Web Application Firewall (WAF)

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What is Web Application Firewall (WAF)?

Application security is increasingly complex. Web Application Firewall makes it simple. Web Application Firewall is a part of an integrated platform that brings a comprehensive set of interoperable solutions and capabilities together.

A web application firewall is a specific form of application firewall that filters, monitors, and blocks HTTP traffic to and from a web service. A WAF or web application firewall helps protect web applications by filtering and monitoring HTTP traffic between a web application and the Internet.

Why we need Web Application Firewall for our organization?

A WAF protects your web applications by filtering, monitoring, and blocking any malicious HTTP/S traffic traveling to the web application, preventing unauthorized data from leaving the app. It does so by conforming to a set of policies that help determine what traffic is malicious and what traffic can be considered safe.

WAF, or the Web Application Firewall, is an integral part necessary for any effective solution to security, providing enhanced security to websites and enhancing the general posture of security.

Features of Web Application Firewall

Web traffic filtering

WAF allows you to set up rules to manage web traffic by looking at factors like IP addresses, HTTP headers and content, or specific URLs. This adds an extra layer of security against web attacks that try to take advantage of weaknesses in custom or third-party web applications. Plus, WAF simplifies the process of creating rules to stop common web threats such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting.

WAF Bot Control

WAF Bot Control is a managed rule group that helps you monitor and manage common bot traffic. This traffic can use up too many resources, affect metrics, cause downtime, or do other unwanted things. With just a few clicks, you can block or limit the speed of bots like scrapers, scanners, and crawlers, or let through bots like status monitors and search engines. The Bot Control managed rule group works with other managed rules for WAF or your own custom WAF rules to protect your applications.

Account takeover fraud prevention

WAF Fraud Control – Account Takeover Prevention is a managed rule group which performs the use case prevention of unauthorized access to user accounts through compromised credentials on the application’s login page on a constant basis. Additional measures may also be taken towards this end such as preventing users from using credentials more than once in a given time span. Further, some optional JavaScript and iOS/Android SDKs bring additional telemetry for devices trying to login into the application as well as increased security measures on app against automated bot login attempts.

Full feature API

All WAF capabilities can be managed via APIs, allowing organizations to develop and implement rules automatically and use them in the building and designing process. For instance, a security feature could be made by a developer familiar with all the ins and outs of the web application exactly in the course of deploying it. This ability to integrate security into development processes turned out to be helpful in ¬eliminating prolonged back and forth between application and security teams to ensure rules were always current.

Real-time visibility

Whenever users get connected, the WAF offers live statistics and network traffic logs, which also include the IP address range, global coordinates, URIs, User-Agent, and Referrers. AWS WAF has complete integration with AWS Cloud Watch, thereby ensuring that it is quite easy to set up custom alerts when some levels have been breached or certain attacks happen. This knowledge becomes an intelligence asset that helps in designing new patterns which will give further protection against users’ applications.