Alibaba Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Protects websites and web servers based on the intelligent computing capabilities of Alibaba Cloud Security.
overview
Located at the network egress or ingress, Alibaba Cloud WAF combines the smart protection engine, expert protection rules, proactive defence and detection engine, and cloud threat intelligence capability to identify Web attacks and malicious Web requests in real time. WAF also provides real-time defence based on predefined protection policies to ensure the security and availability of websites and applications. In addition to Web servers hosted on Alibaba Cloud, WAF can also protect websites hosted on your infrastructure.
Benefit and Features
· Web Intrusion Prevention
Multi-dimensional Dynamic Protection
Anti-scanning and Anti-detection
Custom Protection Rules
Automatic Vulnerability Prevention
· Traffic Control and Bot Management
Flexible Traffic Management
Mitigation Against HTTP Flood Attacks
Accurate Bot Identification
All-scenario Protection
Diversified Methods to Handle Bot Traffic
Scenario-specific Configuration Wizard
· Data Security Protection
API Security Protection
Data Leak Prevention
Web Tamper Proofing
Account Risk Detection
· Security O&M and Compliance
Secure Access
Full Access Logs
Automatic Asset Identification
Hybrid Cloud Deployment
Architecture
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