Critical infrastructure such as financial services, energy, and healthcare companies are constantly under attack. To stop these types of threats, the federal government recommends adopting Zero Trust; unfortunately, 80% of critical infrastructure organizations in the United States don’t. I had the opportunity to speak in a webinar with F5 NGINX, where we discussed how to best secure critical applications that utilize F5 NGINX using the shared responsibility model. We dug deep into the network stack to learn how OPSWAT’s Certified Module for F5 NGINX Plus—a plug-and-play, zero-trust security solution—combats file upload threats. Risks and Challenges in Application Security Malicious files are a popular method for breaching cyber defenses. In 2022, Trend Micro reported over 22 billion attempts utilizing malicious files to infect systems. The rise of increasingly evasive malware increases these risks. One study found that 98% of malware uses at least one evasive technique. Organizations are aware of these