How to dynamically adapt your response to changing threat levels using AWS WAF
Networking & Content Delivery Blog
This article explains how to dynamically adapt your AWS WAF web access control list (web ACL) based on changing threat levels. It introduces a solution that allows you to switch between predefined versions of your web ACL by updating a parameter in AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Overview of the solution architecture
- Step-by-step instructions to deploy and test the solution
- Example of defining three threat level versions of a web ACL
- How to automate switching between versions based on metrics or events
- Cleanup steps to remove the deployed resources
- Conclusion highlighting the benefits of the solution
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