With web applications under increased attacks, Akamai has analyzed data points for web application firewall (WAF) multi-vector and DDoS attacks between April 2021 and March 2022 to determine the severity of the situation in Australia. \r\n \r\n Insights from the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform signal an alarming trend \r\n We observed a massive spike in WAF attacks from September 2021 to October 2021, and a steady resurgence of these attacks with a 100% increase in Q1 2022. This shows that attackers are redoubling their efforts to disrupt the Australian market after a sharp drop between October 2021 and December 2021. \r\n The WAF activity chart in Figure 1 shows the monthly number of WAF attacks recorded from April 2021 to March 2022 per attack vector represented by the colored lines.…