Problems of Traditional WAF

High Deployment and Maintenance Costs

Traditional WAF solutions often require substantial upfront costs for hardware, software licenses, and ongoing maintenance, resulting in a high total cost of ownership.

Limited Effectiveness Against Advanced Threats

Signature-based detection and predefined rules in traditional WAFs struggle to keep pace with sophisticated attacks, such as zero-day exploits, bots, and API vulnerabilities.

Rigid Security Policies

Traditional WAF solutions typically have rigid, static security policies that require manual updates to adapt to emerging threats, leading to slower response times and potential vulnerabilities.

Performance Bottleneck and Latency

Inspection of traffic, particularly encrypted traffic, can introduce significant latency, degrading the user experience and application performance.

Manual Management and Operational Overhead

The management of traditional WAF systems often requires significant manual configuration, ongoing tuning, and intervention, increasing operational overhead.

Limited Visibility and Control

Traditional WAF solutions often provide insufficient visibility into application traffic, offering limited granularity in security controls and insights, especially in multi-cloud or hybrid environments.