Attacks against your public web applications
The OWASP Top 10: SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), remote code execution, path traversal, and deserialization attacks.
Managed service · Cloudflare partner
Managed WAF and web protection
Lynxsource is a Cloudflare partner offering managed WAF and web protection 24/7, with in-house teams in Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia, the United States, and Canada. We deploy the protection on Cloudflare, monitor it from our Security Operations Center on Microsoft Sentinel, and respond when an attack happens.
What is a managed WAF?
A managed WAF is a web application firewall that a specialist provider configures, tunes, and monitors continuously on your behalf, instead of handing you the tool for your team to operate.
A WAF — web application firewall — sits in front of your web applications and inspects every request before it reaches your server. It blocks the ones it recognizes as attacks: a SQL injection, an attempt to run remote code, a bot testing stolen passwords. It is the difference between your application receiving traffic and receiving verified traffic.
The difference between switching on a WAF and buying a managed one is not the tool, which is usually the same one. It is what happens afterwards. A freshly enabled WAF ships with generic rules that know nothing about your application: left strict they block legitimate traffic, and loosened they let attacks through. Tuning them takes understanding what your application does, reviewing what the WAF flags, and correcting the criteria every time the application changes.
And it takes someone watching. An attack does not wait for business hours: the window between when it starts and when someone notices is exactly what decides whether it was an incident or an outage. Without continuous monitoring, a WAF that is switched on records the attack but does not contain it.
How does the Lynxsource service work?
Lynxsource deploys the protection on Cloudflare — WAF, anti-DDoS rules, and CDN — feeds its logs into Microsoft Sentinel, and monitors them from its SOC around the clock, with in-house analysts who respond when something happens.
The service is called WAF Watch and it is delivered as a managed service, on an MSSP model: you buy no licenses, build no tooling, and need no security team of your own. The technology, the operations center, and the continuous operation are all Lynxsource.
Deployment
We configure Cloudflare on your applications: WAF rules tuned to what your application actually does, anti-DDoS protection, and a content delivery network. You never have to learn the tool.
Continuous monitoring
Your Cloudflare logs feed into Microsoft Sentinel and our Security Operations Center watches them, with certified analysts on shifts and permanent on-call cover, seven days a week.
Assisted triage
Three in-house AI agents — Triage Agent, Report Generator, and Response Assistant — assess and prioritize every alert in under a minute, and assemble the evidence so the analyst decides on a case that is already put together.
Response
An analyst picks up the case the AI flagged in four minutes on average, contains the attack, and then explains what happened, what was done, and what is worth adjusting so it does not happen again.
What threats does managed web protection cover?
Lynxsource managed web protection covers OWASP Top 10 attacks, bots and credential abuse, denial-of-service attacks, and the signals that an application has already been compromised.
Attacks against web applications are not one kind of thing, and protection that watches only one leaves the rest open. This is what the service detects and contains:
Bots and credential abuse
Malicious automation against login forms, public APIs, and internal search, including large-scale testing of leaked passwords.
Denial-of-service attacks
Application saturation, volumetric attacks, and layer 7 attacks. DDoS is one of the threats the service covers, not the whole service.
Signals that an application was compromised
Suspicious outbound traffic from applications that normally only receive, which is among the first traces of a server already taken.
Suspicious remote access
If you run Zero Trust access: multi-factor authentication fatigue and logins from unusual geolocations.
Malicious changes to your own configuration
DNS hijacking, disabled WAF rules, and modified access policies — how an attacker opens the door before walking through it.
No protection covers everything, and the exact scope of what is and is not included belongs in the conversation before signing, not in the small print after an incident.
Why does Lynxsource build on Cloudflare?
Lynxsource is an official Cloudflare partner, which means it deploys the platform following the vendor’s recommended practices and can scale the protection as your operation grows.
Cloudflare sits in front of your application and filters traffic before it reaches your infrastructure, so a volumetric attack is absorbed on the vendor’s network rather than on your server. That is the part the platform solves by design.
Being an official partner adds what the platform does not ship with: the right initial configuration for your case, the judgment to tune rules without blocking your customers, and an escalation path to the vendor when an incident calls for it. Anyone can buy the tool; what you are buying here is that it is set up properly and that someone is watching it.
Who is Lynxsource?
Lynxsource is an integration and managed security and IT services company operating since 2009, ISO 27001 certified, with in-house teams — not resale — in Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia, the United States, and Canada.
The distinction between in-house teams and resale is the one that most changes what you actually get. In a resale model, your provider opens a ticket with another provider and passes the answer along when it arrives. Here the analysts, the automation, and the operations center belong to Lynxsource, so whoever answers is the one who decides.
ISO 27001
Certified management system
2022 version, accredited by EMA. Certificate 1519.1325.
120,000
Alerts handled per month
The volume entering our SOC and classified every month without human intervention.
2009
Operating since
Continuously since then. The in-house SOC has been running since 2022.
5 countries
With in-house teams
Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia, the United States, and Canada. Our own staff, not representatives.
24/7
Continuous monitoring
Certified analysts on shifts, with permanent on-call cover seven days a week.
Who is this service for?
This service is for companies with business-critical web applications across Latin America and North America that need continuous protection and do not have — or do not want to build — a dedicated security team.
Coverage follows where Lynxsource has in-house teams, and that matters for two practical reasons: the response arrives in your hours and in your language, and there is a local entity to contract with. What does not change with the country is the service.
Online commerce and services
Where an application that is down is revenue that does not happen, and a breach is a trust problem that outlasts the outage.
Financial and healthcare organizations
Where the data the application handles is regulated and a leak carries consequences well beyond the technical ones.
Critical infrastructure and the public sector
Where service continuity is the obligation, and the exposed surface was rarely designed by any single person.
Companies with no security team of their own
Where security currently rests on the IT group, which already has its own work and cannot watch overnight.
Frequently asked questions
What is a managed WAF?
A managed WAF is a web application firewall that a specialist provider configures, tunes, and monitors continuously, instead of handing the tool over for the client’s team to operate. It includes deployment, rule tuning, monitoring, and response to attacks.
What is the difference between switching on a WAF and buying a managed one?
The tool is usually the same; what changes is what happens after it is switched on. A freshly enabled WAF ships with generic rules that know nothing about the application: strict, they block legitimate traffic; loosened, they let attacks through. A managed service tunes those rules, watches what the WAF flags around the clock, and responds when there is an attack.
Does the protection include DDoS attacks?
Yes. Denial of service — application saturation, volumetric attacks, and layer 7 attacks — is one of the threats the service covers, alongside the OWASP Top 10, bots, credential abuse, and compromise signals.
What technology does it run on?
The protection is deployed on Cloudflare, of which Lynxsource is an official partner, and the monitoring runs on Microsoft Sentinel from Lynxsource’s own Security Operations Center.
In which countries does Lynxsource provide this service?
Lynxsource operates with in-house teams in Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia, the United States, and Canada. Web protection is a cloud service, so the protected application can live anywhere; what follows the geography is the team that attends to it.
Do I need a security team to buy it?
No. The service is contracted on an MSSP model with a monthly fee: Lynxsource provides the technology on Cloudflare, the Security Operations Center, and the 24/7 operation. The client buys no licenses and builds no tooling.
What happens when an attack is detected?
The alert reaches the SOC and is classified and prioritized in under a minute. An analyst picks up the case in four minutes on average, contains the attack, and afterwards explains what happened, what was done, and what is worth adjusting.
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