A Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate is digitally signed and issued by a trusted certificate authority (CA) to an organization for authentication of server identities and encryption of data in transit. Therefore, SSL certificates can protect user privacy and information security. For a website with an SSL certificate issued by...
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NSFOCUS WAF Website Certificate Generation Method
To protect HTTPS websites, the certificate used by these websites needs to be uploaded to NSFOCUS WAF. These certificates may be in different formats, such as .pfx, .crt, and .pem. NSFOCUS WAF, however, supports .cer certificates only. Therefore, the customer needs to extract the certificate information and private key from...
NIPS V5.6R10 Rule Types
NIPS V5.6R10 has five types of rules to detect DDoS attacks, local privilege elevation, information gathering, suspicious network behaviors, and network monitoring events, respectively. They are described as follows. 1. Information gathering Information gathering is the first step of network intrusion. Attackers use various methods to scan and probe target...
NTA Traffic Troubleshooting
Common Problems (1) Choose Monitor > Router, and find that no data is displayed or the router traffic data size is greatly different from that in the real situation.(2) The traffic of some region IP addresses is not monitored.(3) Before upgrading to NTA V4.5R90F02SP06, the router can monitor traffic data,...
Introduction to NSFOCUS WAF Web Decoding Function
WAF web decoding function can decode base64-encoded data. After that, WAF performs attack detection by identifying attack signatures and provides prevention. The web decoding function is configured per website. Web Decoding Configuration Step 1. Choose Security Management > Website Protection, select a website group, click Web Decoding, and then click...
New Feature – Protection Group-Specific NTI of ADS V4.5R90F04
Function Description This function will be released on ADS Version 4.5R90F04 in Q1 2023. The group-specific NTI is supported in ADS V4.5R90F04 as a supplement to the existing protection method.Before using this function, choose Advanced > NTI > NTI Configuration and set Enable to Yes. The group-specific NTI policy supports...
