How it works...

The WAF feature helps increase security by checking all incoming traffic. As this can slow down performance, we can exclude some items. Excluded items will not be checked. WAF can work in two modes: detection and prevention. Detection will only detect if a malicious request is sent, while prevention will stop any such request.

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