Step-by-step guide to installing WAF policy

Created by Juan Manuel Libera Frómeta, Modified on Tue, 07 Feb 2023 at 11:38 AM by Juan Manuel Libera Frómeta

Here is a step-by-step guide for installing WAF policy

1. Access the Microsoft Azure portal and in the search engine at the top of the screen, search for and select Web Application Firewall (WAF) policy.

2. On the Basics tab of the Create WAF policy page, type or select the following information and accept the defaults for the rest of the configuration:



Configuración

Value

Directive of (Policy for)

Select WAF global (Front Door) .

Subscription

Select your Azure subscription.

Resource group

Select the name of the Front Door resource group.

Name of the board (Policy Name)

Type a unique name for the WAF policy.

Directive Status

Set to Enabled.


  • Localtion East US 2
  • Policy mode, Select Prevention


3. In Managed rules we must configure the same rules that are active in production,

in this case we have 3 rules unchecked in the Request-Application-Attack-SQLI policy

  • Detects basic SQL authentication bypass attempts 1/3
  • Detects basic SQL authentication bypass attempts 2/3
  • Detects basic SQL authentication bypass attempts 3/3

Which should be disabled in this configuration as well.


4. In Policy settings the default values are left as follows



5. Under Association select + Associate a Front Door profile, enter the following settings and select Add:

No tag is made to this policy.


6. In Review+create we click on Create



7. Realice pruebas para asegurarse de que el WAF está funcionando correctamente.

 

8. Monitoree el WAF de manera regular para detectar y corregir cualquier problema.

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