Every inline deployment introduces a tradeoff: enhanced inspection versus increased risk of downtime. Inline protection is important, especially for APIs, which are now the most targeted attack surface, but so is consistent uptime and performance. This is where a fail-open architecture comes in. This Wallarm How-To blog outlines how to deploy Wallarm’s Security Edge platform on Azure using a fail-open design, ensuring high availability and zero disruption, even if the filtering infrastructure becomes unresponsive. The Challenge: Inline Security Without the Downtime APIs drive business-critical operations. As such, their availability is non-negotiable. Any inline solution, no matter how effective, introduces the possibility of becoming a single point of failure. If the traffic filtering node goes offline or becomes unresponsive, users could face delays, broken integrations, or full application outages. This is one of the most common objections to inline deployments. While legacy WAFs might require tradeoffs between protection and availability, modern cloud architectures allow for both. By using Azure Front Door alongside Wallarm’s distributed Security Edge nodes, organizations can architect a highly available, auto-failover system that maintains protection without jeopardizing performance. What is Wallarm Security Edge? Wallarm Security Edge is a cloud-native, managed service that deploys filtering nodes across multiple geographic regions. These nodes inspect traffic…Read More