Network firewalls like CSF can’t filter attacks against web applications because they look like legitimate web requests. Do you need both? Network firewalls protect servers from malicious traffic at the network layer, as discussed in ‌ How To Survive a DDoS Attack, which explains how to install and configure the Config Server Security Firewall (CSF) with cPanel & WHM. You may be wondering how web-application firewalls differ from the network firewall your server already has. It includes rules that protect web apps against a wide range of threats, including the OWASP Top Ten, a regularly updated list of the most common attacks.

The Open Web Application Security Project® (OWASP) Core Rule Set is the most widely used. Rules are typically provided as a rule set created by a third party, although users can add their own. ModSecurity is a rule-based firewall it compares requests to a list of rules, looking for patterns that match attacks such as SQL injection, session hijacking, cross-site scripting, and more. It monitors incoming web traffic for threats in real-time, blocking malicious connections before they reach applications. ModSecurity is a web application firewall. What Is Apache ModSecurity and How Does It Work? In this article, we’re going to look at what ModSecurity does and how you can install and configure ModSecurity 3 on cPanel & WHM.

It does not depend on Apache and can be used with other web servers, including NGINX.

ModSecurity 3 is faster than earlier versions.

It should be emphasized that ModSecurity 3 support is experimental, but it offers a couple of significant advantages: cPanel & WHM includes many features that help web hosts and site administrators to repel bad bots, including the ModSecurity web application firewall (WAF).ĬPanel & WHM has supported ModSecurity 2 for many years, and in cPanel 92, we introduced support for ModSecurity 3. In 2019, bad bots generated a quarter of all web traffic. Attackers target every website and ecommerce store eventually, hoping to find a vulnerability they can exploit to inject code, misuse resources, or steal data. Automated attack bots bombard web apps with malicious requests as soon they go online.

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