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In a world where malicious bots roam the internet like hungry lions seeking vulnerable applications to devour, application owners are forced to make tough decisions between streamlined, user-friendly workflows and the need to interrupt user experience with bot protection techniques like CAPTCHA. We’re all tired of the user-experience of having an extra bit of work to do when filling out and submitting web forms. Who’s got time for that? However, malicious bots can and do cause real harm for countless organizations, especially as credential stuffing and account takeover attacks grow more and more sophisticated.

Ed Amoroso, Chief Executive Officer of TAG Cyber LLC, a global cyber security advisory, training, consulting, and media services company, recently published a great article on the potential for DDOS attacks to disrupt the upcoming election. In it, he gives great insight into how L3/L4 volumetric DDOS works and how they can be used against the facilities that collect and tabulate votes from regional sites. 

Credential stuffing attacks are some of the most common bot-based threats facing applications today. Virtually any site or application with a login page is a potential target for credential stuffing. In this blog, we take a look at what credential stuffing is, how it can impact your apps and users, and how you can use the ThreatX WAAP++ to keep yourself protected.  

By focusing intently on risk-based security, ThreatX delivers a truly modernized approach to AppSec that enables our clients to manage their threat posture in a fundamentally different way. It lets us consistently recognize and stop more legitimate attacks for our customers, vastly reduce false positives, and significantly reduce the fatigue and burden on staff and analysts. Let's take a closer look at what it's all about and why it matters.

Most any organization that stores, processes, or transmits payment card data is likely well aware of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). For these organizations, maintaining and documenting PCI compliance is an ongoing and often laborious process. ThreatX brings a new approach to application security that not only helps address PCI requirements but does it far more consistently across many types of applications and with far less effort than traditional WAFs.