Solution Brief | CloudGuard WAF | Check Point Software

Solution Brief | CloudGuard WAF

Preemptive Web Application & API Protection

One Platform for Modern Application Security

As your cloud-based web applications grow, so does your exposure to cyber threats. Attackers target your applications and APIs with sophisticated techniques from SQL injection and cross-site scripting to bot attacks and zero-day exploits putting your business at risk of financial loss, reputational damage, and increased operational burden. In today’s landscape, robust application security is no longer optional–it’s essential.

Traditional WAF Just Can’t Cut It!

Web application firewalls (WAF) have traditionally relied on threat signature mapping to reactively fend off attacks. This approach is both reactive (takes an average of 1 month for initial remedy) and is limited in its effectiveness because it can only make a binary decision: block or permit. This leads to a high number of false positives, causing headaches for security teams who must constantly monitor and maintain them.

With modern applications being developed and deployed at breakneck speed, it is becoming increasingly clear that this outdated approach is unable to keep up with the pace and scope of DevOps practices.

Check Point WAF #1 in Security Performance.

WAF Eliminate Risks, Reduce Overheads, Accelerate Development

Check Point WAF is the ultimate solution for organizations looking to mitigate risks and speed up development. This advanced cloud-native platform streamlines application security management and re-imagines threat prevention, effectively blocking known and unknown threats and significantly reducing operational overheads.

Real-time Preemptive Protection

Check Point WAF preemptively blocks attacks, based on patented contextual AI/ML. WAF embeds security testing directly into the development pipeline, providing real-time protection. The result is enhanced security, accelerated time to market, and greater development efficiency, all achieved without compromising on quality or safety.

Precise Prevention

Check Point WAF accurately eliminates false positives by examining various contextual parameters and determining a final risk score with input from multiple ML engines. Using multiple engine risk analysis provides more accurate decision-making, eradicating manual tuning and enabling security admins to operate confidently in Prevent Mode without blocking legitimate requests.

Business Specific Protection

Web apps enter learning mode to gather environment-specific data and business cases, with multiple CPUs storing and synchronizing information hourly. The system identifies the source, HTTP method, HTTP requests, and every key/value pair, quickly completing its learning before users switch to prevent mode.

WAF API Discovery

Applications are evolving faster than ever and as they do, they create and expose more APIs. Ensure that your application’s APIs are being used correctly, with CloudGuard WAF’s API discovery, as well as auto-generated OpenAPI SWAGGER schema files. Stop cyber criminals from leveraging your APIs to expose sensitive data, inject commands, or extract API keys.

Prevent Automated Attacks

Protect your applications from sophisticated bots. CloudGuard uses JS injections to perform client-side behavioral analysis (including biometric activity like keystrokes and mouse movements) in order to distinguish between human and non-human interactions with your application. Stop credential stuffing, brute force attacks, and site scraping with advanced bot protection.

WAF Cloud Distributed WAF

Check Point WAF can be deployed across various platforms including on-premises, agents, gateways, and SaaS. Our team is dedicatedly engaged in regularly enhancing and expanding our support for both widely adopted and cutting-edge technologies.

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