Provider of AI-powered infrastructure software Progress (Nasdaq: PRGS) today released new and powerful enhancements to help organisations protect their web applications against increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks, using AI-driven capabilities.

Web applications present attractive targets for malicious actors seeking to exploit vulnerabilities and gain unauthorised access to sensitive information. Enabling all Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP)-based WAF filters can inadvertently block legitimate users and impact application performance, but disabling the same filters without careful consideration can make applications vulnerable to attacks.

Progress® LoadMaster® 360, Progress’ cloud-based application delivery platform, enables customers to tune their Web Application Firewall (WAF) to reduce false positives alerts, enhance web application security and provide an optimal application experience.

With its intelligent AI-driven false positive identification and smart rule tuning, LoadMaster 360 helps easily identify false positives for legitimate application traffic, empowering customers to more easily secure their applications.

Identifying attacks from false positives is a challenging and time-consuming effort, especially for non-security experts. With access to detailed data in LoadMaster 360, they can more easily configure and customise the LoadMaster WAF technology and quickly identify a potential security issue only when it occurs.

LoadMaster 360 helps customers find the right balance between the two extremes by providing precise WAF configuration and tuning based on smart traffic analysis.

“To address the complexity of today’s evolving web-based threats, infrastructure teams need intelligent and advanced technology that can precisely filter, monitor and block malicious traffic without impacting operations,” said Sundar Subramanian, EVP & General Manager, Infrastructure Management, Progress. “With today’s release of LoadMaster 360, we are giving our customers powerful technology, which, when combined with other application security capabilities such as single sign-on and pre-authentication, can help them combat cyberthreats and maintain their application performance.”