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When your website is online, it’s potentially vulnerable. To combat this, online services are utilized to mask or ‘hide’ the website’s origin IP address. This is handled by using services such as CloudFlare, Incapsula or Sucuri that offer a Website Application Firewall. These services are dependent by a large majority of individuals in today’s internet […]

What is a Website Application Firewall?

There are many different server environments out there that experience disruptions due to malicious attacks of varying natures. Above all, each of these applications can be susceptible to incidents such as ‘Layer 7’ or ‘Application Layer DDoS’ attacks. This is performed by attempting to saturate network or server resources with traffic floods. A WAF (website […]