Can websites use judo logic to defend themselves, turning one of their attackers’ key strategies against them? That’s the idea behind a new product that shields websites by continually morphing its visible code, creating what some have described as the first “botwall.”
The Mountain View, Calif.-based Shape Security’s ShapeShifter is a network-security appliance that utilizes real-time polymorphism, dynamically changing code in a website’s user interface into random strings that still deliver the functionality of HTML, CSS, and Javascript.