What I like about Ivan Ristić’s ModSecurity Book is the wide approach it takes. The multipurpose nature of ModSecurity makes it hard to overview all the areas and all the functionality. But Ivan did a very good job providing a gentle introduction to all these areas. Hence, it proved to be the standard book for […]
The new Core Rule Set 3.0 (CRS3) release simplifies ModSecurity/Drupal integration tremendously. Here is a guide aimed at the Drupal community to learn how to work with ModSecurity. This guide and the rule file it is based on currently covers Drupal Core. Modules / Plugins are not yet supported. But count on the Drupal community […]
Today, we are releasing the next tutorial in our Apache / ModSecurity series: Extending and Analyzing the Access Log “What’s the big deal?” I hear you say. I admit, it may sound a bit boring, but log files are primordial. Configuring the right logfile makes the difference between ignorance and insight into you server. There […]
The release of the OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set 3.0 is drawing closer and closer. This made me think about a way to introduce new users to ModSecurity and the Core Rules. Despite online documentation and blog posts and google and stack overflow and what not: There is no one stop place to learn it […]
This is one for the pen-testers. We all know it’s fairly simple to fingerprint a webserver and fingerprinting a web application firewall like ModSecurity is probably even easier. It takes a bit of knowledge though and if you want to drill down on the ruleset, you should now the ruleset a bit. So here is […]
