Rethinking Web Application Firewalls

Web Application Firewalls (WAF) first emerged in the late 1990s as Web server attacks became more common. Today, in the context of cloud native technologies, there’s an ongoing rethinking of how a WAF should be applied. No longer is it solely static applications sitting behind a WAF, said Tigera CEO Ratan Tipirneni, President & CEO of Tigera in this episode of The New Stack Makers. “With cloud native applications and a microservices distributed architecture, you have to assume that something inside your cluster has been compromised,” Tipirneni said. “So just sitting behind a W...