As more people are creating websites and becoming aware of website security, companies are popping up everywhere to help with the problem. And just like website security plugins, not all website security services are created equal. Here at Sucuri, we believe that you should do your website security comparison research so you know the options available […]
Tag Archives: website firewall
Googlebot or a DDoS Attack?
A bot is a software application that uses automation to run scripts on the internet. Also called crawlers or spiders, these guys take on the simple yet repetitive tasks we do. There are legitimate bots and malicious ones. A Web Application Firewall (WAF) filters the web traffic and blocks any malicious bots, letting the good […]
How to Improve Your Website Resilience for DDoS Attacks – Part III – WAF
In the first post of this series, we talked about the practices that will optimize your site and increase its resilience to DDoS attacks. In the second post, we focused on caching best practices that can reduce the chances of a DDoS attack taking down your site. Today, we are going to emphasize the importance […]
How to Prevent Cross-Site Contamination for Beginners
What is Cross-Site Contamination? Cross-site contamination happens when a hacked site infects other sites on a shared server. Think of it as your kid in daycare catching the flu, next thing you know, everybody in the family has it as well. The same happens with websites. A site can be negatively affected by neighboring sites […]
Sucuri Named December 2018 Gartner Customers’ Choice for Web Application Firewalls
The Sucuri team is excited to announce that we have been recognized as a December 2018 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for the Sucuri Firewall. Our team takes great pride in this distinction, as customer feedback continues to shape our products and services. In its announcement, Gartner explains, “The Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice is […]
Real-Time Fine-Tuning of the WAF via API
Though the Sucuri Firewall is simple to set up and protects your website immediately, it’s possible to have granular control of the WAF by using an API. For instance, there’s a specific filter inside the WAF dashboard called Emergency DDoS. This filter basically increases the strength of the DDoS protection to an “emergency” level where […]
Product Update: Sucuri Firewall in Singapore and Amsterdam
Over three years ago, we transitioned the Sucuri Firewall (WAF) away from the cloud and expanded it to run on top of our own Anycast content delivery network (CDN). We provide security for websites with the protection of our WAF as well as performance benefits of a CDN. We have been adding data centers in key […]
PCI for SMB: Requirement 5 & 6 – Maintain a Vulnerability Management Program
This is the fourth post in a series of articles on understanding the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard – PCI DSS. We want to show how PCI DSS can help anyone going through the compliance process using the PCI SAQ’s (Self Assessment Questionnaires). In the previous articles we have written about PCI, we covered […]
How to Improve Your Website Security Posture – Part II
In the first post of this series, we discussed some of the main website security threats. Knowing the website security environment is a vital part of a good website posture. However, it is also important to be aware of what to do to strengthen your website. Today, we are going to give you some practical […]
How to Improve Website Resilience for DDoS Attacks – Part II – Caching
In the first post of this series, we talked about the practices that will optimize your site and increase your website’s resilience to DDoS attacks. Today, we are going to focus on caching best practices that can reduce the chances of a DDoS attack bringing down your site. Website caching is a technique to store […]
