But there was a problem.
Throughput: 890 Mbps. WAF CPU load: 4%.
Three months later, a competitor asked Aris how he protected his FileCatalyst transfer engine. filecatalyst web application firewall
He realized the WAF wasn't failing because it was stupid. It was failing because it was looking for web traffic (GET, POST, cookies) inside a streaming telemetry protocol. But there was a problem
A hacker in a simulated breach attempted to inject a malformed UDP packet. The WAF's Phase 3 anomaly detector saw a jitter spike from 0.3ms to 12ms. In 14 milliseconds, the WAF sent the kill command. The FileCatalyst server terminated the session before a single packet of corrupted data reached the S3 bucket. Three months later, a competitor asked Aris how
So he rewrote the rules.
"It's beautiful, isn't it?" said Maya, his junior security architect, leaning over his shoulder. "Raw, unfiltered speed."