WAFs protect your web applications from OWASP Top 10 attacks and more. Here's how UAE businesses should deploy and configure web application firewalls.
Web application firewalls protect your customer-facing applications, portals, and APIs from attacks that traditional network firewalls can't detect. For UAE businesses running e-commerce platforms, customer portals, and government services, a WAF is essential defense against SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and other OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities.
WAF Deployment Options
Cloud-based WAFs (AWS WAF, Azure WAF, Cloudflare WAF) integrate with your CDN and cloud infrastructure, offering ease of deployment and automatic scaling. On-premises WAFs (F5, Imperva) provide more control for organizations with strict data inspection requirements. Many UAE organizations use cloud WAFs for public applications and on-premises WAFs for internal systems.
Configuration Best Practices
Start in detection mode to understand your application's traffic patterns before blocking. Build custom rules based on your specific application logic — generic rules alone miss application-specific vulnerabilities. Implement rate limiting to prevent brute force and DDoS attacks. Configure geo-blocking if your application only serves specific regions.
WAF and API Security
Modern WAFs must protect APIs as well as traditional web applications. Configure API-specific protections: schema validation (reject requests that don't match your API specification), payload inspection, and bot detection. As UAE businesses expose more APIs for mobile apps and partner integrations, API security through WAF becomes increasingly critical.
Bayden configures and manages web application firewalls for UAE organizations, ensuring your web applications and APIs are protected against the attack patterns we observe targeting the UAE market.
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