Author: ansaxena

Choosing a Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) platform usually starts as a security conversation and ends as an infrastructure compromise. Most vendors support one or two deployment models well, and everything else becomes a workaround — a proxy in...

Key Takeaways* When Your Load Balancer Becomes the Bottleneck A web application that processes 3 million HTTP requests per second doesn’t fail at the database first — it fails at the load balancer. Yet most infrastructure teams spend months benchmarking...

The two dominant paradigms for volumetric DDoS mitigation — Anycast-based scrubbing and on-demand traffic diversion to dedicated scrubbing centers — represent fundamentally different trade-offs between baseline latency, mitigation capacity, detection lag, and operational complexity. Understanding which trade-offs your infrastructure can...

Introduction: Why Application Security Matters Today Modern cyberattacks rarely start at the network layer. Instead, attackers target web applications, APIs, and business logic. Poor input validation, weak authentication, or insecure design can expose sensitive data within minutes. This is why...