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by brodock 1355 days ago
WAF is mandatory in some certifications.
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Yes but so safe lots of silly controls.

The best part of a waf is the ability to add custom rules at runtime which can assist in blocking known vulnerabilities until they are remediated correctly.

I don’t think generic sql or XSS injection rules are at all effective not stop many real world attacks. I’ve also seen wafs create both an availability failure point, dos choke point, and be the most vulnerable product in the tool chain (see F5 code exec vulns).