

CLONE X CROSS REFERENCE PATCH
With ModSecurity, applications can be patched from the outside, without touching the application source code (and even without any access to it), making your systems secure until a proper patch is applied to the application.Ī flexible rule engine sits in the heart of ModSecurity.

Time needed to patch application vulnerabilities often runs to weeks in many organisations. External patching (sometimes referred to as Virtual Patching) is about reducing the window of opportunity. Its rule language makes ModSecurity an ideal external patching tool. Therefore a positive security model works best with applications that are heavily used but rarely updated so that maintenance of the model is minimized.

This model requires knowledge of the web applications you are protecting. When a positive security model is deployed, only requests that are known to be valid are accepted, with everything else rejected. Requests with high anomaly scores are either logged or rejected altogether. It keeps anomaly scores for each request, IP addresses, application sessions, and user accounts. A negative security model monitors requests for anomalies, unusual behaviour, and common web application attacks. There are three commonly used approaches: ModSecurity can also act immediately to prevent attacks from reaching your web applications. In this case, ModSecurity operates as a web intrusion detection tool, allowing you to react to suspicious events that take place at your web systems. In addition to providing logging facilities, ModSecurity can monitor the HTTP traffic in real time in order to detect attacks. Real-Time Monitoring and Attack Detection As some of the request and/or response may contain sensitive data in certain fields, ModSecurity can be configured to mask these fields before they are written to the audit log. Its logging facilities also allow fine-grained decisions to be made about exactly what is logged and when, ensuring only the relevant data is recorded.
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ModSecurity makes full HTTP transaction logging possible, allowing complete requests and responses to be logged. Your adversaries know this, and that is why most attacks are now carried out via POST requests, rendering your systems blind. In particular, most are not capable of logging the request bodies. Web servers are typically well-equipped to log traffic in a form useful for marketing analyses, but fall short logging traffic to web applications. ModSecurity provides protection from a range of attacks against web applications and allows for HTTP traffic monitoring and real-time analysis with little or no changes to existing infrastructure. WAFs are deployed to establish an increased external security layer to detect and/or prevent attacks before they reach web applications. With over 70% of attacks now carried out over the web application level, organisations need all the help they can get in making their systems secure.

ModSecurity is a web application firewall (WAF).
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