NS-6 Deploy web application firewall
Deploy a web application firewall in front of web applications and APIs and configure rules appropriate to the application-layer attacks those endpoints face.
4
artefacts
1
held by a system
1
at each review
moderate
to go live
Document repository
where the evidence lives
teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review
system holds itEvidence a system already holds
- Rule set and managed rule version in use · Document repository
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Record of rules moved from detection to prevention mode · Document repository
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- WAF deployment inventory covering all public web and API endpoints · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Tuning and exclusion register · Policy repository / GRC workspace
First move
Start with the 1 of 4 artefacts that already live in a system (Document repository); keep the periodic reviews but log each one as a dated record with a named reviewer.
Common gaps auditors find
- WAF left in detection-only mode indefinitely
- endpoints published that bypass the WAF
- managed rule sets never updated
Do this for your whole sheet
Paste the rows you run your controls from and get this mapping for every control at once, with the periodic-review ones flagged and a first move per row. No account for the first run.
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