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How to mitigate bad reputation traffic with Haltdos WAF?

Problem Statement

The user requires to mitigate the bad reputation traffic by either dropping or sending challenge to the incoming requests from anonymous IP, suspicious IP or TOR network.

Solution

The user can make use of Haltdos WAF bot protection features.

1. First, log into the haltdos management console.

Stacks

2. Go to Stack > WAF > Listener > Profile > Bot Protection

Bot Protection

3. For incoming bad reputation traffic, traffic coming from suspicious IP addresses and TOR network, the user can select the action to be performed, like, Send Challenge and Drop.

Configure the action

4. Click on save changes to deploy the configuration on the Haltdos WAF.