AWS WAF lets you create rules to filter web traffic based on conditions that include IP addresses, HTTP headers and body, or custom URIs. This gives you an additional layer of protection from web attacks that attempt to exploit vulnerabilities in custom or third party web applications. In addition, AWS WAF makes it easy to create rules that block common web exploits like SQL injection and cross site scripting.

AWS WAF allows you to create a centralized set of rules that you can deploy across multiple websites. This means that in an environment with many websites and web applications you can create a single set of rules that you can reuse across applications rather than recreating that rule on every application you want to protect.

AWS WAF can be completely administered via APIs. This provides organizations with the ability to create and maintain rules automatically and incorporate them into the development and design process. For example, a developer who has detailed knowledge of the web application could create a security rule as part of the deployment process. This capability to incorporate security into your development process avoids the need for complex handoffs between application and security teams to make sure rules are kept up to date.

AWS WAF can also be deployed and provisioned automatically with AWS CloudFormation sample templates that allow you to describe all security rules you would like to deploy for your web applications delivered by Amazon CloudFront.

AWS WAF provides real-time metrics and captures raw requests that include details about IP addresses, geo locations, URIs, User-Agent and Referers. AWS WAF is fully integrated with Amazon CloudWatch, making it easy to setup custom alarms when thresholds are exceeded or particular attacks occur. This information provides valuable intelligence that can be used to create new rules to better protect applications.

WAF real time logs can be ingested into an ELK stack, with the time series data being stored in Elasticsearch and data can be visualized and dashboards created in Kibana or Grafana.

 

A large real estate company headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates has a large presence on AWS across multiple accounts, including production, staging, testing and development environments. Having multiple environments which includes many functionality like integration with SFDC, with internal ERP systems, customer facing application and payment gateway integrations means that the workloads will be subject to probes to compromise and attacks which include Denial of Service and other attacks like XSS and SQL Injection attacks. Integration of AWS Web Application Firewall in the architecture means that most of the attacks or attempts to compromise are prevented even before they reach the infrastructure.

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An innovative and new age financial technology company has all its presence online and on AWS. But the web fronted portal and applications over which business is conducted are prime attack vectors for cyber criminals. The safety and security of customer data is of primary importance and is linked to the success of the company. AWS WAF provides comprehensive, integrated security and control to protect the customer data from sophisticated attacks. It was deployed in mutlple entry points, both on CloudFront and directly on the Application Load Balancer (ALB). It protects customer infrastructure against the Top 10 OWASP attacks and bad actors, including bots.

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