Blog Security Stopping Active Attacks with Penalty Box Ryan Barnett is a Principal Security Researcher working on the Akamai Threat Research Team supporting App and API Protector security solutions. In addition to his primary work at Akamai, he is also a WASC Board Member and OWASP Project Leader for: Web Hacking Incident Database (WHID) and Distributed Web Honeypots. Mr. Barnett is a frequent speaker at security industry conferences such as Black Hat and has authored two web security books: Preventing Web Attacks with Apache (Pearson) and The Web Application Defender's Cookbook: Battling Hackers and Defending Users (Wiley). A web application firewall (WAF) is most often used by organizations for external security controls to detect and block individual attack attempts against target web application assets.…