Maximizing Security: How to Leverage AWS Firewall Factory for Your Firewalls

Web application firewalls are a vital tool for safeguarding your online assets and securing your applications, regardless of the size of your company. XSS, SQL injection attacks, cross-site scripting (XSS), and other malicious activity are just a few of the many security threats that a web application firewall (WAF) can protect your applications from.

⚡ AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall)📜

AWS WAF, or online Application Firewall, is a firewall service that assists in shielding your online applications from typical bots and web exploits that may impair security, interfere with availability, or use up too much resources. Together, AWS Firewall Manager, AWS Shield, and AWS WAF may be used to provide a complete security solution.

Even when more resources are added, AWS Firewall Manager allows control of safeguards like AWS WAF and Shield Advanced across accounts and resources.

An essential element of security for every online application. It serves as a line of defense between any threats and your application. providing a variety of useful features to reduce recognized hazards, new threats, dangerous actions, and a host of other issues.

⚡ Architecture 📜

Let's quickly review the architecture of the solution. We must first set up the Firewall Manager administrator account in our AWS Organization before we can use Firewall Manager to deploy WAFs to other accounts. We also require a central S3 bucket, which we intend to use for our WAF logs. We might create custom WAF rules by analyzing the logs to identify any false positives. Using Athena to query the S3 bucket is the simplest method to accomplish this.

With ManagedRuleGroups in AWS Managed Rules for AWS WAF, you can begin protecting your applications. It is not necessary to create unique rules in order to defend against common vulnerabilities using this managed service.

Fig 1.1- AWS Firewall Factory

Utilize the S3 log bucket to find faults and make custom rules for false positives after installing your firewall and utilizing ManagedRuleGroups. When you define Rule Statements in your value file during deployment, the solution uses AWS's Check Capacity API to determine the necessary capacity. Rule Groups are linked to WAF, and new Rule Groups are ideally created by padding them to their maximum size using an algorithm.

⚡ AWS Firewall Factory

Using AWS Firewall Manager, you can centrally manage and deploy your Web Application Firewalls at scale with AWS Firewall Factory, an open-source solution. It aligns with AWS best practices, automates your security administration, and can be customized with unique WAF setups.

🎡 Completely automated to consolidate your WAF Management & Deployment: It reduces administrative work, which streamlines the overall process. facilitating your oversight of your WAF across apps and ensuring consistent protection.
💥 Extensive Testing Combined with Detailed Reports: It determines the resilience of your application and accurately detects errors. You may focus on improving the areas where your application is lacking with the help of these insights.
🧮 Automate the Cost Calculation of Your WAF: Your astute helper that transparently surpasses cost projections and links costs to precise security measures. This will improve your budgeting.
💌 Notifications about Managed Rule Group Changes or DDoS Activity: Receive alerts about changes in AWS managed rule groups, including impending new versions and critical security upgrades, or possible DDoS activity against protected resources.
✅ Extra capabilities including logging and centralized dashboards: Immediately guard against any potential threads and abnormalities by keeping an eye on every security occurrence in real time.

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Maximizing Security: How to Leverage AWS Firewall Factory for Your Firewalls