Do you know how to protect your web applications from common web attacks?

Do you know how to protect your web applications from common web attacks?

Over the past few years, organizations have experienced an increase in cyber attacks, threats and web vulnerabilities that have significantly affected business continuity

This is why the compucloud consulting team has been working to develop their knowledge and adapt new security solutions, such as with AWS WAF - Web Application Firewall.

AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps monitor requests and protect your web applications or APIs against common web attacks and bots that can affect availability, jeopardize security, or consume too many resources.

AWS WAF is responsible for inspecting all incoming traffic before it reaches the web application and filters out possible threats according to the configured rules, managing to protect the server. In this way, only those who comply with the parameters of the rules will be allowed and the rest of the traffic is classified and detected as potentially malicious and is automatically denied.

In order to protect a set of resources, it is necessary to configure the following parameters to define how the resources will be protected.

• Web ACL — Use a web access control list (ACL) to protect a set of resources. Create a web ACL and define your protection strategy by adding rules. The rules define the criteria for inspecting web requests and specify how to manage requests that match these. Set a default action for the web ACL that indicates whether to block or allow requests that pass rule inspections.

• Rules— Each rule contains a statement that defines the inspection criteria and an action that must be taken if a web request meets the criteria. When a web request meets the criteria, a match occurs. You can set up rules to block matching requests, allow them to pass, count them, or execute CAPTCHA controls against them.

• Rule groups— You can use rules individually or in reusable rule groups. In AWS Marketplace, sellers provide managed rule groups for your use, however, you can also define your own rule groups

Below is a graphic example of the above

The main features that AWS WAF has and that allow you to ensure business continuity are the following:

• Web traffic filtering

• AWS WAF Bot Control

• Preventing account takeover fraud

• Full API

• Real-time visibility

• Integration with AWS Firewall manager

Start now and protect your web applications from common web attacks. Reach out to a cloud consultant and assess your current status in the AWS cloud without obligation.

Contact us for more information: info@compucloud.com.mx