It is important to secure your server applications from remote attacks and visitors of your web services from becoming a victim of drive-by downloads (malicious software). This article describes a technique to proactively enhance the security of your web site.
ModSecurity is a so-called Web Application Firewall (WAF) implemented as a Apache module. So every application served by an Apache Server frontend may gain from enhanced security features introduced by utilizing ModSecurity.
ModSecurity is a number one choice when you are looking for solutions to protect against zero-day attacks. Additionally ModSecurity provides a number of features to protect against Cross Site Scripting vulnerabilities and it may help to protect attackers from delivering malicious drive-by downloads to site visitors.
Due to the powerful features of ModSecurity including to inspect, modify, intercept and log the complete communication flow you should seriously consider to add ModSecurity to your security portfolio.
If you are required to run ModSecurity you may receive professional support from http://support.linux-support.com to set-up, operate and monitor your servers.
The magazine at Linux-Support.com will come up with additional articles regarding ModSecurity because security related issues based on server voluntiries are increasing with breathtakingly pace. Stay tuned!
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