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Arbor Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF)

NETSCOUT Arbor Cloud WAF is a cloud-based web application protection service that protects against threats that target the application layer.

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Overview

Cloud-Based WAF Solutions for Customer-Facing and Mission-Critical Applications

Arbor Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) equips your company with adaptable security features to counteract the most significant network and application-layer threats, including SQL injection, XSS, and DDoS attacks.

Its always-on security posture, combined with cloud-based scalability, ensures comprehensive protection against the OWASP Top 10 risks along with virtual patching and bot management, allowing you to effectively shield your critical and customer-facing applications from emerging threats.

Location and Infrastructure Agnostic

Get the flexibility and freedom you need to scale effectively wherever your applications are hosted and reduce costs with Arbor Cloud WAF.

Layered Protection

Defend critical applications with even the most complex workflows and prevent the most common threats that target the application layer, such as SQLi, XSS, and CSRF.

Augment Your on-Prem WAF

Augment the effectiveness of your existing on-prem WAF investment by filtering out bad traffic from the public cloud before it reaches your network so you can reduce the overall traffic load on your on-prem devices.

Secure Control

Secure online storage for your digital certificates to protect your applications even when using encrypted payloads keeps your keys from falling into the wrong hands.

The Best Application-Layer Security for Your Business

As a cloud-based WAF solution, Arbor Cloud WAF protects your applications from data breaches, defacements, malicious bots, and other web application-layer attacks. By protecting your applications no matter where they are hosted, Arbor Cloud WAF simplifies your operations through consistently configured rules with no provider restrictions or hardware requirements.

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Features

Adaptable Security & Comprehensive Protection

Bot Management

Detect and defend against malicious bots with Arbor Cloud WAF to ensure you know who or what is interacting with your online presence.

Bot Management

Detect and defend against malicious bots with Arbor Cloud WAF to ensure you know who or what is interacting with your online presence.

Learning Mode

Gain an understanding of the traffic passing through Arbor Cloud WAF, with recommendations on what relaxation rule, if any, should be applied. You get traffic profiles that can help you to delineate between true anomalous behavior, which you might want to block, and an application that features an unusual pattern but is still considered legitimate.

Administration On-Line Portal

Manage all of your web security needs from one place, regardless of where your applications are hosted, with an easy-to-use online portal. You can make configuration changes instantly, and reporting/logging capabilities allow you to analyze the effectiveness of your website and application security.

Customizable Signatures

Create your own rules in a variety of formats with the Arbor Cloud WAF policy editor. Plus, you have the option to continuously add new threat signatures for newly disclosed CVEs and common weakness classes, including vulnerabilities affecting popular CMS platforms.