This announcement applies to Pure instances hosted by Elsevier.
Elsevier is introducing Cloudflare WAF (Web Application Firewall) of your hosted Pure starting from April 2024. WAF is great because it can provide multiple benefits for Pure security and performance.
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Increase protection of sensitive data
such as customer records and prevent leakage. WAF can filter out malicious requests that try to steal or tamper with your data.
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Increase mitigation of threats before they reach Pure
WAF can block malicious traffic and requests that try to exploit vulnerabilities undiscovered by the Pure team, such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting, or denial-of-service attacks.
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Increase protection against malicious applications and DDOS attacks by specifically checking HTTP and network requests.
WAF can inspect the content and parameters of each HTTP request and response and apply granular rules and policies to allow or deny access based on various criteria, such as source IP, user agent, cookie, header, method, or payload. This change requires no action by Pure customers and will be applied gradually during February 2024.
Written by Morten de Melo Lyng on January 06, 2024
Updated at April 24, 2024