Not too long after Amazon launched their cloud protection WAF the Microsoft Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) has been made generally available in all public Azure DCs. It’s a good move with the majority of websites and services moving into one of the big 3 cloud providers (AWS, Google or Azure) and the vast majority […]
Raptor WAF is a Web Application Firewall made in C, using DFA to block SQL Injection, Cross Site Scripting (XSS) and Path Traversal. DFA stands for Deterministic Finite Automaton also known as a Deterministic Finite State Machine. It’s essentially a simple web application firewall made in C, using the KISS principle, making polls using the […]
In the world of web application security systems, there exists a myriad of systems to protect public-facing services in any number of ways. They come packed with all the elements necessary to play an action-packed round of buzzword bingo, but they often overlap in some ways that may make them sometimes seem similar. After the second […]
WAFW00F is a Python tool to help you fingerprint and identify Web Application Firewall (WAF) products. It is an active reconnaissance tool as it actually connects to the web server, but it starts out with a normal HTTP response and escalates as necessary. You can override or include your own headers, it has SOCKS and […]
NAXSI is an open-source WAF for Nginx (Web Application Firewall) which by default can block 99% of known patterns involved in website vulnerabilities. NAXSI means Nginx Anti XSS & SQL Injection Technically, it is a third party Nginx module, available as a package for many UNIX-like platforms. This module, by default, reads a small subset […]
ModSecurity is an open source web application firewall (WAF) module that is cross platform capable. Known as the “Swiss Army Knife” of WAFs, it enables web application defenders to gain visibility into HTTP(S) traffic and provides a power rules language and API to implement advanced protections. ModSecurity is a toolkit for real-time web application monitoring, […]
