This article was originally published on AI Study Room . For the full version with working code examples and related articles, visit the original post. WAF Deployment Patterns WAF Deployment Patterns WAF Deployment Patterns WAF Deployment Patterns WAF Deployment Patterns WAF Deployment Patterns WAF Deployment Patterns WAF Deployment Patterns WAF Deployment Patterns WAF Overview A Web Application Firewall (WAF) filters and monitors HTTP traffic between web applications and the internet. It protects against common attacks like SQL injection, XSS, and CSRF. Inline WAF Deployment The WAF sits directly in the request path: ModSecurity configuration SecRuleEngine On SecRequestBodyAccess On SecResponseBodyAccess On SQL Injection prevention SecRule REQUEST_COOKIES|REQUEST_COOKIES_NAMES|ARGS_NAMES|ARGS|XML:/* \ "/((\%27)|(\'))\s*((\%6F)|o|(\%4F))((\%72)|r|(\%52))/ix" \ "id:'981173',\ phase:2,\ deny,\ status:403,\ msg:'SQL Injection Attack'" XSS prevention SecRule ARGS "@detectXSS" \ "id:'958056',\ phase:2,\ deny,\…