Analytical study of open source WAF for web application protection

Web Security

Application protection is a valuable security layer to protect against a number of application layer security threats which is usually not protected by a typical network layer intrusion detection system. The hackers will attack the Web Application using the methods like SQL injection attacks, Cross Site Scripting attacks, Buffer Overflow attacks, Cookie poisoning ,Forceful browsing, Directory traversal attacks and some known and unknown attacks. This paper describe the an analytical study of open source web application firewall for web application protection and also present comparative study of existing open source web application firewall to protect web application form various web attacks like SQL injection attacks, Cross Site Scripting attacks, Buffer Overflow attacks, Cookie poisoning ,Forceful browsing, Directory traversal attacks and some known and unknown attacks.

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