Mitigating Common Web Application Attack Vectors Using AWS WAF

For your initial task, you will configure AWS WAF to protect your site from common attacks such as SQL injection and cross site scripting. AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect your web applications from common web exploits that could affect application availability, compromise security or consume excessive resources.

Phases in the Perimeter Layer round

To begin the module, proceed to the Assess phase below.

  1. Assess
  2. Remediate
  3. Verify