As should be evident to anyone in the cyber security industry, the wide range of available web security solutions from commercial vendors will necessarily have varying degrees of effectiveness against different threats.
A premise of this article is that client-side security has been under-represented in these solutions – and to see this, it helps to briefly examine the specifics of the well-known web security solutions in use today, and their respective emphases.
Web Application Firewalls (WAFs)
The design of web application firewalls (WAFs) addressed the fact that the target of most malicious activity is not always the infrastructure surrounding a web hosting environment, but rather the application itself. By manipulating or exploiting security weaknesses in the critical applications of a business, bad actors could gain access to the most valuable assets.
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