Varnish Web Application Firewall 

The Varnish Web Application Firewall (WAF) lets you inspect your HTTP traffic and detect malicious requests at the edge before they reach your web application.
 
Firewall

Performance

The cache and ModSecurity-based VMOD WAF are 100% HTTP based, delivering a balance between performance and protection.

Simplicity

Making it easy to implement existing ModSecurity rules directly into your Varnish setup to get direct access to the OWASP Core Rule Set.

Configurable

Easily configured with almost unlimited flexibility using Varnish Configuration Language to let you set and adjust your own WAF security rules and policies.

 

Who should use WAF?

As automated threats become more sophisticated and cybersecurity sits firmly atop the list of threats to doing business, the Varnish WAF is an ideal protective measure for virtually any web application. It is particularly useful for:

 

  • Organizations using legacy web applications that can not be upgraded.
  • Businesses using CMSes of all sizes and types, including the world's most popular systems, such as WordPress, Joomla and Drupal. 
  • All security-aware organizations wanting the flexibility to set their own web application security rules.
 
 

Web Application Firewall Features

 
Varnish WAF gives you near endless flexibility for setting and adjusting your own WAF security rules.
Based on ModSecurity, which provides signature-based, real-time HTTP request and response analysis, it’s a tried and tested solution coupled with the speed and flexibility of Varnish. Leverage the OWASP core rule set directly in Varnish.
Varnish WAF protects your origin not only from heavy traffic, but also from malicious requests.
 
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