Qualys brings IronBee Web Application Firewall to life
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Qualys, one of the original cloud-based security vendors, has come good on last year’s promise to release a web application firewall (WAF) based on open source code.
Codenamed IronBee, the WAF will send traffic running to and from an application to Qualys servers, scanning it to check for threats.
When IT Pro spoke to the man leading the IronBee project, Ivan Ristic, in 2011, he said the company was not concerned about competitors taking the code and using it for their own rival products. But in light of the recent Symantec source code leak, which saw pcAnywhere customers placed in danger, was Qualys worried about the potential security threat to its own software if it was sharing the code with the wider community?
