[Webinar] Bad bots and worse: Protect your critical apps

Does your business depend on web applications to operate?

If you said no, I’m genuinely curious what line of business you’re in.

But if your answer was yes, then yours is among the vast majority of organizations that rely on online applications to interact with customers, partners, suppliers, service providers, and the rest of the business ecosystem in which they exist.

A growing attack surface

Unfortunately, the increasing dependence on applications — and the increasing speed with which organizations develop and deploy them — makes the application layer of your infrastructure a large and growing attack surface that is extremely tempting to sophisticated cybercrime gangs.

They are constantly probing for vulnerabilities — and finding them. Indeed, while the imperative for fast DevOps was already causing frequent security gaps, the transition to API-based development has generated whole new categories of vulnerability. And cyber crooks have been quick to develop new techniques to exploit them.

Rise of the bots

Malicious bots are one of the favorite tools that hackers use to find and exploit app vulnerabilities. And they’re growing more sophisticated and difficult to detect, ever more effectively mimicking human behavior.

Threat actors increasingly leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to develop better, more successful strategies and tools, including advanced bots. As a result, the task of detecting and blocking them — while ensuring that legitimate users and beneficial bots still get access — requires the use of AI and machine-learning (ML) as well.

Expert insights on today’s threat landscape

Attend the December 6 Barracuda webinar “Protecting web applications from malicious bots” to gain a wealth of in-depth analysis and insights regarding the state of the application-layer threat landscape.

Product Management VP Nitzan Miron, in conversation with Marketing Operations Senior Director Kaivan Jesung, will present all the latest findings on the techniques and strategies cyber crooks are using to penetrate networks via your applications, including not only malicious bots but also:

• Software supply-chain attacks that compromise the critical third-party building blocks used by app developers
• API-based attacks that exploit the ability to interact directly with application logic
• DDoS, credential-stuffing, scraping, and other well-established strategies being refreshed with AI

Plus, you’ll find out all about how threat researchers and security engineers are leveraging the latest technologies to build new, more effective ways to detect and block advanced, multilayered threats.

Don’t miss this fast-approaching online learning event. Reserve your spot right now and join us on Wednesday.