Enable domain-level WAF protection

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A cloud-native gateway integrates with Web Application Firewall (WAF) 3.0 to provide domain-level security protection. When you enable domain-level WAF protection for a domain, WAF inspects all traffic to that domain regardless of which route handles the request. This provides broader coverage than route-level WAF protection, which applies only to a specific route.

Enable domain-level WAF protection for a domain

  1. Log on to the MSE console. In the left-side navigation pane, choose Cloud-native Gateway.

  2. On the Gateways page, click the name of the target gateway.

  3. In the left-side navigation pane of the gateway details page, choose Routes. Click the Domain tab.

  4. Find the target domain. In the WAF Protection column, click Enable Domain-Level WAF Protection.

  5. In the confirmation dialog box, click OK.

After you enable domain-level WAF protection, the WAF Protection column displays Domain-Level WAF Protection Enabled and a link to Go to the WAF console to configure protection rules

Default protections after enablement

After you enable domain-level WAF protection, WAF detects and filters all access traffic to the domain. The following two protection features are enabled by default:

Feature

Protection scope

Protection rules engine

Common web attacks: SQL injections, cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, and webshell uploads

HTTP flood protection

HTTP flood attacks

All other WAF features are disabled by default. To enable additional protection features or configure custom protection rules, see Overview.

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