Many hosting companies rely on a firewall to protect their customers’ servers and websites from security breaches. However network firewalls and Intrusion Prevention and Detection Systems (IDS/IPS), do not offer a solution to application level threats. Applications without an added layer of protection increase the risk of harmful attacks and extreme vulnerabilities.

An experienced hacker can break into most commercial websites with even the smallest hole in a company’s website application code. These sophisticated attacks have become increasingly threatening to organizations.

This whitepaper looks at how software based web application firewalls - which are targeted specially at hosting companies and SMEs - are useful for the protection of internal web applications.