Explanation of Web Application Firewall in Security Options

The Web Application Firewall (WAF), is a filter arrangement that functions to filter, monitor and block data originating from a client to a web server. Our WAF can protect against web-based attacks and improve the security of your web-based applications. Our firewall can help your website protected from some threats:

• Common web attacks, such as cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection, etc.
• CVEs, covers known vulnerabilities and exploits.
• Bad IP addresses, such as those associated with known malicious actors or botnets.
• Bad HTTP referers, such as those that are not expected based on the application's URL structure or are known to be associated with malicious actors.
• Bad crawlers, covers requests from known bad crawlers or scrapers, such as those that are known to cause performance issues or attempt to extract sensitive information from the application.
• Directory bruteforce attacks, such as by trying common directory names or using dictionary attacks.

The following is an example of using this feature: