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A systems administrator needs to implement a service to protect a web application from external attacks. The administrator must have session-based granular control of all HTTP traffic. Which of the fo

The correct answer is B. WAF. A web application firewall (WAF) is a security appliance that can be used to protect web applications from external attacks. It can be used to block malicious traffic, such as cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection attacks. WAFs can also be used to control session-based gra

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Question

A systems administrator needs to implement a service to protect a web application from external attacks. The administrator must have session-based granular control of all HTTP traffic. Which of the following should the administrator configure?

Options

  • AIDS
  • BWAF
  • CDLP
  • DNAC

How the community answered

(29 responses)
  • B
    90% (26)
  • C
    7% (2)
  • D
    3% (1)

Explanation

A web application firewall (WAF) is a security appliance that can be used to protect web applications from external attacks. It can be used to block malicious traffic, such as cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection attacks. WAFs can also be used to control session-based granularity of all HTTP traffic.

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#WAF#web application firewall#HTTP session control#application security

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