Tag: AWS WAF

In November 2022, AWS introduced support for granular geographic (geo) match conditions in AWS WAF. This blog post demonstrates how you can use this new feature to customize your AWS WAF implementation and improve the security posture of your protected application. AWS WAF provides inline inspection of inbound traffic at the application layer. You can […]

January 24, 2023: This post was republished to update the code, architecture, and narrative. September 9, 2021: The Amazon service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. In this post, we’ll show you how to deploy a solution in your Amazon Web Services (AWS) account that will provide a fully automated dashboard for […]

In Part 1 of this two-part series, we shared an overview of some of the most important 2021 Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security service and feature launches. In this follow-up, we’ll dive deep into additional launches that are important for security professionals to be aware of and understand across all AWS services. There have already […]

Introduction A few years ago at Sydney Summit, I had an excellent question from one of our attendees. She asked me to help her design a cost-effective, reliable, and not overcomplicated solution for protection against simple bots for her web-facing resources on Amazon Web Services (AWS). I remember the occasion because with the release of […]

This blog post shows you how to use the machine learning capabilities of Amazon OpenSearch Service to detect and visualize anomalies in AWS WAF logs. AWS WAF logs are streamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service using Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. Kinesis Data Firehose invokes an AWS Lambda function to transform incoming source data and deliver the […]

AWS Managed Rules for AWS WAF provides a group of rules created by AWS that can be used help protect you against common application vulnerabilities and other unwanted access to your systems without having to write your own rules. AWS Threat Research Team updates AWS Managed Rules to respond to an ever-changing threat landscape in order […]

When your APIs are exposed on the internet, they naturally face unpredictable traffic. AWS WAF helps protect your application’s API against common web exploits, such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting. In this blog post, you’ll learn how to automatically detect anomalies in the AWS WAF metrics to improve your visibility into AWS WAF activity, […]

In this post, we explain what the three most important AWS WAF rate-based rules are for proactively protecting your web applications against common HTTP flood events, and how to implement these rules. We share what the Shield Response Team (SRT) has learned from helping customers respond to HTTP floods and show how all AWS WAF […]

Note: This blog post describes how to automatically update AWS WAF IP sets with the most recent AWS IP ranges for AWS services. This related blog post describes how to perform a similar update for Amazon CloudFront IP ranges that are used in VPC Security Groups. You can use AWS Managed Rules for AWS WAF […]

September 21, 2021: The example use case for request tagging with ALB listener rules was removed, since it doesn’t apply to every case. In March 2021, AWS introduced support for custom responses and request header insertion with AWS WAF. This blog post will demonstrate how you can use these new features to customize your AWS […]