Traffic that doesn’t meet the requirements defined in this HTTP delivery profile may be blocked before it even reaches our core network.Įstablishing traffic restrictions to block malicious traffic.

These measures define the types of application layer attacks that will be detected, such as:įiltering out unwanted traffic by screening for a custom delivery profile.

Protection from application layer attacks.Įnable a comprehensive set of threat detection measures for the purpose of identifying malicious traffic.

Our worldwide presence establishes an imposing and extensive barrier between an origin server and malicious traffic, regardless of whether it consists of a high-volume HTTP GET flood attack or a slow DDoS attack.

There are various layers to the protection provided to an origin server via WAF, such as:

Preventing a customer origin server from being overloaded.

Diverting malicious or inadvertent DDoS traffic.

Additionally, it may restrict the flow of site traffic with the intention of: It inspects inbound HTTP/HTTPS traffic against reactive and proactive security policies and blocks malicious activity in-band and on a real-time basis. WAF increases security by monitoring, detecting, and preventing application layer attacks. Our WAF service provides a layer of security between many of these security threats and your external web infrastructure. These types of attacks can result in unauthorized access to content, the loss of personally identifiable information (PII), and the dissemination of private/copyrighted information. This exposure poses a threat to your infrastructure and the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the data delivered by those resources over the Internet. For example, it contains protocols (e.g., HTTP and FTP) that facilitate communication across a network. As a result, they are vulnerable to a variety of malicious attacks including SQL injections, cross-site scripting, and application layer TCP/IP: Refers to the layer that supports applications and processes.

Many web sites, web applications, and web servers receive and process requests from outside a company's protected internal network. Finally, it controls the flow of requests to your applications. It also filters unwanted traffic by enforcing a custom delivery profile and whitelists, access list, and blacklists.

WAF Web Application Firewall is designed to secure site traffic against DDoS and application layer attacks.

Application firewall