The number of attacks on individual applications are up significantly month to month, according to research from Contrast Security. The Contrast Labs team found that, on average, applications faced 77 real attacks in February — “real” attacks, as in, those that got past the web application firewall (WAF) and reached an exploitable vulnerability. In a second major finding, attackers went after one application nearly 700,000 times. 

*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from AppSec Observer authored by Contrast Marketing. Read the original post at: https://www.contrastsecurity.com/security-influencers/application-attacks-rise-significantly-february-attack-data-contrast-security-adr