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Web Application Firewall

Product overview

Applicable scenarios

BytePlus WAF (Web Application Firewall) can flexibly adapt to different business scenarios to ensure your business security. This article introduces the typical application scenarios of WAF.

Data leakage prevention

Hacking into website databases is a common attack behavior. Hackers often use SQL injection, web Trojans, and other methods to obtain the core data and sensitive information of the website, which may pose serious risks and losses to enterprises. WAF detects and intercepts potential attack traffic through multi-dimensional precision detection technologies, such as regular expressions, whitelist and blacklist filtering, AI intelligent analysis, etc. This helps enterprises identify and defend against various potential security threats, protecting their data and sensitive information from being stolen or tampered with by hackers.

CC attack protection

Hackers send a large number of malicious CC requests through proxy servers, occupying website service resources and preventing normal users from accessing the services. WAF can accurately identify CC attack traffic to ensure stable operation of the business. When WAF detects a large number of duplicate requests or abnormal request patterns, it automatically triggers the set protection rules, such as temporarily banning IP addresses, limiting access rates, or requiring users to undergo human verification, etc. Additionally, after the CC intelligent protection mode is activated, WAF will autonomously learn the characteristics of business traffic and form asset profiles, providing customized intelligent protection strategies for your business and dynamically adjusting them according to business conditions.

Web scraping and bot prevention

WAF plays an important role in preventing malicious web scraping and traffic manipulation. On the one hand, the built-in managed rules can accurately identify the behaviors of crawlers and scanners, allowing for targeted interception. On the other hand, you can also customize rules, such as setting request frequency limits, detecting and intercepting abnormal request behaviors and request traffic. BytePlus WAF integrates mechanisms such as human verification, JS challenges, and proof of work to effectively prevent malicious crawlers from performing large-scale data scraping or traffic manipulation on websites or applications, avoiding commercial losses for website operators.

Prevent business cheating

Hackers or competitors may attack sensitive business interfaces using automated tools, such as malicious registrations, activity cheating, and taking advantage of promotions. The API protection features provided by WAF help you detect and prevent malicious automated operations by verifying, detecting, and analyzing the behavior of request traffic to sensitive API interfaces, thereby preventing various types of business cheating and protecting your business interests.

Last updated: 2025.06.30 16:13:00