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- Overview
- Get started
- Concepts
- Traffic detections
- Overview
- Attack score
- Malicious uploads
- Bot score
- Threat intelligence
- Custom rules
- Overview
- Create in the dashboard
- Create via API
- Create using Terraform
- Configure a rule with the Skip action
- Common use cases
- Allow traffic from IP addresses in allowlist only
- Allow traffic from search engine bots
- Allow traffic from specific countries only
- Block Microsoft Exchange Autodiscover requests
- Block requests by attack score
- Block traffic by geographical location
- Block traffic from specific countries
- Build a sequence rule within custom rules
- Challenge bad bots
- Configure token authentication
- Exempt partners from Hotlink Protection
- Issue challenge for admin user in JWT claim based on attack score
- Require a specific cookie
- Require known IP addresses in site admin area
- Require specific HTTP headers
- Require specific HTTP ports
- Stop R-U-Dead-Yet? (R.U.D.Y.) attacks
- Update custom rules for customers or partners
- Custom rulesets
- Managed rules
- Overview
- Deploy in the dashboard
- Deploy via API
- Deploy using Terraform
- Troubleshooting
- Create exceptions
- Log the payload of matched rules
- Additional tools
- Account-level configuration
- Overview
- Custom rulesets
- Rate limiting rulesets
- Analytics
- Security features interoperability
- Reference
- Alerts
- Phases
- Legacy features
- WAF managed rules (previous version)
- Rate Limiting (previous version)
- Firewall rules
- Firewall rules upgrade
- Glossary
Account-level WAF configuration
Note
This feature requires an Enterprise plan.
The account-level Web Application Firewall (WAF) configuration allows you to define a configuration once and apply it to multiple Enterprise zones in your account. Instead of configuring each zone individually, you create rulesets at the account level and use expressions to control which zones and traffic they apply to.
For example, you can deploy a single ruleset that applies to /admin/* URI paths across both example.com and example.net. Rulesets can target all incoming traffic or a specific subset.
At the account level, WAF rules are grouped into rulesets. You can perform the following operations:
- Create and deploy custom rulesets
- Create and deploy rate limiting rulesets
- Deploy managed rulesets
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