{"id":133621,"date":"2021-03-04T12:19:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T17:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=133621"},"modified":"2021-03-18T19:22:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T23:22:55","slug":"web-application-firewall","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/security\/network\/web-application-firewall\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Application Firewall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\" bu-callout alignright\"><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"tw icon-mapmarker\"><\/span> Quick Start<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Available to:<\/strong> Departments, IT Professionals<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cost:\u00a0<\/strong>Amazon charges a usage-based rate for this service.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>These charges will be billed according to your server hosting arrangement.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>See <a href=\"#GettingStarted\">Getting Started<\/a>, below.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n<p>A Web Application Firewall (WAF) helps protect your web applications from common web exploits that may affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>A WAF provides control over how traffic reaches applications through the creation of policies.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>These policies can block common attack patterns, such as SQL injection or cross-site scripting or filter out specific traffic patterns you define.<\/p>\n<h2>Benefits<\/h2>\n<p>Web Application Firewalls protect web applications and the data they contain against certain classes of network-based attacks by examining web requests for malicious qualities. In detection mode, these devices escalate requests of concern to analysts to identity potential security issues.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>In prevention mode the devices automatically block malicious traffic effectively stopping an attack before it happens.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Your data, business, and research interests are better protected when these technologies are in place.<\/p>\n<h2>Key Features<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Monitors web traffic for exploits and other malicious payloads and\u00a0may automatically drop malicious traffic.<\/li>\n<li>Highlights potentially malicious traffic for analysts to help detect potential data breaches.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What to Expect<\/h2>\n<p>This service normally will be available 24 by 7 except for standard change windows, as described in <a href=\"http:\/\/www-staging.bu.edu\/tech\/about\/service\/change\/\">IS&amp;T\u2019s standard policies, procedures, and schedules for making changes<\/a>.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>This service currently deployed in Amazon Web Services (AWS) exclusively, and may be subject to other AWS terms and conditions.<\/p>\n<h2>Requirements<\/h2>\n<p><span>This service is currently available only to servers deployed in AWS.<\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"GettingStarted\"><\/a>Getting Started<\/h2>\n<p>Departments wishing to protect specific resources should schedule a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/security\/policy\/architecture\/\">network design consultation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Web Application Firewall (WAF) helps protect your web applications from common web exploits that may affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":872,"featured_media":0,"parent":87827,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"service.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/133621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/872"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133621"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/133621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133857,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/133621\/revisions\/133857"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}