Traditional firewall
Working at the network layer, filtering traffic based on IP and ports. Cannot recognize application layer attacks.
WAF
Working at the application layer, checking HTTP request content, identifying SQL injection, XSS and other attacks.
Common products
Cloud WAF: Alibaba Cloud WAF, AWS WAF. Open source WAF: ModSecurity, Naxsi.
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