mod security

ModSecurity supplies an array of request filtering and other security features to the Apache HTTP Server, IIS and NGINX. ModSecurity is a web application layer firewall. ModSecurity is free software released under the Apache license 2.0.

Reviews

On February 13, 2013, a comparative penetration testing analysis report was published by Zero Science Lab, showing that ModSecurity is more effective than CloudFlare and Incapsula, but it has more false positives than Incapsula.^[1][2]

External links

• mod_security project home page
• Linux Mod Security Introduction and Install guide

References