WAF makes it easier for you to handle web security risks.
HTTP/HTTPS Service Protection
WAF keeps applications stable and secure. It examines HTTP and HTTPS requests to detect and block attacks, such as Structure Query Language (SQL) injections, cross-site scripting (XSS), web shell upload, command or code injections, file inclusion, sensitive file access, third-party vulnerability exploits, CC attacks, malicious crawlers, and cross-site request forgery (CSRF).
WebSocket/WebSockets
WAF supports the WebSocket/WebSockets protocol, which is enabled by default.
Basic Web Protection
With an extensive preset reputation database, WAF defends against Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) top 10 threats, malicious scanners, IP addresses, web shells, and other threats.
- All-around protection
WAF detects and blocks varied attacks, such as SQL injection, XSS, remote overflow vulnerabilities, file inclusions, Bash vulnerabilities, directory (path) traversal attacks, sensitive file access, command and code injections, web shells, backdoors, malicious HTTP requests, and third-party vulnerability exploits.
- Precise identification
- WAF uses built-in semantic analysis engine and regex engine and supports configuring of blacklist/whitelist rules, which reduces false positives.
- WAF supports anti-escape and automatic restoration of common codes, which improves the capability of recognizing deformation web attacks.
WAF can decode the following types of code: url_encode, Unicode, XML, OCT, hexadecimal, HTML escape, and base64 code, case confusion, JavaScript, shell, and PHP concatenation confusion
CC Attack Prevention
You can customize a CC attack protection rule to restrict access to a specific URL on your website based on an IP address, cookie, or Referer, mitigating CC attacks. Protective actions of CC attack protection rules include Verification code, Block, Dynamically block, and Log only.
GUI-based Security Data
WAF provides a GUI-based interface for you to monitor attack information and event logs in real time.
- Centralized policy configuration
On the WAF console, you can configure policies applicable to multiple protected domain names in a centralized manner so that the policies can be quickly delivered and take effect.
- Traffic and event statistics
WAF displays the number of requests, the number and types of security events, and log information in real time.
Non-Standard Ports
WAF can protect standard ports, such as 80 and 443 and a wide range of non-standard ports.
Port Category |
HTTP Protocol |
HTTPS Protocol |
Port Limit |
|---|---|---|---|
Standard ports |
80 |
443 |
Unlimited |
Non-standard ports (182 in total) |
9945, 9770, 81, 82, 83, 84, 88, 89, 800, 808, 1000, 1090, 3128, 3333, 3501, 3601, 4444, 5000, 5222, 5555, 5601, 6001, 6666, 6788, 6789, 6842, 6868, 7000, 7001, 7002, 7003, 7004, 7005, 7006, 7009, 7010, 7011, 7012, 7013, 7014, 7015, 7016, 7018, 7019, 7020, 7021, 7022, 7023, 7024, 7025, 7026, 7070, 7081, 7082, 7083, 7088, 7097, 7777, 7800, 7979, 8000, 8001, 8002, 8003, 8008, 8009, 8010, 8020, 8021, 8022, 8025, 8026, 8077, 8078, 8080, 8085, 8086, 8087, 8088, 8089, 8090, 8091, 8092, 8093, 8094, 8095, 8096, 8097, 8098, 8106, 8118, 8181, 8334, 8336, 8800, 8686, 8888, 8889, 8989, 8999, 9000, 9001, 9002, 9003, 9080, 9200, 9802, 10000, 10001, 10080, 12601, 86, 9021, 9023, 9027, 9037, 9081, 9082, 9201, 9205, 9207, 9208, 9209, 9210, 9211, 9212, 9213, 48800, 87, 97, 7510, 9180, 9898, 9908, 9916, 9918, 9919, 9928, 9929, 9939, 28080, 33702, 8011, 8012, 8013, 8014, 8015, 8016, 8017, and 8070 |
8750, 8445, 18010, 4443, 5443, 6443, 7443, 8081, 8082, 8083, 8084, 8443, 8843, 9443, 8553, 8663, 9553, 9663, 18110, 18381, 18980, 28443, 18443, 8033, 18000, 19000, 7072, 7073, 8803, 8804, 8805, and 9999 |
Unlimited |
Precise Protection
Support precise logic- and parameter-based access control policies.
- A variety of parameter conditions
Set conditions with combinations of common HTTP parameters, such as IP, URL, Referer, User Agent, Params, and Header.
- Abundant logical conditions
WAF blocks or allows traffic based on logical conditions, such as "Include", "Exclude", "Equal to", "Not equal to", "Prefix is", and "Prefix is not."
Malicious Scanner and Crawler Prevention
Blocks web page crawling with user-defined scanner and crawler rules. This feature improves protection accuracy.
IP Address Blacklist and Whitelist
This function allows you to blacklist or whitelist IP addresses or an IP address range to improve defense accuracy.
Known Attack Source
- If WAF blocks a malicious request by IP address, Cookie, or Params, you can configure a known attack source rule to let WAF automatically block all requests from the attack source for a blocking duration set in the known attack source rule.
- Known attack source rules can be set based on attacks blocked against the basic web protection, precise access protection, and blacklist and whitelist rules.
Connection Protection
If a large number of 502 Bad Gateway and 504 Gateway Timeout errors are detected, you can enable WAF breakdown protection and connection protection to let WAF suspend your website and protect your origin servers from being crashed. When the 502/504 error requests and pending URL requests reach the thresholds you configure, WAF enables corresponding protection for your website.
Configuring Connection Timeout
- The default timeout duration for connections between a browser and WAF is 120 seconds, which cannot be manually set.
- The default timeout duration for connections between WAF and your origin server is 60 seconds. You can customize a timeout duration.
In the Basic Information area on the website information page, enable Timeout Settings. Then, click
next to WAF-to-Server Connection Timeout, Read Timeout, and Write Timeout, modify settings one by one, and click 
to save.
Geolocation Access Control
You can allow some web requests and block others based on the geographical locations of IP addresses that the requests originate from.
Web Page Tampering Prevention
You can configure cache for static web pages. When a user accesses a web page, the system returns a cached page to the user and randomly checks whether the page is tampered with.
Anti-Crawler Protection
WAF dynamically analyzes your website service models and accurately identifies crawler behavior based on data risk control and bot identification systems.
Global Protection Whitelist (Formerly False Alarm Masking)
This function enables you to ignore certain attack detection rules for specific requests.
Data Masking
WAF masks sensitive information, such as usernames and passwords, in the event log.
Information Leakage Prevention
WAF prevents your sensitive information from being disclosed on web pages, such as ID numbers, phone numbers, and email addresses.
Reliable
WAF can be deployed on multiple clusters in multiple regions based on the load balancing principle. This can prevent single point of failures (SPOFs) and ensure online smooth capacity expansion, maximizing service stability.
Event Management
- WAF allows you to view and handle false alarms for blocked or logged events.
- You can download events data over the past five days.