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Website Protection: An Evaluation of the Web Application Firewall

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  • Gabriela Elizabeth Cárdenas Rosero
  • Cathy Pamela Guevara Vega
  • Pablo Landeta-López

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Introduction: In recent years, a significant increase in attacks targeting web applications has been observed. These attacks compromise application integrity, disrupt services, and have devastating consequences regarding data loss, reputational damage, and financial costs. Objective: The objective was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Web Application Firewall (WAF) using the OWASP methodology to detect and neutralize attacks on the Universidad Técnica del Norte’s web server. Results: The results were to categorize the main types of attacks detected by the WAF, analyze the most frequent attacks blocked by the firewall, and implement an additional layer of security on the web server. Conclusions: It was concluded that the WAF detects suspicious or potentially malicious activity in web traffic but fails to identify all cyber threats comprehensively. In addition, the WAF report, broken down each month with the number of frequent attack events identified as malicious, is a crucial tool for the web administrator.

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Handle: RePEc:dbk:datame:v:4:y:2025:i::p:190:id:1056294dm2025190
DOI: 10.56294/dm2025190
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