Web Application Firewalls: A Practical Approach

by John Stauffacher

In Web Application A Practical Approach , John Stauffacher shares his expertise and the methods he has used for optimizing Web application firewalls throughout his career. This book focuses on a general methodology and then delves into vendor specifics for firewalls such as F5 ASM, Imperva, and the open source tool ModSecurity. Web Application Firewalls provides you with everything you need to understand and properly deploy a Web application firewall (WAF). You'll learn basic methodology and concepts, including the fundamentals of authentication, flows, URLs, cookies, assets, signatures, DDOS mitigation, and Web services inspection. Then, you'll learn about the WAF Lifecycle methodology, including onboarding the application, policy creation, testing, deployment, and verification. The book also offers hands-on product-specific tutorials on popular WAFs. You'll have everything you need to optimize your Web application firewall against any security threat.

224 pages, Paperback

First published November 29, 2015