Web Application Firewall Validation

Test and optimize your web application firewall against the
latest web-based threats.

Web application firewalls are instrumental in mitigating risk from the OWASP top-10 vulnerabilities for web applications.

137%

Increase in web  
DDOS attacks

Source: Radware

61%

Increase in bad
bot activity

Source: Radware

22%

Increase in web/API  
attack activity

Source: Radware

Automated Security Validation for WAF

Cymulate uses breach and attack simulations to assess the efficacy of your web application defenses. The test scenarios simulate different types of web application threats and malicious code injection to validate the effectiveness of your web app firewall including:

Code injection and file inclusion
Cross-site scripting (XSS)
Server-side request forgery (SSRF)
Path traversal and WAF bypass

View Solution Brief

Solution Features:
WAF Validation

Solution Features:
WAF Validation

Automate the testing of your web application firewall controls and policies by simulating diverse types of malicious file inclusion, code injection and other common OWASP threats to your web application.

Solution Results

97%

Reduction in WAF risk score by fixing one misconfiguration

70%

Reduction in vulnerabilities identified in next pen test

50%

Prevention of known exploit techniques from a single policy change

Solution Benefits

Automated security validation

Automated security validation of web application firewall controls and policies against the latest web application threats.

Identify gaps and weaknesses

Find gaps and weaknesses in your web application firewall that could expose your applications to malicious activity.

Optimize security controls

Configure and tune your web application firewall controls with mitigation guidance to block malicious requests.

Reduce exposure risk

Continuously measure and improve your controls to reduce the risk of DDoS attacks, malicious bot activity and other web app threats.

What our customers say about us

Organizations across all industries choose Cymulate for automated security validation of their web gateway to protect their users from web-based attacks.

“We used Cymulate to assess the protection of one of our web applications. After some internal checks we discovered that our WAF was not actually protecting the site. We would have been left completely vulnerable had Cymulate not shown us this gap.”

– Security Leader, Telecom Industry

“Cymulate is helping us validate our security controls comprehensively and realistically from both internal and external threats.”

– IT Security and Risk Management, Telecom Industry

– Security Leader, Telecom Industry

“Automated mitigation of threats added to the capability of security control validation is just an out of the park feature of Cymulate which enables us to minimize risk on the go.”

- Engineering, Services Industry