KingHost Launches Cybersecurity Tool to Protect Websites and Apps

KingHost, the LWSA-owned Software as a Service (SaaS) company, has announced the launch of a new cybersecurity tool designed to protect applications and websites from cyberattacks.The Web Application Firewall (WAF) is now available to KingHost Hosting, Cloud and VPS customers and 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 activity on client sites and applications. According to the Sitelock Report 2022, websites receive 5.5 times more traffic from bots than from human users, with 60% of this malicious traffic.

“ is an essential tool for any business with an online presence, able to protect websites and applications against intrusions, data theft, fraud and other common digital crimes today”, says Livia Lampert, executive manager of KingHost.

The WAF analyzes traffic between users and web servers, identifying suspicious patterns and malicious behavior to prevent unauthorized exposure of data.“82% of requests that arrive at websites are suspicious activities. When these attacks occur on the server, KingHost controls, protects and mitigates the impacts. When they are on websites, applications or APIs, the WAF blocks and prevents the damage of”, explains Livia.

The tool can be customized 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, improved security standards, response to emerging threats, protection against botnets and data scraping attacks, as well as improving application performance.