Lightening Talk - WAF Evolution, or How I Stopped Worrying About Vulnerabilities

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Presented at AppSecUSA 2016 by

Brian Mchenry

In this talk, we'll explore how application firewalls must evolve to continue to provide powerful, operationally scalable security policies. Gone are the days of "virtually" patching vulnerabilities when remediation time continues to shrink in more agile, devops-driven infrastructures. Infrastructure-based pplication security must pivot to focus on client behavior an characteristics, rather than on the web app itself. Security must also be extended to the browser, to protect even the user who will click on anything from compromise. Elements of this topic have been covered in my columns on Information Security Buzz: http://www.informationsecuritybuzz.com/articles/the-death-of-waf-as-we-know-it/http://www.informationsecuritybuzz.com/articles/when-a-bot-isnt-a-bot/http://www.informationsecuritybuzz.com/articles/is-bot-detection-the-best-value-in-infosec/