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WAF SQL evasion using HPF technique

I was reading an article on WAF evasion techniques http://www.slideshare.net/devteev/methods-to-bypass-a-web-application-firewall-eng. The article discuss two techniques HPP (HTTP parameter ...
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Writing application specfic rules for WAF?

I was reading an article on "Protocol-Level Evasion of Web Application Firewalls" and the article insist on writing application specific rules in this manner: <Location /index.php> ...
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Testing Web Application Firewall Configuration (ModSecurity)

What is the best way of testing my Firewall configuration as i have deployed the Core Rule set provided by the OWASP. But my rule configuration was giving me too many false positives which i resolved ...
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Secure Traffic model for Web application Protection

Web Application Firewalls relies on negative and positive security traffic rules to protect web application from being exploit. My question is that is their any other web traffic modelling technique ...
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Anomaly based web application Firewall

How practical are anomaly based web application firewall in mitigating web based attacks ? Which types of threats do they mitigate against and which don't they? Are their any practical implementation ...
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IDS/WAF scenario for 2 web servers

I'm running 2 web servers on 2 different physical hosts at home. They handle both HTTP and HTTPS traffic. I want to protect against web application attacks, but don't want to spend money for ...
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Web Application Firewall Rules

For Network Layer Firewalls we have different sort of redundancy and consistency checks like rule shadowing, that can impact the performance of firewall. Do similar kind of checks can be applied on ...
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Web Application Firewall Rule Optimization

Following are the two Rules taken from ModSecurity CRS core Ruleset. These two rules are base Rules for XSS attacks. If we look at these two rules their variables and actions are same what they differ ...
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Working of WAF/IDS/IPS payload normalization schemes?

I want to know how WAF/IDS/IPS deals with Payload Transformations. Such payload transformations may be base64Encode html EntityDecode url Encode Remove whitespaces I want to know how WAF/IDS/IPS ...
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Is there a web application firewall equivalent of virustotal?

I'm wondering if there is a web application firewall (WAF) equivalent of VirusTotal? A site where I can throw for example injection strings, exploits or xss, and it will tell me what the default ...
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What is a Web Application Firewall?

What is a Web Application Firewall (WAF) and what are some of the things to look for in an effective one? Why would you deploy a WAF instead of just an IPS?