Comparison on Six Self-Hosted WAF

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on dev.to

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  1. SafeLine

    SafeLine is a self-hosted WAF(Web Application Firewall) / reverse proxy to protect your web apps from attacks and exploits.

    The SafeLine WAF has the best overall performance, with the fewest false positives and false negatives.

  2. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

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  3. coraza

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

    Coraza and ModSecurity have a high detection rate, but they are not adapted to reality scenarios, resulting in too many false positives.

  4. ModSecurity

    ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. 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.

    Coraza and ModSecurity have a high detection rate, but they are not adapted to reality scenarios, resulting in too many false positives.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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