Not so long ago I was researching the different ways to secure a web application from hackers and other bad guys. Accidentally I stumbled upon a new technology in this field called RASP. The RASP stands for Runtime application self-protection. The technology looks quite promising and concentrated on the protection of an application from the inside. This aspect of RASP is quite opposite to other well-known approaches to the application security, e.g WAF or IDS/IPS. Let’s quickly revise the basic info about these approaches.