Applicative firewall
Applicative firewall operate at the layer 7 of the OSI model. It's designed to protect application or services from attacks. For instance, they could be set up to protect
- a database from SQL Injection (SQLi)
- a website from XSS
- ...
Web Application Firewalls (WAF) are a category of application firewall focused on attacks against web applications such as XSS or SQLi.
➡️ ModSecurity (6.3k ⭐) is an open-source WAF.
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Stuff that I found, but never read/used yet.