We are thrilled to announce the biggest update yet to the Wallarm API Attack Surface Management (AASM) platform, along with the General Availability of our API Vulnerability Scanner! 

Enhanced Vulnerability Detection

AASM now detects approximately 2,500 of the most widespread vulnerabilities affecting APIs, and it now scans for outdated versions of software across web servers, frameworks, libraries, CMS platforms, plugins, programming languages, network services, and API gateways. Users can see the expanded set of vulnerabilities discovered in the Security Issues section of AASM.

Vulnerability Intelligence Enrichment

We’ve integrated powerful Vulnerability Intelligence sources to provide deeper insights into detected vulnerabilities, including:

• Public exploit availability 🛠️
• In-the-wild exploitation 🌍
• Use in ransomware campaigns ☠️
• Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS) ranking 🎯

AI-Powered CVE Classification

AASM now leverages AI and OpenAI's LLM to automatically classify detected CVEs, helping security teams prioritize and respond more effectively.

New Charts, New Security Insights

Understanding vulnerability trends over time is critical. AASM now provides two dynamic charts to enhance your security analysis:

• Historical Risk Analysis: Tracks monthly vulnerability trends based on risk levels, helping teams measure progress.
• Resolution Risk Analysis: Evaluates the efficiency of vulnerability management by visualizing how quickly issues are resolved over time.

Improved Reporting with CSV/JSON Export

Users can now download detailed security reports in CSV or JSON formats, choosing to export all issues or only filtered ones. 

Additional Enhancements Released in Jan-Feb:

• Upgraded from a 3-level to a 5-level risk model for better prioritization.
• Multi-select filters on AASM and Security Issues pages.
• Auto-reopening vulnerabilities if they are detected again.
• Security Posture widget updates with enhanced vulnerability statistics.

For more details, visit our documentation.

We’re excited to announce the launch of our improved Single Sign-On (SSO) Provisioning—a better way to manage users and permissions in Wallarm. This new enhancement to the platform’s existing SSO support allows customers to manage users and roles from within their SSO provider. 

Benefits at a Glance:

• Centralized Control: Manage all user access from one place.
• Faster Onboarding: Seamlessly add and update users via your SSO provider.
• Align groups in your SSO provider with Wallarm roles. Every new user added to an SSO group will automatically receive appropriate access to Wallarm!

You can read more in the documentation. To activate SSO Provisioning, contact the Wallarm support team.

We’re excited to announce that the latest Wallarm node now includes a full-fledged GraphQL parser!

With this enhancement, Wallarm significantly improves the detection of input validation attacks (e.g., SQL injections) within GraphQL requests, offering greater accuracy and minimal false positives.

Key Benefits:

• Improved detection of input validation attacks (e.g., SQL injections) 
• Detailed Parameter Insights: Extract and display values of GraphQL request parameters in API Sessions, utilizing them as Session Context Parameters. 
  

• Precise Attack Search: Precisely identify attacks in specific GraphQL request components, such as arguments, directives, and variables.

• Advanced Rule Application: Apply granular protection rules to specific GraphQL request parts. This enables fine-tuning and configuring exclusions for certain attack types in defined parts of GraphQL request

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These capabilities are included in Wallarm node version 5.3.0+. 

Wallarm has introduced updates to the rule creation workflow, aimed at improving clarity and usability. These changes simplify the process of creating rules by dividing it into a structured, two-step approach.

Step 1: Users select the rule type, with rules now grouped into clearer, more intuitive categories.
Step 2: Users configure the parameters for the selected rule.

The rules are categorized as follows:

• Mitigation Controls – Enable and configure protection mechanisms, such as Advanced Rate Limiting, GraphQL API Protection, or a custom Virtual Patch.
• Fine-Tuning Attack Detection – Define exclusions and adjust detection behavior, disable WAAP protection for a certain application, disable specific parsers that are not required or disable detection of specific attack-types in specific parameters. 
• Change Requests/Responses – general rules for handling request/response data: add custom headers or mask sensitive information.
• API Discovery Settings – Configure API discovery parameters.

These updates aim to enhance the efficiency and clarity of rule creation, making it easier for users to implement and manage security configurations.

Read more about rules in our documentation. 

* It should be noted that the list of features may vary depending on the client’s subscriptions and user role.

Introducing Threat Replay Testing: Turn Real Attacks into Your Security Advantage

Launching January 27th, Wallarm's Threat Replay Testing (TRT) transforms your API security testing by converting actual attack attempts into comprehensive security tests. This innovative approach moves beyond traditional synthetic testing to help organizations identify and address real-world vulnerabilities.

Key Features

• Converts incoming attacks into sanitized security tests
• Automated testing in staging environments
• Comprehensive attack surface coverage through attack variation generation
• Safe payload sanitization to prevent system damage

Benefits

• Identify vulnerabilities from real attack patterns
• Reduce security team workload with automated test generation
• Maintain system stability with non-production testing
• Stay ahead of emerging threats through continuous testing

For more information, contact our sales team or visit our documentation portal.

