What is best website Firewall?
43% of cyber attacks target small businesses.
In today’s digital landscape, the prevalence of cyber threats poses a significant risk to online businesses and organizations.
However, despite the looming specter of cyber attacks, a staggering 81% of websites remain unprotected.
This alarming statistic underscores a glaring gap in website security—a gap exacerbated by the prohibitive cost and complexity associated with traditional firewall solutions.
Historically, website security has been dichotomized into two distinct paradigms:
on one end of the spectrum, there are rudimentary firewall solutions that offer minimal protection and fail to address the evolving threat landscape adequately.
On the other end, there are highly sophisticated, enterprise-grade firewalls replete with advanced features tailored for large organizations with substantial resources and cybersecurity expertise.
This binary approach to website security has left a vast swath of website owners in limbo, grappling with the dilemma of choosing between inadequate protection and prohibitively complex solutions.
For many small to medium-sized businesses, the exorbitant costs and steep learning curves associated with advanced firewall solutions render them inaccessible, perpetuating the vulnerability of countless websites to cyber attacks.
Moreover, increasing cost of web application firewall deployment in enterprise servers and global shortages in technology workforces are hindering growth of the market.
Web application security mitigation requires various data management and protection capabilities to handle vulnerabilities such as Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and Structured Query Language (SQL) injection.
These processes are affecting direct operational cost of an organization.
Also, technical knowledge in managing threat response, DevOps, and network security control skills is required, for handling such vulnerabilities.
According to International Monetary Fund (IMF), there will be a global shortage of over 85 million tech workers by 2030, which is representing USD 8.5 trillion in loss of annual revenue.
These skill gaps are delaying widespread deployment of web application firewall services or solutions in the industry, which is expected to hinder growth of the market over the forecast period.
Recognizing this pervasive challenge, Genius Plugin Firewall was conceived as a groundbreaking solution to democratize website firewall and make advanced cybersecurity accessible to all. By leveraging innovative technology and reimagining the user experience, Genius Plugin Firewall transcends the traditional trade-off between efficacy and usability, offering a holistic security solution that is both comprehensive and intuitive.
At its core, Genius Plugin Firewall was born out of a desire to empower website owners, IT consultants, web agencies, and security experts with a viable security solution that strikes the perfect balance between functionality, affordability, and ease of use.
By bridging the gap between rudimentary firewalls and complex enterprise-grade solutions, Genius Plugin Firewall fills a crucial niche in the cybersecurity landscape, equipping website owners with the tools they need to protect their digital assets proactively.
While industry giants cater to enterprise clientele with exorbitant price tags and complex configurations, Genius Plugin democratizes WAF accessibility, offering enterprise-grade protection at a fraction of the cost and with a user-friendly interface that caters to both seasoned security experts and newcomers alike.
In essence, Genius Plugin Website Firewall represents a paradigm shift in application security—one that challenges the status quo and champions inclusivity, accessibility, and efficacy. By democratizing advanced cybersecurity and making it accessible to the masses, Genius Plugin Firewall heralds a new era of digital resilience, where every website, regardless of size or budget, can enjoy robust protection against cyber threats.
But this is actually just the tip of the iceberg. The revolution goes much deeper
The debate surrounding the efficacy of website security firewalls and their impact on user data has come to the forefront of online discourse.
The prevailing trend among many website firewall providers involves the implementation of comprehensive user domain data suction coupled with compulsory domain nameserver changes (DNS), sometimes also packaged with the allure of Content Delivery Network (CDN) functionality. Marketed as a boon to website security, this approach may spark skepticism among experts who could view it as nothing more than clever marketing tactics.
This raises critical questions, including why we have reached this point of desperation to properly secure a website without spending a fortune, going so far as to give consent to all our customer data, emails, passwords, and others. Just relying on the word or reputation of a supplier? Have we learned nothing from the “prism” crisis? If a government has collected mass amounts of personal data from various major technology companies, could we exclude security companies from this? What is the solution?
Unfortunately for traditional firewalls that rely on hosting their entire code or most of the code on the same server—an approach fraught with vulnerabilities and susceptibility to exploitation—cannot be a solution simply because of their own definition as firewalls. The inherent flaw in hosting firewall code on the same server lies in its susceptibility to exploitation. Hackers, armed with intimate knowledge of the code’s inner workings, can exploit vulnerabilities and circumvent security measures with relative ease, rendering the firewall ineffective at best and a liability at worst.
This glaring security loophole poses a significant risk to website owners and underscores the inadequacy of traditional firewall solutions in the face of evolving cyber threats.
The Genius Plugin Website Firewall is specifically crafted to prioritize privacy, confidentiality, and data protection, offering an array of features and actions to secure sensitive information.
Contrary to the majority of competitors, clients maintain control over the data sent from the WAF setting console (dashboard) and the plugin code before actual transmission, distinguishing Genius Plugin from its counterparts.
Users can selectively activate or deactivate the transmission of various data types, such as POST content, often containing sensitive information.
Additionally, they have the ability to enable or disable the sending of HEADER data associated with each request, along with the option to activate or deactivate user intelligence tracking.
Plugin stands out as the first Firewall providing the capability to transparently and directly filter each POST and HEADER variable within the plugin code, offering unparalleled granular user control over the data sent to the firewall.
You can exclude any single specific POST & HEADER variable.
To ensure privacy compliance, we leverage hCaptcha as our human challenge system. hCaptcha adheres to privacy-focused regulations such as GDPR, LGPD, PIPL, and CCPA, assuring the protection of user data.
A pivotal privacy-enhancing measure is that GP does not retain any GET, POST, HEADER, or user tracking intelligence data. It analyzes the data on the fly, storing only the visitor’s IP and the URL page, minimizing the risk of data exposure. Only a few essential fragments of attacks are retained to empower users to enhance their website protection.
In an additional layer of data safeguarding, rulesets, which may contain fragments of visitor data (IP & URL), are not retained for more than 60 days. This ensures that potentially sensitive information is not stored longer than necessary.
Upon activation of the client package, an intricate process for service delivery may commence indefinitely. The firewall architecture is not dependent on a single cloud or data center provider but instead spans various clouds and data centers worldwide. As time progresses, requests can be directed to different localization nodes, irrespective of whether a node is operational or not, and even in the unlikely event of all nodes being offline, the client’s website continues to deliver content seamlessly. In essence, the firewall is elusive upon request, existing nowhere yet omnipresent wherever required.
What is the best website firewall is a question that only innovation will ever answer. As you explored the transformative potential of our service to stand out as the best website firewall, stay tuned for more insights into website security in our next installment. We’ll delve into the innovative architecture behind our service, spanning multiple clouds and data centers globally, offering unparalleled evasiveness and omnipresence to protect your digital assets …