Many widely used web development platforms, including PHP and ASP, as well as database engines used by applications at the back end have known security flaws that attackers use to exploit the application. Most attacks can be prevented at the code level. But this requires high maintenance, patching, and monitoring at multiple layers of the application. Deploying a web application firewall (WAF) in front of the server is a much simpler solution to block common attacks.<\/p>\n
Azure Web Application Firewall on Azure Application Gateway is a cloud-native service that provides centralized protection to web applications from common attacks and web vulnerabilities, including SQL injection and cross-site scripting. Let us explore how to configure Web Application Firewall (WAF) with Azure Application Gateway and understand its features and benefits.<\/p>\n
Azure Application Gateway is a web traffic load balancer that provides an IP address (front-end) to application users and routes requests to the appropriate back end in the backend pool that could include app services, virtual machines (VM), virtual machine scale sets, or even other IP addresses. Deploying Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF)with Azure Application Gateway improves protection for web applications against common vulnerabilities and simplifies management with an easy-to-configure central location. Here are the benefits of using WAF on the Application Gateway.<\/p>\n
Here are some of the features of the Azure Web Application Firewall.<\/p>\n
Creating an application gateway with Azure Web Application Firewall involves assigning listeners to ports, creating rules, and adding resources to a backend pool. Here is the procedure for using Azure WAF in a simple setup with a public front-end IP, a listener to host a single site on the application gateway, two VMs in the backend pool, and a basic request routing rule.<\/p>\n
While using Web Application Firewall (WAF) with Azure Application Gateway is one of the simplest and most robust solutions to protect web applications from malicious attacks, there are other services such as Azure Firewall, Azure ExpressRoute, and Azure Network Security Group that have overlapping capabilities. The choice of Azure service to be used depends on the workload to be protected.<\/p>\n
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