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Application Services Update: Security, Speed, and Suspicious Visitors

Lori MacVittie Miniatura
Lori MacVittie
Published March 01, 2018

It’s time again to dig into the application services organizations are actually using to make apps faster and safer.

Of note is a rise in use of bot defense services and the slow but steady inroads being made by HTTP/2.

While not an application service, per se, the low adoption of cookie encryption (only 11%) makes us sad given it’s an easy way to add some protection to any web-based application or API.

 

 

application services jan 2018
ACCELERATE

HTTP/2 SLOWLY GROWS

Web acceleration and HTTP compression services each dropped by 1% each quarter over quarter. It appears that loss was gained by HTTP2, as it rose by 1%.

The Fourth Annual State of Application Delivery 2018 revealed that 23% of respondents plan on deploying an HTTP/2 Gateway in 2018, making it one of the top five application services planned for deployment in 2018.

CONTROL & PROTECT

SECURITY STEADFAST

Use of application access and web single-sign on services remained steady at 26% of organizations.

Analysis from F5 Labs revealed that applications and identities were the initial targets in 86% of breaches, making these application services critical.

Web security continues to see deployment at 25% of organizations.

DEFEND

BOT DEFENSE RISES

Bot defense gained 3% over last quarter, growing from 13% to 16% of organizations employing it to defend against malicious non-human traffic.

Research from F5 Labs detailing the growth of malicious bots indicates this upward trend is likely to continue

app fast facts - jan 2018