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Attack sample protected using WAF

Akamai

Kona Site Defender: Kona Site Defender is designed to improve the security posture of the Customer’s Sites and Applications, and reduce the likelihood and impact of security events by mitigating attacks in the Akamai network prior to reaching the Customer’s origin infrastructure. Kona Site Defender includes configurable functionality designed to help protect Customer Sites by reducing the risk and impact of attacks at the network and application layers. Kona Site Defender provides rate control protections to mitigate the risk of Denial of Service and Distributed Denial of Service attacks as well as common attack methodologies such as SQL Injection, Cross-Site Scripting, Trojan backdoors, and malicious bots. Kona Site Defender provides tools that enable the definition and enforcement of security policies specific to client IP, HTTP method and other request parameters. Kona Site Defender is also designed to provide protection from burst charges associated with unexpected or malicious traffic spikes. Kona Site Defender includes Kona Web Application Firewall, Site Shield, Site Failover, Access Control, Security Monitor, Compliance Management and DDoS Fee Protection

References

Amazon White Paper- https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/DDoS_White_Paper_June2015.pdf