Allesta Web Application Firewall offers real-time detection and prevention of cyber attacks, ensuring proactive application level protection.
One of the key benefits of using Allesta is that it includes three modules to protect your server. These modules are the Allesta Firewall Module, Allesta HTTP Filtering Module, and the Allesta Connection Limiting Module. By utilizing all three modules, you can rest assured that your web applications are fully protected against a variety of attacks.
The Allesta Firewall Module is a software firewall, featuring stateful packet filtering. This means that detailed rule definition is used to perform stateful inspection and protocol inspection of all outgoing and incoming Internet traffic. Rules can be defined between interfaces and / or IP addresses.
The Allesta HTTP Filtering module includes complete filtering methods that help identify legitimate and illegitimate requests and to distinguish between them. Some of the filtering methods used in Allesta include HTTP method, HTTP version, URL length, Header length, Header size, Presence or absence of a particular header, Header contents, File type, General POST size, General POST contents, POST & GET payloads and query parameters, Parameter type, Parameter value, Parameter length, Parameter case, Parameter in the message body, Character set (negative regular expressions), RFC compliance (header, request, and cookie), Invalid path traversal (../), Restricted methods (PUT, DELETE), and much more.
The Allesta Connection Limiting module is an application level connection limiting service. It counts connections from remote address to local addresses and blocks unwanted traffic by using predefined connection limiting rules. It's possible to stop DDOS attacks through the use of an Allesta Connection Limiting module. This module provides clean Web traffic, improved management of network traffic loads, and lowers cost by optimizing speed and performance of your public site while protecting against DDoS, virus, and other malicious traffic. Overall, Allesta is an excellent choice for web application protection that's easy to use and highly effective.
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