Your web applications are a gateway to your organisation — and a potential target for attackers.
Whether you operate a public website, customer portal, intranet or file-sharing platform, applications accessible from the internet need more than basic network protection.
ANSecurity’s Web Application Firewall (WAF) provides a powerful security layer between your applications and untrusted connections, helping protect your services from attacks while making application security easier to manage.
A WAF does more than block malicious traffic. It helps organisations protect applications, simplify certificate management and keep critical services available.
SSL/TLS certificates are essential for securing web applications, but managing them manually is becoming increasingly difficult.
Certificate lifetimes are getting shorter, meaning organisations will need to replace certificates more frequently. By March 2026, the maximum certificate validity period will be 200 days, reducing to 47 days by March 2029.
For organisations managing multiple applications, manually renewing and deploying certificates simply isn’t sustainable.
A WAF can centralise certificate management, removing the need to manually replace certificates across individual applications.
A WAF provides an additional layer of defence against attacks targeting your web applications.
Depending on your requirements, protection can include:
The result is greater visibility and control over traffic reaching your applications — helping you identify and stop threats before they become a business problem.
Security is only part of the challenge. Your applications also need to be available when your customers and employees need them.
A WAF can help improve resilience through:
Load balancing
Distribute application traffic across multiple servers to improve performance and resilience.
Health checking
Automatically identify unavailable application servers and redirect traffic where appropriate.
Global Service Load Balancing
Support application availability across multiple locations and environments.
IPv6 support
Prepare applications and infrastructure for modern network requirements.
A correctly deployed WAF can become a critical part of your application security architecture — helping you:
Every organisation has different applications, infrastructure and security requirements. ANSecurity can help you identify the right approach rather than simply recommending another piece of technology.
We can assess whether a WAF should be deployed as:
Virtual
Ideal for organisations already operating virtualised security infrastructure.
Physical appliance
A strong option where dedicated hardware is preferred or forms part of an existing security architecture.
Cloud delivered
Well suited to applications hosted in cloud environments and organisations looking for scalable, centrally managed protection.
We can also consider requirements such as centralised management, SSO integration, network flow visibility, high availability and global load balancing.
Choosing a WAF is about more than selecting the right technology. ANSecurity combines specialist cybersecurity expertise with practical experience designing, deploying and supporting secure network environments. We take the time to understand your applications, infrastructure and business requirements before recommending the right approach — helping you strengthen protection, improve resilience and maximise your existing security investment. And with Co-Driver support available when you need it, our expertise can continue long after deployment.
