ModSecurity is a highly effective web application layer firewall for Apache web servers. It monitors the entire HTTP traffic to a website without affecting its overall performance and if it detects an intrusion attempt, it blocks it. The firewall also keeps a more thorough log for the site visitors than any web server does, so you will manage to monitor what is going on with your sites much better than if you rely simply on standard logs. ModSecurity employs security rules based on which it stops attacks. For instance, it detects if anyone is attempting to log in to the administration area of a specific script multiple times or if a request is sent to execute a file with a particular command. In such cases these attempts trigger the corresponding rules and the firewall program hinders the attempts immediately, and then records comprehensive information about them within its logs. ModSecurity is among the most effective software firewalls available and it can protect your web applications against a huge number of threats and vulnerabilities, particularly if you don’t update them or their plugins often.

ModSecurity in Cloud Website Hosting

ModSecurity comes by default with all cloud website hosting solutions which we supply and it will be switched on automatically for any domain or subdomain you add/create in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The firewall has 3 different modes, so you can switch on and deactivate it with just a mouse click or set it to detection mode, so it'll maintain a log of all attacks, but it'll not do anything to prevent them. The log for each of your websites will feature comprehensive info such as the nature of the attack, where it came from, what action was taken by ModSecurity, etcetera. The firewall rules that we use are regularly updated and incorporate both commercial ones we get from a third-party security firm and custom ones that our system admins include in case that they detect a new kind of attacks. This way, the Internet sites you host here will be much more secure with no action needed on your end.