Application Security Report: Q2 2023
Aug 21, 2023Michael Tremante, David Belson, Sabina Zejnilovic

Summary
This report details Q2 2023 application security trends, showing that WAF custom rules are now the biggest contributor to mitigated traffic, with geolocation blocks being a common technique. Old CVEs continue to be exploited, and broken authentication rules are increasing.
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