hyperguard in the cloud

WAF protection for the GoGrid Cloud


art of defence´s software based Web Application Firewall (WAF) hyperguard protects web and cloud applications against known and unknown attacks at the application layer (such as SQL Injection, Cross Site Scripting or more general OWASP Top10). GoGrid customers can access hyperguard SaaS by simply using a hyperguard web server GSI. Here, hyperguard is integrated as a software plug-in into the underlying web server.

Key Facts.


  • Web application security monitoring enables customers to understand the risk and exposure of their cloud applications to known attacks at the application layer without hyperguard SaaS basic interfering with web traffic.  
  • ‘Detection only mode’ allows rule-sets to be tested but not enforced, alongside with rule-sets in ‘protection mode’ that enforce already proven security policies.
  • hyperguard SaaS basic is ideally suited for GoGrid customers who want application-level protection beyond the network layer for their cloud offerings.  
  • For companies relying on the GoGrid Cloud for application overflow resources, hyperguard SaaS basic defends users’ custom applications on the cloud.  

Easy deployment.


hyperguard SaaS basic for GoGrid – Users launch a single hyperguard web server GSI and configure their applications and the respective protection levels through hyperguard´s web-based GUI. If you have built your custom GSI on top of GoGrid´s own Linux or Microsoft web server offerings you can just replace those with the hyperguard GSI to add comprehensive attack detection and protection functions at the web application layer.

 

We support a wide range of web server software and operating system combinations which perhaps are not yet covered with the current offering. In addition, we plan to support distributed deployment scenarios where a central administration server can manage up to 200 copies of hyperguard GSIs.

Security Levels


The first of several service levels, hyperguard SaaS basic, offers users web application security monitoring, detection-only and protection modes. hyperguard’s SaaS delivery model allows customers the freedom to pay on a use-case basis and avoid having to invest in owning and maintaining a solution themselves. GoGrid offers a $100 service coupon for all art of defence hyperguard customers.

 

We plan to release more.

hyperguard Cloud AppSec Whitepaper


The benchmark guidelines established by the CSA in the document, Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing, is a great first step. This white paper is intended to pick up where the CSA guide left off in terms of defining what a distributed web application firewall (dWAF) should look like in order to meet the standards set within the CSA document.


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