API Discovery

This feature is available for the following WAF packages: Available packages: Essentials Professional Enterprise   Overview API Discovery allows for the automatic detection of potential APIs, in addition to providing a simpler onboarding to AP...
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View and Understand DDoS Analytics

Overview StackPath's Control Portal and API provide users with detailed analytics related to any DDoS attack that impacts a WAF site. While the WAF remains an effective tool that mitigates any current and future attacks, users also have the abilit...
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IP Spotlight

  This feature is available for the following WAF packages: Available packages: Essentials Professional Enterprise   Overview IP Spotlight is a threat analytics tool that allows you to expose and inspect information about a specific IP address...
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Custom Pages

This feature is available for the following WAF packages Available packages: Essentials Professional Enterprise   Overview Custom Pages are a feature of our Professional and Enterprise WAF Packages that allow you to create custom WAF sanction ...
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Security Insights

This feature is available for the following WAF packages: Available packages: Essentials Professional Enterprise   Overview StackPath provides WAF Professional and Enterprise customers with enhanced visibility into potential security threats t...
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Advanced Rules

This feature is customizable for the following WAF packages: Essentials Professional Enterprise   Overview StackPath provides WAF Enterprise customers with the ability to create, edit and manage their own advanced custom rules. Much like our ...
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Advanced Rules | Rate Limitation

Overview The idea of the rate limitation feature is to limit the number of specific requests within a specific period. StackPath’s unique implementation of rate limitation is that it is a conditioning segment within a rule and it can be embedded w...
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Sanction Screens

Overview You can use this document to learn about the different WAF-related sanction screens that your visitors may see when they attempt to access your site. These screens will display based on the triggered rule. For customers who have upgraded ...
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Tag Generating Rules

  This feature is available for the following WAF packages: Available packages: Essentials Professional Enterprise Overview As part of the WAF rules editor, users are able to create custom rules revolving around tags to help further filter in...
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Tag Generating Rules | API Protection Smart Tags

Overview API Protection Smart Tags are one of the many key offerings that contribute to our security platform's status as a WAAP. Listed below are a few things you can do with API protection Smart Tags. API-Level Authorization A WAF rule can be c...
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WAF Rules

Overview StackPath's WAF rules allow you to define how web requests are inspected and what actions are taken when a request matches the defined criteria. Each rule requires a top-level statement, and might contain nested statements, depending on t...
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Tag Generating Rules | Reserved Tags (Magic Tags)

Overview Reserved tags, or magic tags, are pre-defined tags that trigger specific actions. Unlike user defined tags, reserved tags are not completely customizable, however, they do play a key role in tag generating rules. Below are some use cases ...
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Tag Based Rules | Rule Tags and Descriptions

Overview StackPath's WAF allows for Tag Based custom rules to sanction requests based on specific tags provided by StackPath. Tag Based rules can be defined via the Portal UI or through an API call. For more information on how to create a Tag Base...
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L7 DDoS Protection

Overview The StackPath WAF offers protection against Application Layer (Layer 7) DDoS. Layer 7 attacks are often performed in bursts and are not always volumetric in nature. The WAF uses multiple techniques to detect and mitigate incoming attacks....
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