ModSecurity-nginx VS lua-resty-waf

Compare ModSecurity-nginx vs lua-resty-waf and see what are their differences.

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ModSecurity-nginx lua-resty-waf
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1,420 1,251
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5.7 0.0
1 day ago 3 months ago
Perl Perl
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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ModSecurity-nginx

Posts with mentions or reviews of ModSecurity-nginx. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-24.

lua-resty-waf

Posts with mentions or reviews of lua-resty-waf. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-27.
  • Differences beetwen lua-resty-waf and NGINX proxy manager?
    2 projects | /r/nginx | 27 Apr 2021
    I just learned about about https://github.com/p0pr0ck5/lua-resty-waf while looking into the topic how to secure my reverse proxy server, besides that I only read that this is pretty much NGINX security enhanced with some extra plugins and performance tweaks, other than that don't know nothing about it.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ModSecurity-nginx and lua-resty-waf you can also consider the following projects:

nginx-waf - Nginx + ModSecurity WAF

ModSecurity - ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx that is developed by Trustwave's SpiderLabs. It has a robust event-based programming language which provides protection from a range of attacks against web applications and allows for HTTP traffic monitoring, logging and real-time analysis. With over 10,000 deployments world-wide, ModSecurity is the most widely deployed WAF in existence.

Nginx Proxy Manager - Docker container for managing Nginx proxy hosts with a simple, powerful interface

coraza - OWASP Coraza WAF is a golang modsecurity compatible web application firewall library

BunkerWeb - 🛡️ Make your web services secure by default !

modsecurity-spoa - HAProxy agent for ModSecurity web application firewall

naxsi - NAXSI is an open-source, high performance, low rules maintenance WAF for NGINX

lua-resty-mlcache - Layered caching library for OpenResty

coreruleset - OWASP CRS (Official Repository)

edge-computing-resty - a simple edge computing platform using nginx, lua and rails