Fortra Managed Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Fortra Managed WAF provides proactive web application and API security without the complexity of managing it yourself. With our fully managed, enterprise-level, cloud ready WAF, you have 24/7 SOC support that continuously tracks and blocks web app exploits from known and unknown threats.

5 WAF Management Challenges

The adoption of web application firewalls (WAFs) to protect web apps and APIs is on the rise as it is the optimal security solution. But just having a WAF isn’t enough – it needs to be actively managed by a team with the right skills, experience, and tools to protect from potential compromise. Successful WAF management isn’t easy, but it is achievable. This short, education video takes a look at the five key WAF management challenges you may be facing.

Fortra Managed WAF Key Features

Advanced Threat Protection

 Coverage goes far beyond OWASP top 10 and CWE top 25. 

API Discovery and Protection

Reduce tool sprawl with web application and API protections.  

Zero-Day Emerging Threat Detection

Global threat team delivers a broad signature set with proven success in capturing zero-days and emerging threats.  

Ongoing Management and Tuning

Collaboration between our experts and your team enables us to deliver the best experience and optimized protections.  

Virtual Patching

Managed creation and application for 100+ top applications. 

False Positive Resolution

Managed resolution of SOC-identified and customer-reported false positives.   

Bot Management

Block automated attacks and unwanted data scraping bots via session anomaly detection and CAPTCHA enforcement.  

Credential Attack Protection

Includes brute force and credential stuffing attacks.  

Website DDoS Protection

Industrial strength DDoS mitigation at layer 7 (L7).  

Fortra Managed WAF Benefits

Expert Optimized Protections Our web security experts create and maintain application aware policies. 24/7 Global SOC Support Guidance and recommendations provided by our SOC and web security experts. Fortra Threat Intelligence Research driven security policies and hourly updates to malicious IP watchlist. Fully Featured WAF as a Service Service features include end-to-end encryption, rate limiting, data masking, connection throttling and more.  Auto-Scaling and High Availability Setup Flexible deployment options to implement our Managed WAF. Application Delivery Controls Includes virtual hosts, load balancing, caching, and acceleration to simplify operations and improve network performance.  Compliance Adherence Meets the WAF requirement of several compliance mandates including PCI DSS, HIPPA, and GDPR.