Our Maximizing WAF Value paper discusses the continuing need for Web Application Firewall technologies, and address the ongoing struggles to run WAF. We also focus on decreasing time to value for WAF, with updated recommendations for standing up a WAF for the first time, what it takes to get a basic set of policies up and running, and new capabilities and challenges facing customers.
So what is RASP? Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP) is an application security technology which embeds into an application or application runtime environment, examining requests at the application layer to detect attacks and misuse in real time. RASP functions in the application context, which enables it to monitor security – and apply controls – very precisely. This means better detection because you see what the application is being asked to do, and can also offer better performance, as you only need to check the relevant subset of policies for each request.