Protection Configuration Overview

Basic web protection rules

With an extensive reputation database, WAF defends against Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) top 10 threats, and detects and blocks threats, such as malicious scanners, IP addresses, and web shells.

Configuring Basic Web Protection to Defend Against Common Web Attacks

CC attack protection rules

CC attack protection rules can be customized to restrict access to a specific URL on your website based on a unique IP address, cookie, or referer field, mitigating CC attacks.

Configuring CC Attack Protection Rules to Defend Against CC Attacks

Precise protection rules

You can customize protection rules by combining HTTP headers, cookies, URLs, request parameters, and client IP addresses.

Configuring Custom Precise Protection Rules

Blacklist and whitelist rules

You can configure blacklist and whitelist rules to block, log only, or allow access requests from specified IP addresses.

Configuring IP Address Blacklist and Whitelist Rules to Block or Allow Specified IP Addresses

Known attack source rules

These rules can block the IP addresses from which blocked malicious requests originate. These rules are dependent on other rules.

Configuring a Known Attack Source Rule to Block Specific Visitors for a Specified Duration

Geolocation access control rules

You can customize these rules to allow or block requests from a specific country or region.

Configuring Geolocation Access Control Rules to Block or Allow Requests from Specific Locations

Web tamper protection rules

You can configure these rules to prevent a static web page from being tampered with.

Configuring Web Tamper Protection Rules to Prevent Static Web Pages from Being Tampered With

Website anti-crawler protection

This function dynamically analyzes website service models and accurately identifies crawler behavior based on data risk control and bot identification systems, such as JS Challenge.

Configuring Anti-Crawler Rules

Information leakage prevention rules

You can add two types of information leakage prevention rules.

• Sensitive information filtering: prevents disclosure of sensitive information (such as ID numbers, phone numbers, and email addresses).
• Response code interception: blocks the specified HTTP status codes.

Configuring Information Leakage Prevention Rules to Protect Sensitive Information from Leakage

Global protection whitelist rules

You can configure these rules to let WAF ignore certain rules for specific requests.

Configuring a Global Protection Whitelist Rule to Ignore False Alarms

Data masking rules

You can configure data masking rules to prevent sensitive data such as passwords from being displayed in event logs.

Configuring Data Masking Rules to Prevent Privacy Information Leakage

Scanning protection rules

The scanning protection module identifies scanning behaviors and scanner features to prevent attackers or scanners from scanning websites at scale. WAF will automatically block heavy traffic web attacks and directory traversal attacks and block the source IP addresses for a period of time, helping reduce intrusion risks and junk traffic.

Configuring a Scanning Blocking Rule to Automatically Block Heavy-Traffic Attacks