

It is the modification of a cookie to gain unauthorized information about the user for purposes such as identity theft. WAFs can help prevent the following attacks: This WAF also allows proactive threat detection, enables real-time app security insights and visibility and ensures compliance (GDPR, HIPAA and PCI), all the while providing centralized application security across multi-cloud, hybrid-cloud or on-premise application environments. They save time on the manual tuning of security software or hardware on their systems. The administrators save a lot of time using the flexibility and customization power of this WAF. Cloud-based WAF services offer more responsive, elastic, and customizable application security options based on predefined security policies that scale and react automatically to threats per application or tenant.

A cloud WAF is also known as a cloud-based WAF or cloud-native WAF and it provides web application security more cost-efficiently than traditional appliance-based web application firewalls while offering some distinguished advantages.
