security threat and one of the favorite method of attackers to steal your personal information. Cross-site scripting, which targets users, made up almost one-third of the total number of attacks. In XSS, the web hackers add a malicious piece of codes in your Server …
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), also known as Session Riding is a type of web threat that manipulates the web browser into performing an unwanted action on the application or website to which a user is currently logged in. A successful CSRF attack can lead to serious consequences e.g. loss of business reputation and customer confidence, …
The DDoS mitigation is a process of protecting the targeted network from the anticipated DDoS attack. A special purpose network equipment or an alternative cloud-based security measures are used for protecting the networks from attackers. Typically, a DDoS mitigation process consists of 4 steps: The detection of possible traffic flow anomalies that may indicate the …
Real User Monitoring (RUM) is one of the most common approaches to perform web monitoring. It is designed in a way to be as unobtrusive as possible. With RUM, it is possible to gain insights into the following key metrics: Communication / network time Network time starts when a user clicks on a link until …
From CDN to ADN The content delivery network (or content distribution network) is inspired and invented in MIT in the late ’90s and later became a successful commercial venture Akamai Technologies in early ’00. The goal of CDN is to distribute service spatially relative to end-users to provide high availability and high performance. As the …
WAF usually resides in front of web servers, by placing a filtration barrier between the targeted server and the attacker. the WAF is able to protect against attacks like cross-site forgery, cross-site scripting and SQL injection in real time. Learn more about mlytics Enhanced Security feature. Working model Positive Security Model – PSM or Whitelisting only allows web …
A web application firewall (WAF) is an application firewall for HTTP applications. It applies a set of rules to an HTTP conversation. Generally, these rules cover common attacks such as cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection. While proxies generally protect clients, WAFs protect servers. A WAF is deployed to protect a specific web application or …
There are various ways to implement and utilize Multi CDN, and it is critical to evaluate different factors due to factors such as bandwidth commitments, costs, overage charges, and many more. Here is a list of factors that can impact your Multi CDN strategy: Geo performance An important factor to consider while selecting CDNs is …
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To make the most out of Multi CDN strategy, it’s common to switch between different CDNs and select the best routing path on a daily basis. There are many different ways to route traffic between multiple CDNs such as: Round-robin – Traffic is dynamically divided between all CDNs. It is one of the easiest methods to …
Mitigate cyber attacks Multi CDN can directly mitigate and even out attack requests/traffics to all available CDNs to maintain uptime without affecting website operation. However, most IT experts find it challenging to manually manage CDN distribution under stressful attack scenarios. Most Multi CDN options on the market are still very manual-driven or are just using …
