How to Add Wallarm to Protect Your NGINX Plus Installation
How to Add Wallarm to Protect Your NGINX Plus Installation Why a WAF? If you are developing applications based on a high‑performance application server such as NGINX Plus, you need to consider security implications, especially if your web application accepts requests from outside the company perimeter. A web application firewall (WAF) is a security module focused on applications themselves, providing highly granular and customizable logic for protecting both web applications and the underlying data. For example, many of the vulnerabilities a WAF protects from are common across many web applications. These types of vulnerabilities are well documented in Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) and include SQL injection, cross‑site scripting, field/cookie validation, and others. Together, NGINX Plus and WAF: Inspect traffic at Layer 7 Protect web applications from OWASP vulnerabilities Can be configured with security rules based on signatures, specific to the web [ more… ]
