A KingHost, Software as a Service (SaaS) company belonging to LWSA, announced the launch of a new cybersecurity tool designed to protect applications and websites against cyber attacks. The Web Application Firewall (WAF) is now available for Hosting customers, Cloud and VPS from KingHost will be released soon to the general public
In the first six months of 2024, the tool blocked about 7,5 million suspicious events and detected approximately 9,9 million suspicious activities on client websites and applications. According to the Sitelock Report of 2022, sites receive 5,5 times more bot traffic than human user traffic, with 60% of this traffic being malicious
"It is an essential tool for any business with an online presence", able to protect sites and applications against invasions, data theft, frauds and other common digital crimes today, says Lívia Lampert, executive manager of KingHost
The WAF analyzes the traffic between users and web servers, identifying suspicious patterns and malicious behaviors to prevent unauthorized data exposure. 82% of the requests that reach the sites are suspicious activities. When these attacks occur on the server, KingHost controls, protects and mitigates the impacts. When they are on the sites, applications or APIs, the WAF blocks and prevents damage, explain Lívia
The tool can be customized according to the specific needs of each application, offering benefits such as protection against attacks, vulnerability mitigation, real-time threat detection, flexible customization, data loss prevention, improvement of safety standards, response to emerging threats, protection against botnets and data scraping attacks, in addition to improving the application's performance
