Comments on: A Look At WPMU DEV’s Highly Optimized (free!) WAF https://wpmudev.com/blog/what-is-a-waf/ The WPMU DEV Blog provides tutorials, tips, resources and reviews to help out any WordPress user Sat, 24 Aug 2024 04:27:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Lucas Ondata Marketing https://wpmudev.com/blog/what-is-a-waf/#comment-182178 Sat, 24 Aug 2024 04:27:26 +0000 https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/?p=186704#comment-182178 This Web Application Firewall function is very interesting, it’s a shame that it only works with WPMU DEV’s own hosting, but it’s always good to have a hosting option with this functionality included…

]]> By: Mark Su https://wpmudev.com/blog/what-is-a-waf/#comment-180450 Sun, 13 Aug 2023 19:38:40 +0000 https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/?p=186704#comment-180450 In reply to Aaron.

Not in the near future, as that would be a huge undertaking to build and maintain. We would have to charge a good amount extra for that similar to Cloudflare/Sucuri/Stackpath.

We should look at stackpath and sucri for some similaries

]]> By: All2WP https://wpmudev.com/blog/what-is-a-waf/#comment-180449 Sun, 13 Aug 2023 19:37:41 +0000 https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/?p=186704#comment-180449 In reply to Kasia Swiderska.

Hi F404,

I just got another update. We use latest Comodo ruleset as a starting point and add our own modifications/optimizations on top of that.

Also those https://waf.comodo.com/doc/meta_comodo_apache.yaml are not firewall rules.

Sorry for the confusion on my side!

That is good news.

]]> By: Rick Crawshaw https://wpmudev.com/blog/what-is-a-waf/#comment-179444 Wed, 01 Feb 2023 22:37:58 +0000 https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/?p=186704#comment-179444 In reply to Mark Su.

Thanks Mark! We think so too! :)

]]> By: Mark Su https://wpmudev.com/blog/what-is-a-waf/#comment-179425 Tue, 31 Jan 2023 06:05:52 +0000 https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/?p=186704#comment-179425 We already maintain a set of rules that will identify unsafe traffic – but as mentioned above, admins can Allowlist (allow) or Blocklist (block) IP addresses and user agents as they see fit by filling out these fields.

This is a good feature.

]]> By: Rick Crawshaw https://wpmudev.com/blog/what-is-a-waf/#comment-178603 Tue, 13 Sep 2022 21:43:35 +0000 https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/?p=186704#comment-178603 In reply to Middlelab.

Ha thanks @Middlelab, glad you got a kick out of it!

]]> By: Middlelab https://wpmudev.com/blog/what-is-a-waf/#comment-178594 Tue, 13 Sep 2022 04:57:26 +0000 https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/?p=186704#comment-178594 “Standing guard between the internet and your web applications, all the while monitoring and filtering the HTTP traffic that wants to join your bumping party.”

Totally made me laugh!

]]> By: Dimitris https://wpmudev.com/blog/what-is-a-waf/#comment-174183 Sat, 09 May 2020 14:25:52 +0000 https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/?p=186704#comment-174183 In reply to aTz.

WAF doesn’t provide any DDOS protection in general. You can use Cloudflare for that. ;)

Thank you,
Dimitris

]]> By: Dimitris https://wpmudev.com/blog/what-is-a-waf/#comment-174182 Sat, 09 May 2020 14:24:55 +0000 https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/?p=186704#comment-174182 In reply to aTz.

You shouldn’t be having any issues with that. In case there’s any issue where WAF is involving, feel free to contact our support team though. :)

Thank you,
Dimitris

]]> By: aTz https://wpmudev.com/blog/what-is-a-waf/#comment-174181 Sat, 09 May 2020 11:53:17 +0000 https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/?p=186704#comment-174181 In reply to aTz.

I forgot to ask this one:
Does this also provide DDOS protection?

If not, what would you suggest we use for that alongside your WAF?

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