@Article{cmes.2022.020976,
AUTHOR = {Tomás Sureda Riera, Juan Ramón Bermejo Higuera, Javier Bermejo Higuera, Juan Antonio Sicilia Montalvo, José Javier Martínez Herráiz},
TITLE = {Systematic Approach for Web Protection Runtime Tools’ Effectiveness Analysis},
JOURNAL = {Computer Modeling in Engineering \& Sciences},
VOLUME = {133},
YEAR = {2022},
NUMBER = {3},
PAGES = {579--599},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/CMES/v133n3/49215},
ISSN = {1526-1506},
ABSTRACT = {Web applications represent one of the principal vehicles by which attackers gain access to an organization’s network
or resources. Thus, different approaches to protect web applications have been proposed to date. Of them, the two
major approaches areWeb Application Firewalls (WAF) and Runtime Application Self Protection (RASP). It is, thus,
essential to understand the differences and relative effectiveness of both these approaches for effective decisionmaking regarding the security of web applications. Here we present a comparative study between WAF and RASP
simulated settings, with the aim to compare their effectiveness and efficiency against different categories of attacks.
For this, we used computation of different metrics and sorted their results using F-Score index. We found that
RASP tools scored better than WAF tools. In this study, we also developed a new experimental methodology for
the objective evaluation of web protection tools since, to the best of our knowledge, no method specifically evaluates
web protection tools.},
DOI = {10.32604/cmes.2022.020976}
}