Shopping season is round the clock. Online business, as well as online traffic, are counting on a spike. Online promotion and advertising are in place, new products have been added in the store, discounts are flowing heavily, and shopping carts are ready for an inflow of new shoppers as well as returning customers.
What online businesses might not be prepared for is a range of cybercriminals stalking their stores, thinking about the cyberattacks. From methods to intercept client transactions, access customer database to spread malware, etc.
It implies apart from hanging the mistletoe and warming up the festivity, it’s time to enterprises to pull up their socks and have an eagle eye on how to secure Web Storefront.
Digital Credit Card Skimmers
In comparison to the past year, online crime has increased a lot. The Global Market Insights 2019 press release report states that by 2024, the value of the cybersecurity market will reach approx. $300 billion.
Over the past year, MageCart (cybercrime consortium) has been quite active loading credit card skimmers onto sites. This year in summer MageCart campaign managed to exploit vulnerable sites and plant skimmer malware.
Due to this, within a year, the data from over 185,000 payment cards were stolen by the campaign.
Website protection against digital skimmer involves three actions:
- Website code testing to ensure it isn’t vulnerable to attacks that let skimming software to inject into your site.
- Tools like Web Application Firewall(WAF) implementation to monitor and prevent injection attacks.
- Tools like WAF to monitor outbound traffic. It helps in detecting as well as blocking traffic going back to the command & control server of the cybercriminals.
Password Attacks
Another weak link in a security strategy is password. Three tactics used by cybercriminals to breach account of the customer for financial information or susceptible link back into the internal database.
Attack strategies are as follows:
Brute Force Attacks:
One of the oldest password attack tactic in online business. In this approach, a cyber-criminal uses permutation and combination of multiple passwords to break a single account.
Algorithm let password cracker software to combine words, add common replacements, and use a mixture of personal data gathered from social media sites or dark web. It includes the name of your pet, family, the school you attended, the town you grew up in, birthday, school mascots, graduation date, etc.
Password Spraying
Another very similar approach in online business. In this, a hacker uses common passwords against a large number of accounts instead of multiple passwords against a single link to identify a weak link.
It exploits a common error in password software that gives freedom to an attacker to simultaneously target numerous accounts using username pulled off the different sources, including dark web. It’s just like ringing every doorbell in a building with a hope that someone might buzz you in.
Prevention from these attacks is quite straightforward. First and foremost, check your password access control software features essential security functions. No one should be able to simultaneously access multiple accounts or allowed to enter a password more than a defined time.
Most typical responses are to demand a user to solve a CAPTCHA when attempt looks suspicious and ask a user to reset a password after a set period of failed attempts.
Unfortunately, both of this doesn’t suffix the purpose. Neither CAPTCHAs are perfect, nor password reset as several tools like 2captcha, death by captcha, and Puppeteer is available to break passwords.
Here comes the Web application firewall(WAF). In addition to detecting Password Spray or Brute Force attack attempts, it also tells when multiple accounts are being accessed from a set of locations or a common location.
It also shows site traffic emerging from a suspicious server. In such cases, it also locks the accounts; block suspected origination server.
Now, that you know that WAF is your security partner. You must be curious to understand what exactly is WAF.
Why Web Application Firewall Is a Must for Online Business?
A web application firewall is a simple and easy way to protect your mission-critical data. It is a set of rules that inspects and monitors the requests coming to the application server and going from the application server. As a result, it delivers only filtered traffic and ensures complete protection from cyber-attack. With hands-on WAF, you get complete security against OWASP Top 10 attacks, application-layer DDoS attacks, malicious bots, and much more.
Why Choose HaltDos WAF?
Multi-Layered Solution:
HaltDos AI-enhanced and multi-layered approach combine network behavioral analysis (NBA), heuristic and reputation techniques to provide complete security for both internal and external web-based applications.
Machine Learning Detection:
HaltDos machine-learning detection engine intelligently detects threats with nearly zero false positive detections. It ensures your applications remain secure against sophisticated threats like SQL injection; buffer overflows, zero-day attack, and DoS attacks.
Built-in Rules:
Our 24×7 R&D team is always on the lookout for new vectors of attacks and continuously publish signatures to mitigate them. HaltDos WAF uses best of signatures & Machine Learning to mitigate any attacks on your web applications
Easy to Use:
Pre-built security templates and an intuitive web interface provide immediate security without the need for time-consuming tuning or training. Integration with security vulnerability scanners and SIEM tools automates the assessment, monitoring, and mitigation process.
Massive Scalability:
Organizations must scale dynamically to meet the needs of the most significant global applications. HaltDos WAF can extend seamlessly across CPU, computer, server rack, and data center boundaries. Organizations can use a combination of public and private cloud technologies and be assured of common application security.
Cross-Platform Portability:
As IT architectures deploy more applications; they must also ensure that they are secure. HaltDos WAF extends security policies to all corners of the data center. It can deploy common security policies across a mixture of cloud, software, virtual appliance, or even as a bare-metal server, integrating with existing systems with minimal disruption to the existing network.
So, it’s time to pull up your socks. As your online business is working through season shopping crush, it’s time to greet your online business a gift too. Unwrap a shiny new Web Application Firewall for your enterprise and welcome a secure and safe Happy New Year 2020.
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