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What types of attacks can a web application firewall protect against?
Time : 2024-03-15 11:43:56
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  Internet applications in the web environment are becoming more and more widespread. Everyone should have heard about firewalls, but what types of attacks can web application firewalls defend against? Today, let's learn about web application firewalls. Web application firewalls also have great advantages in ensuring network security.

  What types of attacks can web application firewalls defend against?

  Web application firewalls provide application layer security. This is the top layer of data processing in the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model, which interacts directly with the client. Whenever a client makes a request, it first reaches this layer. The waf firewall is located in front of this layer, acting as an additional shield to inspect traffic and protect it from various threats.

  Web application firewall is a website web application security protection product that intercepts common web attacks (such as SQL injection, XSS cross-site, etc.) or application resource consumption attacks (CC) launched against your website. At the same time, it can also meet your website's defense of business risks from the perspective of traffic management, such as Bot defense, account security and other scenarios. Web application firewalls identify and protect malicious features of website or APP business traffic, and return normal and secure traffic to the server. Prevent malicious intrusions on website servers, ensure the security of core business data, and solve server performance anomalies caused by malicious attacks.

  Web application firewall, referred to as WAF, is used to monitor, filter and intercept traffic that may be harmful to websites, prevent malicious intrusions on website servers, and cause server performance anomalies, and ensure the business security and data security of websites.

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  What types of attacks can web application firewalls defend against?

  Different from traditional firewalls, in addition to intercepting specific IP addresses or ports, WAFs more deeply detect Web traffic and detect attack signals or possible injections. In addition, WAFs are customizable - there are many different specific rules for different applications.

  1. Avoid illegal infringement to a greater extent

  As a security guarantee for protecting the network environment, web application firewalls can prevent more unsafe factors from entering the network system, and can also prevent external network users from entering the network system without authorization. Using web application firewall technology combined with software and hardware is equivalent to setting up a secure gateway between networks, thereby preventing users from being illegally infringed through the internal network.

  2. Significantly improve the overall security of the network

  The use of web application firewalls can greatly improve the overall security of the network, and can also reduce a series of risks generated by people browsing the network, so that enterprises can better protect the security of information and the security of websites.

  3. Meet the Web security protection requirements of user compliance

  Improve the ability of enterprise users to respond quickly to security incidents, and meet the requirements of boundary protection and access control in the security protection requirements.

  What types of attacks can web application firewalls defend? In the Internet environment, network attacks are everywhere and web applications are often targeted. Web application firewall is a website web application security protection product. Protecting network security is already a very important thing at this stage.

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