From the course: Cloud Computing: Understanding Networking
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Security services: Web app firewalls and DDoS protection
From the course: Cloud Computing: Understanding Networking
Security services: Web app firewalls and DDoS protection
- [Instructor] Let's look at an example of just two useful security services. This includes Web Application Firewalls, or WAFs, and DDoS Protection, meaning protection from specific kinds of attacks called Distributed Denial of Service attacks. A WAF is a cloud network security service that provides monitoring, filtering, and the ability to block selected HTTP requests and responses. WAF is able to do this by inspecting HTTP requests and responses to detect issues with those actions and protect the web application. Issues it looks for include SQL injection or cross-site scripting, just to name a few. SQL or Structured Query Language injection is a type of cyber attack that allows hackers to execute malicious SQL queries. This can result in destroying data or allowing access to data they are not authorized to see. Cross-site scripting enables attackers to inject malicious scripts into webpages. This means that they can change what the webpage displays. DDoS Protection means taking…
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