We’re happy to announce that the Download Reports feature is now available in API Attack Surface Management. Users can download reports of the discovered APIs, scanned perimeter, WAF testing, vulnerabilities and much more. 🚀

Users can now export data in three different report formats:

1. DOCX Report: Provides detailed insights into both the Attack Surface and Security Issues. It now includes filtering options to select which risk levels of security issues are included.
2. CSV Reports: Export Attack Surface data in a tabular format, grouped by:

• Hosts
• Ports
• APIs

1. JSON Report: Machine-readable format for easy integration and automation.

Start exploring these new capabilities today and provide your feedback! 🎉

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AASM now detects approximately 2,500 of the most widespread vulnerabilities affecting APIs, and it now scans for outdated versions of software across web servers, frameworks, libraries, CMS platforms, plugins, programming languages, network services, and API gateways.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+. 

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. 

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.

We are excited to announce a new update to Wallarm’s latest innovation in API security— API Attack Surface Management. AASM is designed to help organizations effortlessly discover and protect their external API attack surface, identify missing WAF/WAAP solutions and mitigate API Leaks. AASM is an agentless solution, so no installation is required. You can get results in under 5 minutes. You can request access to the product at sales@wallarm.com, or if you have any questions, please contact support@wallarm.com. 

Recent update:

In this update, we’ve released an API Details View (simply click on a hostname). This view allows you to see far more detail than before:

• API Specific Details: You can view specific details about APIs, such as API type, protocol, encryption, API gateways, security vendors, and more.
• API Gateway Detection: AASM now detects up to 15 API gateways, including Apigee, Mulesoft, Kong, WSO2, and more.
• WAF/WAAP Score Report: You can download the WAAP Score Evaluation report, which provides specific details about the types of attacks your WAF/WAAP can detect and its false-positive rates.
• Detection of WAAP solutions for each open port: It helps identify WAAP coverage gaps. For example, when the main port 443/TCP is protected with WAAP, but some additional ports, such as 8080/TCP, are not.
• AASM detects service fingerprinting: identifying software/version for each open port. Currency, it works only for ports, not for APIs. We plan to implement more functionality on API fingerprinting in the future.

We are excited to announce the release of Wallarm Node 5.0! This major update represents a significant shift in our technology stack, bringing enhanced performance and scalability to your Wallarm deployment.

Key Highlights:

• New Technology Stack: The Wallarm node has been re-engineered from a Ruby-based implementation to Go, resulting in a faster, more scalable, and resource-efficient solution.
• Performance Improvements: The Wallarm Postanalytics module’s performance has been improved:
  • CPU Usage: Reduced from 0.5 CPU cores to just 0.1 CPU cores.
  • Memory Usage: Lowered by 400 MB at a traffic rate of 500 requests per second.

File System Updates:

• Consolidated Logging: Logs from almost all services are now recorded in a single file, wcli-out.log, simplifying log management.
• Updated Diagnostic Script Path: The diagnostic script has been moved to /opt/wallarm/collect-info.sh from its previous location.

Important Notes:

• This release focuses on technical refactoring and does not introduce any changes in functionality. All features supported in the previous version (4.10) are retained in 5.0.

For a detailed overview of all changes and update instructions, please refer to our updated documentation.