Web Application Firewall

A cloud-native web application firewall (WAF) service that provides powerful protection for web apps.

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2/12/2026
Azure governance at scale is complex. Security teams manually review many resource types across multiple subscriptions. Finance can't track costs without tags. Compliance teams spend days...
2/3/2026
Application Gateway Web Application Firewall (WAF) v2 now supports additional rate‑limiting GroupBy options based on the X‑Forwarded‑For (XFF) HTTP header. This enables customers running...
2/3/2026
Introduction Cloud-native applications often support critical business functions and are expected to stay available even when parts of the platform fail. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) already...
2/3/2026
A large enterprise customer adopting AI at scale typically needs three non‑negotiables in its AI foundation: End‑to‑end tenant isolation across network, identity, compute, and data Secure,...
2/2/2026
Announcing the general availability of Default Rule Set (DRS) 2.2 for Web Application Firewall on Azure Application Gateway.The Azure-managed DRS provides active protection against common web...
1/28/2026
If you operate Kubernetes at scale, you've felt it: "Ingress YAML sprawl", annotation archaeology, and the creeping sense that your edge configuration is one upstream change away from becoming...
11/28/2025
This sample application demonstrates how to implement various AI scenarios on Azure App Service using Azure AI Foundry. It provides production-ready code that you can integrate into your existing...
11/19/2025
Superior capacity, highest entity limits, unlimited included calls, and the most comprehensive set of features set the Premium v2 tier apart from other API Management tiers. Customers rely on the...
11/18/2025
Announcing the public preview of the HTTP DDoS Ruleset for Application Gateway WAF v2. HTTP-layer DDoS attacks remain a leading cause of application downtime, and traditional static controls...
11/18/2025
Announcing a new mTLS enhancement in Azure Application Gateway for backend applications that perform client certificate and authorization header validation at the backend while still requiring...
11/11/2025
Announcing the general availability of JavaScript (JS) challenge for Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) with Azure Front Door To strengthen bot mitigation strategies, Azure WAF now introduces...
11/10/2025
Announcing Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) support for Azure Application Gateway for Containers is now generally available. Application Gateway for Containers is the next evolution of...
10/28/2025
Announcing the General Availability of CAPTCHA for Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) with Azure Front Door.Modern web applications face evolving threats, including bots, web scrapers, and...
10/23/2025
Why Azure Local? Azure Local extends Azure to customer-owned infrastructure, enabling local execution of modern and traditional applications across distributed on-premises or edge locations....
10/22/2025
Let’s pick up from where we left off in the previous post — Selecting the Right Agentic Solution on Azure - Part 1. Earlier, we explored a decision tree to help identify the most suitable Azure...
10/20/2025
Azure Application Gateway introduces two new PowerShell scripts to simplify migration from V1 (Standard or WAF) to V2 (Standard_V2 or WAF_V2) services. As V1 SKUs’ is scheduled to retire by...
10/10/2025
Introduction As organizations across industries race to integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) into their business processes and realize tangible value, one question consistently arises — where...
10/9/2025
  Introduction As organizations across industries race to integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) into their business processes and realize tangible value, one question consistently arises — where...
9/29/2025
In this blog, we’ll cover: Why AI Landing Zones matter. Security threats specific to AI workloads. Mapping Azure security services into AI Landing Zone design areas. A reference architecture...
9/25/2025
  This architecture diagram illustrates a Microsoft Azure AI Landing Zone Pattern — a scalable, secure, and well-governed framework for deploying AI workloads across multiple subscriptions in an...