Ironbee

IronBee: Open Source Web Application Firewall

IronBee protects web applications by inspecting HTTP traffic at the application layer, building an understanding of normal application behavior, and blocking attacks and suspicious activity.

What is Ironbee?

IronBee is an open source web application firewall (WAF) designed to protect web applications from common attacks such as cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection. It is developed by the Open Information Security Foundation (OISF).

IronBee works by analyzing HTTP traffic between a client and web server at the application layer. It builds an understanding of normal application behavior and uses threat models and signatures to detect anomalies and block attacks in real-time before they reach the web application.

As an open source WAF, IronBee can be customized and extended as needed. It leverages libHTP for parsing HTTP requests which supports anomaly detection and analysis. IronBee is written in C for high performance and can be deployed as a reverse proxy, web server module, or API.

Key features of IronBee include:

• Real-time attack protection for SQLi, XSS, command injection, etc.
• Customizable threat modeling to detect application-specific attacks
• Support for virtual patching of web app vulnerabilities
• High performance C implementation suitable for production deployments
• Built-in integration with web servers like Apache and IIS
• Extensive logging for security analytics and forensics

With robust threat detection and flexible deployment options, IronBee is a capable open source WAF suitable for securing websites and web applications from modern attacks.

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