Configure a web application firewall

- [Instructor] When your workloads are very important, … you may need … to add extra protection to them. … That's when you configure your application gateway … to be a web application firewall. … Let's go and click on … our application gateway AppGW, … and then, click on configuration. … Here, we can switch the application gateway, … into a web application firewall, … just by changing the tier … to WAV V2. … Now we can click on save, … and we have to wait for those changes to be applied, … and now that the changes are applied, … we can go to the web application firewall tab, … and configure what kind of rules we want to apply. … First, we need to enable the firewall, … that means clicking on firewall status, … and setting it to enabled, … and then selecting detection … or prevention firewall mode. … If we leave it at detection, … then it will detect any attempts of attack … that are caught in our rules, … but it will not prevent anything, … it will not block any attacks. … We will just log them. …