AWS Security Blog

Tag: AWS Web Application Firewall

Using AWS security services to protect against, detect, and respond to the Log4j vulnerability

April 21, 2022: The blog post has been updated to include information on the updated version of the hotpatch. See this security advisory for more details. Overview In this post we will provide guidance to help customers who are responding to the recently disclosed log4j vulnerability. This covers what you can do to limit the […]

Deploying defense in depth using AWS Managed Rules for AWS WAF (part 2)

In this post, I show you how to use recent enhancements in AWS WAF to manage a multi-layer web application security enforcement policy. These enhancements will help you to maintain and deploy web application firewall configurations across deployment stages and across different types of applications. In part 1 of this post I describe the technologies […]

Defense in depth using AWS Managed Rules for AWS WAF (part 1)

In this post, I discuss how you can use recent enhancements in AWS WAF to manage a multi-layer web application security enforcement policy. These enhancements will help you to maintain and deploy web application firewall configurations across deployment stages and across different types of applications. The post is in two parts. This first part describes […]