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. (by owasp-modsecurity)

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ModSecurity reviews and mentions

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  • Anybody using Crowdsec?
    1 project | /r/unRAID | 4 Mar 2023
    First of all, if you have any experience with Traefik, I'd suggest you to do the reverse proxy stuff with it and install the Crowdsec instance along it. As I didn't have experience using Traefik I went with NPM but now I guess it would have been easier considering the research I had to do... Another reason is, I wanted to implement a geo block and/or another security layer by using ModSecurity (https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity ) besides Crowdsec too. Afaik Traefik has a plugin that integrates ModSecurity easily - unless NPM.
  • Has anyone tried this on Blackboard online exams??
    1 project | /r/Professors | 21 Feb 2023
    I don't know about Blackboard, but Moodle will allow quizzes to be run in popups that block most extensions from working; lockdown browsers will block such extensions; and, if you have access to the server, a modified firewall (e.g., ModSecurity) may\* allow blocking this and similar extensions.
  • Ask HN: What's a good open-source alternative to Cloudflare?
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Feb 2023
    > ModSecurity for WAF: https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity

    This might be of interest to some: https://www.modsecurity.org/

    > Trustwave is announcing the End-of-Life (EOL) of our support for ModSecurity effective July 1, 2024. We will then hand over the maintenance of ModSecurity code back to the open-source community.

    Probably not too big of a deal, though.

    Also, this might be useful: https://owasp.org/www-project-modsecurity-core-rule-set/

    Though there has been some critique of ModSecurity and that ruleset in the past, as something dated and with false positives.

    Anyone have any good alternatives?

  • WAF with reverse proxy
    2 projects | /r/unRAID | 9 Feb 2023
    Is there a reason no one hasn't made a Docker template for OWASP Coraza (https://github.com/corazawaf/coraza) or ModSecurity (https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity) for the use of a reverse proxy?
  • NGINX WAF alternatives: App Protect vs. ModSecurity vs. open-appsec
    4 projects | dev.to | 24 Nov 2022
    Since Nginx has different use cases, protecting your application depends on how and where you use it. It's recommended that you have a reliable WAF solution since they block most harmful requests in the first place. In this article, you'll compare three tools—ModSecurity, F5 Nginx App Protect, and open-appsec—based on their active development, advanced security features, and open source commitment to help you figure out which tool is right for you.
  • ModSecurity VS openappsec - a user suggested alternative
    2 projects | 11 Nov 2022
  • Please help me to identify Cons in my PHP-FPM setup
    1 project | /r/linuxadmin | 28 May 2022
  • What (software, open source) WAF are you using with (open source) Nginx?
    3 projects | /r/nginx | 26 May 2022
    I'm currently erring toward ModSecurity & the Nginx connector now that it's been de-Apache'd.
  • WordPress sites getting hacked ‘within seconds’ of TLS certificates being issued
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 May 2022
    Is anyone on HN doing WordPress administration? I recently 'inherited' a webshop built on WP/WooCommerce, and all the conflicting security advice in the WP space is making my head spin.

    There are a dozen competing 'security' plugins, with some saying 'you don't need any of them, WP is secure enough by default', and others saying 'you actually need ModSecurity [1] / Jeff Starr's nG firewall [2]'.

    The agency that (shoddily...) built the webshop installed Wordfence Free [3], so I've just kept that for now, though I feel it's kind of slow (but that might just be caused by the bottom-of-barrel performance of the shared webhost it's currently running on).

    [1] https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity

    [2] https://perishablepress.com/7g-firewall/

    [3] https://www.wordfence.com/

  • An actual secure selfhosted Reverse Proxy with cool stats?
    3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 19 Nov 2021
    By Web Firewall did you mean smth like this ?
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