When Web applications are the core of your business, protecting them from abuse is crucial. High profile Web applications can provide front-door access to critical data. Sophisticated and organized attackers with deep technology skills are increasingly successful at accessing that data, and the results can be disastrous, from non-compliance, to fraud, to competitive loss.

To realize how advanced targeted threats can be disrupted and prevented, you need to clearly understand the nature of those threats. This whitepaper describes how sophisticated attackers successfully abuse Web applications, and illustrates how the Mykonos Security Appliance can help by providing early, real-time abuse detection and response.