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Over the past couple of years, security has become a crucial concern for most companies. Fortunately, there are many services available to help you improve the overall security of your AWS environment. AWS Web Application Firewall is a firewall that helps you to protect your web application server against a range of Internet threats.


➤ 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐖𝐞𝐛 𝐀𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬


➥𝐃𝐃𝐨𝐒 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤
Attackers overload an application by sending bulk requests to the web servers. This slows
down the application and significantly hurts the value of a brand.


➥𝐒𝐐𝐋 𝐢𝐧𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬
The attacker can run malicious SQL queries on web applications using SQL-based databases.


➥𝐂𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬-𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠
If your application is vulnerable to cross-site scripting then the attacker can run or inject malicious scripts, generally in the form of a browser-side script.


➤ 𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐖𝐒 𝐖𝐞𝐛 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐥
➥ Integrated role-based access control across all AWS services (IAM)
➥ Increased protection against web attacks
➥ Ease of deployment and maintenance
➥ Flexible integration with other AWS services
➥ AWS WAF also protect websites not hosted on AWS
➥ Well architected patterns/guidance


➤ 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐀𝐖𝐒 𝐖𝐀𝐅
➥ Since AWS WAF is integrated with AWS CloudFront – which supports custom origins outside of AWS – it can even be used to protect websites not hosted on AWS.
➥ You can configure custom error pages.
➥ Real-time metrics can be monitored from CloudWatch.
➥ AWS WAF can inspect HTTPS traffic.


Where we explain:
01:13 = Agenda
01:18 = Introduction to AWS Web Application Firewall
07:29 = Launch 2 webservers in 2 different Availability Zones
12:32 = Create Application Load Balancer
16:55 = Create IP set
20:30 = Create a web Access Control List
26:50 = Test the working of WAF
31:36 = Learning path for AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate(SAA-C02)
32:32 = FREE Class
32:49 = Registration link for FREE Class

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