One of the most effective tools to monitor your cloud security is through Amazon’s Web Application Firewall that ‘gives you control over which traffic to allow or block to your web applications by defining customizable web security rules.’ Media Temple deploys the AWS WAF via its Managed Cloud offering in order to keep your site safe, reduce potential downtime and protect your customers. Our WAF setup is setup to block 10 universal attacks, and can also be extended to a full custom rule set which will..Prevent hacks and vulnerability exploits Stop brute force attempts on site login pages Protect against the OWASP Top 10 and more Mitigate Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks We also make certain that WAF is seamlessly integrated with your Amazon CloudFront so that all your rules run in AWS CloudFront Edge locations that are closest to your clients, as well as the ability to block or blacklist full subnets of IPs.

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