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Web application firewall overview

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Web application firewall overview

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- [Instructor] By now, you should have a very good understanding of how application gateway's work and how they are configured. But web application firewalls are not so different. They are actually a special version of an application gateway. You can set up the Web Application Firewall mode on any application gateway directly from the portal or by using PowerShell. They are used to prevent common exploit of web applications. That way you can prevent hacking attempts to the websites that are being protected by the web application firewall. Such common exploits could be SQL injection or cross-site scripting. They are based on OWASP, Open Web Application Security Project, core rule sets, which means there are certain rules that will help the web application firewall interpret that a certain request is in fact an attack against our back end. Finally, we can configure our web application firewall to operate on Detection…

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