WAPPLES is a 3rd generation WAF solution that combines various techniques such as blacklisting, whitelisting and data packet analysis to logically detect and categorize attacks. Due to its logic-based approach to detection, WAPPLES detects new variants of attacks, along with modified attack patterns with minimal signature updates. Essentially WAPPLES is a signature-free solution. As a result WAPPLES avoids performance degradation that impacts competing 1st and 2nd generation, signature-based WAFs.
