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Best Practices for Configuring a Web Application Firewall

ID: 42efd2a4-a65d-5e37-b9ff-ca59e674a09e

STIX ID: report--42efd2a4-a65d-5e37-b9ff-ca59e674a09e

Feed Name: SecurityScorecard Blog

Date Published: 2025-08-22

Date Updated: 2026-04-29

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**Executive summary:** This article explains why WAFs matter in 2025 and summarizes practical best practices — including customizing WAF policies, defending against bots and rate-based attacks, integrating WAF logs with SIEM and monitoring tools, and validating/updating WAF effectiveness — to reduce web-application exploitation and improve supply-chain resilience.

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