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Azure Networking Cookbook, Second Edition - Second Edition

You're reading from  Azure Networking Cookbook, Second Edition - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Dec 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800563759
Pages 298 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Author (1):
Mustafa Toroman Mustafa Toroman
Profile icon Mustafa Toroman

Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface 1. Azure Virtual Network 2. Virtual machine networking 3. Network Security Groups 4. Managing IP addresses 5. Local and virtual network gateways 6. DNS and routing 7. Azure Firewall 8. Creating hybrid connections 9. Connecting to resources securely 10. Load balancers 11. Traffic Manager 12. Azure Application Gateway and Azure WAF 13. Azure Front Door and Azure CDN Index

Configuring a Web Application Firewall (WAF)

WAF is an additional setting for the application gateway. It's used to increase the security of applications behind the application gateway, and it also provides centralized protection.

Getting ready

To enable a WAF, we must set the application gateway to the WAF tier. To do so, we must do the following:

  1. In the Application gateway pane, go to Web application firewall, under Settings. Change the Tier selection from Standard V2 to WAF V2 and select Save:
    Changing Web application firewall tier from Standard V2 to WAF V2

Figure 12.23: Setting the application gateway to the WAF V2 tier

How to do it...

After the application gateway is set to WAF, we can enable and set the firewall rules. To do so, we must do the following:

  1. In the Application gateway pane, go to Web application firewall, under Settings, and enable Firewall status. After we set Firewall status to Enabled, a new set of options will appear:
    Setting Firewall status to Enabled in the Web application firewall pane

    Figure 12.24: Enabling a WAF for our application gateway

  2. We must...
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