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One of my favorite activities as CEO of ThreatX is participating in meetings with prospects that have a legacy WAF already installed. In most cases, these discussions involve learning about a legacy WAF that, at best, has never been fully deployed or, at worst, has never been trusted enough to be placed into full blocking mode.

...Everything looks like a nail.

There are over a five billion unique user credentials currently circulating on darknet forums. No wonder credential stuffing/brute force attacks are on the rise and remain one of the most popular attack vectors used by both bad actors and bots alike. And they're not always what they seem to be.

We're watching evolution in real-time. The bad guys have industrialized the attack toolbox. They're a step ahead of firewalls. They know where the tripwires and detection thresholds are for DDOS and Bot Detection solutions. Staying low and slow is cheap and productive. They’re sappers and deftly understand how to stay below the threshold of detection.  

“We are all just prisoners here of our own device.” 
--The Eagles  

“Help me get rid of some of this stuff, or I’m gonna f’n lose it.”
--Anonymous CISO 

Bad bots and malicious automation are one of the few technology challenges that can materially impact on every business team inside an organization. With up to 50% of Internet traffic generated by bots, organizations are awash in a sea of automated visitors. Some bots are benign, others aren’t. Those that aren't can interfere with customer acquisition. They steal data and intellectual property. They erode application performance. They directly defraud businesses.

I’m a big fan of the ThreatX agentless architecture. It simplifies many of aspects of deployment and side-steps a lot of the problems with agent-based architecture.

Today I am proud to announce the integration of the ThreatX WAAP with the Palo Alto Networks XSOAR platform. You can read the official announcement for more details here. This integration is exciting for me personally because it tackles one of the most important issues I see facing enterprise security teams regardless of size or industry. Virtually every organization needs to get more leverage out of their security tools, whether that means arming analysts with critical data or turning that data into automated responses. This integration lets organizations harness the power of the ThreatX’s web application + api protection + bog protection + DDoS attack mitigation (WAAP++) platform for such things as risk scores, entity details, and other insights and leverage that data across the enterprise so that teams can do more, faster. 

It’s been a few weeks since we closed the book on another RSA conference. And as always, it was nice to catch up with old friends, meet new ones, and talk to many of the security professionals who are on the frontlines of AppSec every day.

However, after spending some time on the show floor, one thing really stood out for me: vendors were selling security products, and most attendees were looking for security partnerships.

Every vendor seemingly has a promise for why their technology, products, or features are better than their competitors. But ultimately, it falls to the customers to take a leap of faith, invest in a product, staff the product, and make it deliver on its promises. It is the customer that must do the heavy lifting and take on the risk.