WAFs provide application-layer protection.
Protection Capabilities
- SQL injection blocking
- XSS prevention
- CSRF protection
- Rate limiting
- Bot managementDeployment Modes
- Detection mode (logging)
- Prevention mode (blocking)
- Hybrid approachSolutions
- Cloudflare WAF
- AWS WAF
- Azure WAF
- Imperva
- F5 Advanced WAFTune rules carefully to avoid false positives.