Web Application Security-Challenges and Solutions and WAFs Comparison

Due to the growing growth of web applications and the tendency to use them in most categories, especially the most important industries, financial, commercial and informational areas, the challenge of security is highlighted in great detail. By practicing security thinking at different stages of designing and producing web-based software, this can be somewhat achieved, but certainly not enough. Web applications firewalls are professional tools that can protect softwares in this area against various security challenges and prevent data being stolen or services inaccessible.In this paper, describing the security challenges ahead in the field of web applications, the firewalls will be introduced in 2017 and compared briefly

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Firewall , Web Application , Security , Vulnerability , Penetration , WAF (Web Application Firewall) , OWASP