Today we are excited to announce our new capability 

🔐 Sensitive Business Flows (SBF) & Advanced User Attribution in API Sessions

• Available in API Discovery & API Sessions: Automatically identify and tag critical endpoints related to key business functions like authentication, billing, and account management across both API Discovery and API Sessions.
• Customizable Tagging: Easily adjust and assign Sensitive Business Flows tags manually to meet your unique business requirements.

• Focused Security: Filter and prioritize the protection of your most vital API endpoints and user sessions, ensuring robust security where it matters most.
  
  

  

  👥 Advanced User Attribution in API Sessions

  • User & Role-Based Filtering: Attribute sessions to specific users and roles, enabling targeted monitoring and improved threat detection.

  • Granular Insights: Gain deeper visibility into API sessions to implement more effective analysis of user activity and take security measures faster.

    
    
    

    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

We are proud to introduce a unique security feature tailored for the API economy—API Sessions. This a game-changing addition that gives you unmatched visibility into attacks, anomalies, and user behavior across your APIs, providing transparency into how users interact with your APIs and applications.

In the complex world of APIs, attackers often exploit vulnerable endpoints by blending their actions with legitimate user behavior. Without the full context of how those sessions unfold, identifying patterns or threats becomes a time-consuming process involving multiple tools and systems. Organizations simply don't have visibility at the API level at all. 

With API Sessions, security teams now have the ability to see all relevant activity grouped by user session, offering unparalleled visibility into attack sequences, user anomalies, and normal behaviors. Investigations that once took hours or days can now be conducted directly from the Wallarm Console in just minutes.

Key Features:

• Visibility into attacks, anomalies, and user behavior: View and analyze every request made in a session to track attack vectors and suspicious patterns.
• Support for both legacy and modern sessions: Whether your applications rely on cookie-based sessions or JWT/OAuth, Wallarm API Sessions ensures full compatibility and visibility.
• Seamlessly navigate between individual attacks and their sessions. 

With API Sessions, security teams can now easily:

• Investigate the full activity of threat actors to understand potential attack paths and compromised resources.
• Identify how shadow or zombie APIs are being accessed, mitigating risks from undocumented or outdated APIs.
• Share key insights with colleagues to foster collaboration during security investigations.

Stay ahead of emerging threats by leveraging Wallarm’s API Sessions to give your team the tools they need for faster, more efficient incident response. 

We’re excited to introduce the Native Node, a new deployment option for the Wallarm Node that operates independently of NGINX. This solution was developed for environments where NGINX is not required or where a platform-agnostic approach is preferred. 

The Native Node allows both request and response analysis with Wallarm connectors. It is currently designed for connectors and supports deployment with MuleSoft, Cloudflare, and CloudFront. 

In addition, the Native Node now supports new connectors, allowing you to secure APIs running through Kong API Gateway and Envoy, expanding its use for modern API management solutions.

To provide flexibility across various self-hosted environments, we have released several deployment artifacts for the Native Node:

• All-in-one installer for Linux-based machines
• Docker image for containerized environments
• Helm chart for Kubernetes deployments

If you are wondering if Native Node is right for your deployment, please contact support or read the documentation. 

Security at your API Edge

We are excited to announce the launch of our new Security Edge service! This powerful solution enables customers to easily deploy filtering nodes in geographically distributed locations, providing turnkey protection for your API landscape. 

Key Benefits:

• Hosted, Managed, Simplified

Infrastructure, deployment, and monitoring are all handled by Wallarm, reducing the resources required from the customer. Wallarm ensures that nodes are kept up to date and functional, removing maintenance requirements from customers.

• Low Latency, Lower Cost

Adding additional hops to API traffic increases latency, which in turn impacts ROI for applications. Unlike other API Security solutions, such as CDNs, Security Edge nodes can be geographically distributed at the API edge to deliver security capabilities with minimal latency. 

• Operational Visibility

Managed solutions typically trade ease-of-use for operational visibility, providing a turnkey solution, but limiting the customer’s ability to understand the operational profile of each service. With Security Edge, customers have full access to logs, events, real-time traffic metrics, eliminating the trade-off. 

Stay ahead of potential threats and ensure your APIs are secure with our new Security Edge service. 

We are excited to announce the launch of our new sensitive data detection features for the API Discovery module. This powerful new enhancement helps users identify when sensitive data, such as login credentials, financial information, personal data, and technical data, are being exposed in your APIs. Our advanced detection technology allows for easy customization with context words, making it simpler and more effective than ever to protect your sensitive information.

Key Benefits:

• Enhanced Security: Automatically detects and alerts users to exposures of sensitive data with 40+ out of the box detections, reducing the risk of data breaches.
• Regulatory Compliance: Helps ensure compliance with data protection regulations such as HIPAA, PCI, and GDPR.
• User-Friendly Customization: Easily create custom detections using context words, without the need for complex regular expressions.
• Operational Efficiency: Reduces manual monitoring efforts, freeing up resources for other critical tasks.
• Real-Time Monitoring: Continuous monitoring of API requests and responses for immediate detection and response.

Stay ahead of potential threats and ensure your data is secure with our new sensitive data detection enhancements.