Web application firewalls
There exist cloud native services that provide web application firewall (WAF) capabilities in a turnkey fashion. These services allow you to create rules that can filter web traffic based on conditions that include IP addresses, HTTP headers and body, or custom URIs. These services make it effortless to deploy a scalable, highly available level of protection from attacks that seek to exploit vulnerabilities in custom or third-party web applications you may deploy. These services make it simple to create rules that can mitigate common exploits like SQL injection and cross-site scripting. Rules can also be configured to block based on GeoIP to restrict access from known trouble spots in the world (for example, China, ...
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