Virtual Patching – How can it help, when it comes to cybersecurity?
Virtual patching or vulnerability shielding is a security policy of the enforcement layer. It analyses transactions, intercepts attacks in transit, and prevents malicious traffic from reaching the web application. The virtual patch does not repair the actual faulty application but intends to establish a partly upstream, additional – security mechanism to prevent the exploitation of weakness. There are several ways to implement virtual patching. Some of them are as follows
Upstream as a standalone Web Application Firewall (WAF).
As a plugin for the executing web server.
Directly on the application side by configuration adaptation.
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