Introducing UltraAPI: Bash bots and secure APIs.

Michael Smith
Field CTO

Articles by Michael Smith

April 24, 2024

CFPB, Open Banking, and APIs: Increased Financial Transparency but also Security Risk

Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) stands as the foremost defender of consumers within the financial marketplace as a...

March 21, 2024

What is An Application-Layer DDoS Attack, and How Do I Defend Against Them?

Network-based DDoS attacks, sometimes called “volumetric attacks”, have been around since the early days of the internet. Even though they...

February 29, 2024

February 2024 UltraWAF Countermeasure of the Month

Our featured countermeasure this month is Responder Policies. Responder Policies give administrators the ability to manage traffic more effectively with...

February 23, 2024

Blocking Domain Generation Algorithms with UltraDDR 

Malware and phishing are major threats in the digital landscape, and Security Operations Centers (SOCs) deal with them daily. These...

February 14, 2024

Get Ready for PCI-DSS 4.0 Compliance with Vercara’s UltraWAF

The PCI-DSS 4.0 compliance deadline is approaching – and Vercara is here to help.   In today’s digital world, protecting...

January 30, 2024

January 2024 UltraWAF Countermeasure of the Month 

In this recurring blog series, we discuss one of the countermeasures in UltraWAF, our Web Application Firewall and Bot Management...

December 12, 2023

Typosquatting and Phishing Protection with UltraDDR 

Spear Phishing and Typosquatting.  One very common type of cyberattack is called spear phishing. In this technique, the attacker sends...

November 29, 2023

November 2023 UltraWAF Countermeasure of the Month

In this recurring blog series, we discuss one of the countermeasures in UltraWAF, our Web Application Firewall and Bot Management...

November 2, 2023

Bring Your Own Lists to UltraDDR

Within UltraDDR, one of the 4 detection engines is the Lists Engine. This engine empowers you to create lists based...

October 25, 2023

October 2023 UltraWAF Countermeasure of the Month

In this recurring blog series, we discuss one of the countermeasures in UltraWAF, our Web Application Firewall and Bot Management...

September 7, 2023

Blocking DNS Exfiltration with UltraDDR 

In the first post of this series, An Introduction to Data Exfiltration and Tunneling via DNS, we introduced DNS exfiltration...

August 21, 2023

August 2023 UltraWAF Countermeasure of the Month 

In this recurring blog series, we discuss one of the countermeasures in UltraWAF, our Web Application Firewall and Bot Management...