alt Hacker NewsMitigations and patches are in the same category, so now you're applying mitigations without testing. What if your new WAF detection signature has false positives etc.?
Mitigations and patches are in the same category, so now you're applying mitigations without testing. What if your new WAF detection signature has false positives etc.?
The difference is that a mitigation is customer-applied, not vendor-supplied. Like it or not, blame shifts when a vendor supplies a fix that's insufficiently tested. The CrowdStrike BSOD incident from 2024 comes to mind.
As for WAF rules, those can usually be flipped on and off with a single switch.