Profiles

Create different security profiles for different sub-sections of your website

Overview

Profiles is the default profile that contains most commonly used web application settings served through a virtual service. For customizing a profile, it is highly recommended to create a new profile instead of editing the default profile.

Profile

How to Use:

1. Go to WAF > Listeners > Profiles

2. Click Add Profile.

3. Configure your settings.

4. Click Save Changes.

Parameters	Accepted Values	Default
Profile Name	String	Blank
Profile Priority	Integer	0
Application Type	Drop Down	Website
Protocol	Not Changeable	HTTP
Countries	String	Blank
URL	String	Blank
Source IP Prefix	Integer	Blank
Destination IP Prefix	Integer	Blank
Source Ports	Integer	Blank
Destination Ports	Integer	Blank

Description

Profile Name

This option allows user to specify a user-friendly name of security profile. By default, a profile with 'Default' name is already created upon adding a listener.

Profile Priority

This option provides priotize feature for deciding which profile want to use first for matching request and taking action.

Application Type

This option specifies type of application ( i.e. website or web service or web socket) want to select. A website is defined as a collection of web pages and related content that is identified by a common domain name whereas, a web service is a standardized medium to propagate communication between the client and server applications. And a web socket is a duplex protocol used mainly in the client-server communication channel.

Protocol

This option specify the service type for the subdomain i.e. HTTP, TCP, UDP. Based on the protocol of the backend application, the listener/subdomain can be created with any of the three protocols.

Users can not change the Protocol type as it was set at the time of the creation of listener.

Countries

This option specify countries from where request is coming should match with this profile.

URI Pattern

This option specify the URI pattern from where request sent should match with this profile.

IP Prefixes

This option specify the destination IP Prefixes for requests coming will be matched with this profile.

Source IP Prefix

This option specify the source IP Prefixes for the requests coming will be matched with this profile.

Destination IP Prefix

This option specify the destination IP Prefixes for requests coming will be matched with this profile.

Source Ports

This option specify the source port Prefixes where requests coming will be matched with this profile.

Destination Ports

This option specify the destination port Prefixes where requests coming will be matched with this profile.

References

This drop-down is used to clone an existing profile with the same configuration to a new profile.

Note: User can clone existing profile with the same configuration to a new profile on the new user-specified URI.

Following configurations are present under Security Profile.