AWS Web Application Firewall enhances rate-based rules to support request headers & composite keys

Опубликовано 10 августа 2023, 20:40

AWS WAF supports additional request parameters for rate-based rules, including cookies and other HTTP headers. Customers cacreate composite keys based on up to 5 request parameters, providing more granular options for managing and securing web application traffic. With these capabilities, customers can better identify and block malicious traffic patterns while minimizing the impact on legitimate users.

Customers could already use WAF rate-based rules to automatically block requests from IP addresses that make large numbers of requests within a short period of time until the rate of requests falls below a customer-defined threshold. As attackers have become more sophisticated, they are increasingly using techniques that bypass IP-based rate limiting defenses, such as using multiple IP addresses or distributing attacks across a large number of devices. Now, WAF customers can aggregate requests by combining IP addresses with other request parameters (“keys”). Supported keys include cookies and other request headers, query strings or query arguments, cookies, label namespaces, and HTTP methods. By combining multiple request parameters into a single composite key, customers can detect and mitigate potential threats with higher accuracy. Customers can further refine rate-based rules by using WAF match conditions, allowing customers to limit the scope of inspection to specific URLs of their website or to traffic coming from specific referrers.

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