Basic Principals of Use
To be able to use vWAF efficiently and to achieve a maximum increase in the security of your web applications, it’s vital to understand the underlying principles by which vWAF is structured and controlled.
This includes:
- logging in (see Starting Administration)
- information and control elements on the user interface (see Layout of the Administration Interface)
- the availability of features according to your user group (see Available Features )
- the different modes in which a ruleset can operate (see Detection Mode, Protection Mode)
- the availability of instant protection with minimum configuration effort (see Baseline Protection)
- the setup of applications and the mapping of requests to a particular application and thus to a particular ruleset (see Application Mapping, Paths, Preconditions)
- the option of inheriting properties and of setting up rules that are specific to a particular path (see Application Mapping, Paths, Preconditions)and Types of Handlers and Attribute Inheritance)
- the ability to distribute areas of responsibility across multiple persons (see Organizational Integration)
- the internal processing order (see How Blacklists, Whitelists, and Graylists Are Processed)
- saving and implementing changes (see When Changes Are Saved and Become Active).