Re:Recon and Attack Vectors from My Logs
by nickjj on Sunday October 02, 2022 @09:37AM
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> I'm not seeing the immediate value here.
The parent comment might have been coming at it from the angle of having a firewall in front of your web app is helpful because it blocks a whole bunch of bad actor traffic from ever touching your app's servers.
Of which I would agree with too. A decently popular site could end up having at least 10% of its traffic being malicious. Let your app servers worry about the legit traffic and filter the rest beforehand.
The parent comment might have been coming at it from the angle of having a firewall in front of your web app is helpful because it blocks a whole bunch of bad actor traffic from ever touching your app's servers.
Of which I would agree with too. A decently popular site could end up having at least 10% of its traffic being malicious. Let your app servers worry about the legit traffic and filter the rest beforehand.