Web Application Firewall

Utilizing extensive expertise acquired over 20 years in processing vast datasets and countering cyber threats, has developed an advanced big security data and threat intelligence platform. This platform hosts comprehensive information on various botnets, global proxies, high anonymity proxies, Tor proxies, billions of malicious IPs, vulnerabilities, and crawlers. Moreover, it includes substantial volumes of internet attack traceability and domain name attack data.

By harnessing robust big data-driven threat intelligence capabilities, the Web Application Firewall (WAF) promptly detects both known and unknown internet-based attacks and threats. This enables protected users to exchange threat intelligence, swiftly identify intrusions into web businesses, and dynamically adjust threat protection strategies to mitigate a wide range of zero-day attacks and intrusions orchestrated by cyber criminals.

The Web Application Firewall (WAF) features an advanced proprietary module for rules-based bot and crawler management, distinguishing between benign and malicious entities and employing tailored management strategies. This functionality allows for the allowance of traffic from legitimate search engine bots while blocking malicious data-scraping crawlers. By doing so, it mitigates resource depletion, information disclosure, and competitive interference caused by malicious bots and crawlers, while ensuring the uninterrupted operation of legitimate entities such as search engine bots and advertising programs.

WAF offers robust support for identifying various known bot and crawler behaviors, encompassing activities such as feed retrieval, advertising, screenshot capture, search engine indexing, website monitoring, link analysis, utility crawling, vulnerability scanning, malware detection, web crawling, and performance testing. Leveraging AI technology, it intelligently detects undisclosed and malicious crawler activities by modeling and learning from legitimate human access patterns and bot behaviors.

Furthermore, WAF allows for the customization of bot behavior identification rules based on factors such as referer attributes, user agent characteristics, request rates, parameters, paths, IP ranges, and more. Detailed graphical classification of bot behaviors and blocking actions provides valuable insights for informed management decisions. Additionally, administrators can configure flexible strategies for “monitoring,” “blocking,” and “allowing through” based on specific requirements and circumstances.

The Web Application Firewall (WAF) incorporates proven algorithms for countering CC (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks, adeptly filtering out spam access requests by intercepting numerous malicious requests at both layer-4 and layer-7 levels. This proactive approach effectively safeguards against CC attacks, preserves the integrity of business data against malicious crawling activities, and ensures the continuity of uninterrupted business access.

CC attacks are discerned based on access frequency and predefined criteria, enabling the activation of tailored strategies such as “access blocking” or “human-machine recognition.” Additionally, administrators have the flexibility to customize the duration of punitive measures as deemed necessary.

WAF delivers a streamlined experience for cloud-based web application firewall protection and management. Furthermore, it facilitates the adaptable configuration of defense strategies, ensuring effortless alignment with the security requirements of specialized businesses.

Tailored defense protocols: Enhanced web attack protection measures can be tailored through meticulous customization, leveraging parameters such as IPs, URL paths, referrers, and POST parameters.

Geographically targeted restriction: WAF provides extensive support for region-specific blocking, enabling the blacklisting of access requests originating from designated regions, such as specific provinces or countries.

Protection modes: Users have the option to select between “blocking mode” or “observation mode” based on the precise security demands of their business operations.

WAF leverages Alto Cloud’s infrastructure to ensure continuous availability of business traffic.

WAF clusters can be deployed across multiple regions, distributing their loads globally to prevent any single points of failure.

A highly resilient elastic scaling architecture is employed across nodes, facilitating swift migration and data restoration in the event of faults, while also enabling the scalable expansion of protection capabilities as needed.

Resource isolation is implemented to segregate protective cluster resources for different users, thereby mitigating any potential interaction among business protection services.