Protection and evidence for regulated finance.
Sector threats
Finance risk profile
Credential stuffing
Automated login using leaked credentials.
Card testing
High-volume API abuse against payment endpoints.
L7 DDoS
Low-and-slow floods on login and transfer paths.
OWASP Top 10
SQLi, XSS and sensitive-data exposure.
Credential stuffing
Automated login against customer portals using leaked credentials.
Card testing & BIN enumeration
High-volume API abuse against payment and transaction endpoints.
Application-layer DDoS
Low-and-slow floods targeting login, transfer, and checkout paths.
OWASP Top 10 attacks
SQL injection, XSS, and sensitive-data exposure against web and API surfaces.
Recommended capabilities
WAF for payment and web applications
Every hostname gets a dedicated Web ACL with managed OWASP Top 10 rule packs (SQL injection, XSS, sensitive data exposure) and custom rules for admin paths, API key requirements, and IP/CIDR policies.
Request and response inspection blocks attacks at ingress and catches error disclosures and data leaks in responses before they reach users.
Request normalization neutralises encoded and obfuscated payloads before rule evaluation.
See: Web application firewall
API protection for transaction endpoints
Protect payment and account APIs with limits that match real abuse patterns — not blunt per-IP throttles alone:
Per IP + URL path — cap POST to /api/login or /api/payment independently of other traffic.
Composite keys — mix IP, path, HTTP method, and named headers such as an API key header.
Custom rules — require API key headers on machine-to-machine endpoints.
Upstream signals — forward WAF disposition and verification status to your application layer.
See: API security
Credential stuffing defence
The managed bot control pack classifies credential-stuffing automation, CLI clients, and headless browsers. Apply challenge or proof-of-work captcha on authentication endpoints without blocking legitimate customers — verified humans receive a time-limited session token.
Allow verified monitoring bots; captcha or block aggressive automation. Labels integrate with WAF policy for stepped-up responses on repeat offenders.
See: Bot management
DDoS and reputation at the edge
Layer 7 rate limits absorb brute-force bursts and HTTP floods. Managed IP reputation labels traffic from suspicious hosting and scraper networks before a flood builds — chain to challenge, captcha, or block downstream.
Attack volume shed at the edge; rate limits scoped per endpoint so other routes stay unaffected.
See: DDoS protection
Delivery without single points of failure
Health-aware load balancing across multiple origins with HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, or gRPC probes. Dynamic DNS origin discovery as infrastructure scales. Request ID on every transaction for forensic correlation across edge and backend logs.
See: Load balancing & delivery
Evidence for assessors and incident response
Structured JSONL access logs capture domain, WAF terminating action, matched rules, security labels, cache status, and Request ID — ship to your SIEM for PCI, SOC 2, and incident investigations. Prometheus metrics and a live dashboard show blocks, challenges, and top matched rules without querying raw logs first.
Policy changes (WAF rules, rate limits, origins) apply on reload — no application redeploy.
See: Observability & operations