The growing importance of cloud WAFs and their business impact

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By Shibu Paul, Vice President – International Sales at Array Networks

As digital transformation accelerates, applications have become the backbone of business operations. From customer platforms to internal systems, almost every interaction now happens through web and API-driven environments. This shift has made application-layer security a priority and to strengthen the digital security and maintain customer trust, cloud WAFs are becoming a critical part of that strategy with significant operational and financial impact worldwide.

Why Cloud WAFs Are Becoming Essential
The way applications are built and accessed has fundamentally changed. They are now distributed, API-driven and exposed to the internet by design. At the same time, users connect from multiple locations, devices and networks that creates a security challenge that traditional tools are not designed to handle.

Cloud WAFs address this gap by providing protection directly at the application layer, where modern threats actually operate. Cloud WAFs have become a...

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