This topic describes what you can get from Alibaba Cloud WAF.
More than 10 years of web security experience
- Built from over a decade’s worth of web security experience from Alibaba Group involving successful online businesses in China, such as Taobao, Tmall, and Alipay.
- Professional security team consisting of security experts from around the globe.
- Resists existing OWASP known threats, and updates for the latest vulnerabilities.
HTTP flood mitigation and bot protection
- Effective mitigation of HTTP and HTTPS floods.
- Prevents web crawlers and other bots from consuming website’s resources.
- Detects and blocks suspicious requests that may cause negative impacts on your server, such as bandwidth consumption, database/SMS/API interface exhaustion, increased latency, or even a breakdown.
- Customizable rules for varying business scenarios.
Big data ability
- Alibaba Cloud hosts more than 37% of China-based websites.
- Alibaba Cloud mitigates more than 800 million attacks every day.
- Alibaba Cloud maintains the most popular accessed IP database in China.
- Numerous case studies on the patterns, methods, and signatures of the popular web attacks.
- Analysis through the Alibaba Cloud big data platform in combination with the latest technologies.
Easy and reliable
- Setup and activation within 5 minutes.
- No hardware or software installation, or router and switch configuration.
- Works as a defense cluster to avoid single point failure and redundancy.
- Excellent processing ability.